A glossary and etymological dictionary of obsolete and uncommon wordsW. Pickering, 1832 |
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... words blood bolter'd may be adduced , among others , to prove the fact . The definition of WARBURTON , adopted by MALONE , has no analogy with the true meaning of the word bolter , which is purely local and in use at the present day ...
... words blood bolter'd may be adduced , among others , to prove the fact . The definition of WARBURTON , adopted by MALONE , has no analogy with the true meaning of the word bolter , which is purely local and in use at the present day ...
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... word spousebreach , which , in the time of Wickliffe , was applied to this crime , is much more significant than the word adopted from the French . ADVOUTRESSE ( F. ) , an adulteress . And thou art the deliverer of all innocents , Thou ...
... word spousebreach , which , in the time of Wickliffe , was applied to this crime , is much more significant than the word adopted from the French . ADVOUTRESSE ( F. ) , an adulteress . And thou art the deliverer of all innocents , Thou ...
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... word is ad- mitted to be of doubtful etymology ; some derive it from the Saxon gangan , to go ; Dr. Johnson , from the low French phrase agogo ; as , ils vivent agogo , " they live to their wish ; " but this definition of the word does ...
... word is ad- mitted to be of doubtful etymology ; some derive it from the Saxon gangan , to go ; Dr. Johnson , from the low French phrase agogo ; as , ils vivent agogo , " they live to their wish ; " but this definition of the word does ...
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... word derived from archery ; literally , to consent to or approve of any thing . O Brutus , speak ! O say , Servilius ! Why cry you ayme ! and see us used thus . O. P. CORNELIA . AIREN ( Ger . ey ) , an egg . This word is sometimes spelt ...
... word derived from archery ; literally , to consent to or approve of any thing . O Brutus , speak ! O say , Servilius ! Why cry you ayme ! and see us used thus . O. P. CORNELIA . AIREN ( Ger . ey ) , an egg . This word is sometimes spelt ...
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... word to earnest money given to bind any bargain of whatever na- ture . Your proffer of luve's an airle penny , My tocher's the bargain . Scor's MUSEUM . AIRT , a point of the compass , a quarter of the heavens . This word is chiefly ...
... word to earnest money given to bind any bargain of whatever na- ture . Your proffer of luve's an airle penny , My tocher's the bargain . Scor's MUSEUM . AIRT , a point of the compass , a quarter of the heavens . This word is chiefly ...
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Términos y frases comunes
ALISAUNDRE ancient anon arms called CHAUCER'S KNIGHT'S TALE CHAUCER'S MERCHANT'S TALE CHAUCER'S MILLER'S TALE CHAUCER'S REVE'S TALE CHAUCER'S ROM CHAUCER'S SOMPNOUR'S TALE cloth CŒUR DE LION colour CORIOLANUS corruption CRESS custom DAMON AND PYTHIAS denote derived doth EASTWARD HOE etymology fair female fool formerly French gold GOWER'S grete GURTON'S NEEDLE GUY OF GISBORNE HAMLET hath head hence HONEST WHORE HOOD AND GUY horse HUDIBRAS IBID John JONSON'S king kyng lady LEAR lord LYDGATE'S MACBETH meaning MEAS MERCHANT'S TALE MERRY WIVES MILTON'S modern word NIGHT'S DREAM O. P. GAM O. P. THE FOUR O. P. THE HONEST O. P. THE SPANISH OTHELLO PARDONER'S TALE person play PLOWMAN'S PLOWMAN'S TALE QUEEN RICH ROSE sense SEVEN SAGES Shakspeare shew SHIPMAN'S TALE SHREW signify song spelt SPENSER'S F sword TEMPEST thee thing thou TROI TWELFTH NIGHT wine WINTER'S TALE WIVES OF WINDSOR worn
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Página 41 - All murder'd : for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Página 260 - What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes! Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red.
Página 98 - I'll observe his looks; I'll tent him to the quick: if he but blench, I know my course.
Página 65 - Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers ; I had rather hear a brazen canstick turn'd, Or a dry wheel grate on the axle-tree ; And that would set my teeth nothing on edge, Nothing so much as mincing poetry : 'Tis like the forc'd gait of a shuffling nag.
Página 239 - On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object: can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt?
Página 200 - In following him, I follow but myself; Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty, But seeming so, for my peculiar end : For when my outward action doth demonstrate The native act and figure of my heart In compliment extern, 'tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at : I am not what I am.
Página 170 - Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note.
Página 133 - Honour's a lease for lives to come, And cannot be extended from The legal tenant : 'tis a chattel Not to be forfeited in battle. If he that in the field is slain Be in the bed of honour lain, He that is beaten may be said To lie in honour's truckle-bed. For as we see th...
Página 286 - In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets...
Página 17 - ... in England, show us here The mettle of your pasture ; let us swear That you are worth your breeding : which I doubt not; For there is none of you so mean and base, That hath not noble lustre in your eyes. I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,* Straining upon the start. The game's afoot ; Follow your spirit : and, upon this charge, Cry — God for Harry ! England ! and Saint George ! [Exeunt . Alarum, and Chambers go off.