The American Encyclopaedic Dictionary: A ... Work of Reference to the English Language Defining Over 250,000 Words ... Containing Over One Hundred Maps and Diagrams and Nearly Four Thousand Illustrations, Band 2R.S. Peale and J.A. Hill, 1897 |
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... Chaucer : Canterbury Tales , 12,785 . " Alle these armes that ther weren , That they thus on her cotes beren , For hyt to me were impossible ; Men myghte make of hem a bible , Twenty foote thykke I trowe . " Chaucer : House of Fame , bk ...
... Chaucer : Canterbury Tales , 12,785 . " Alle these armes that ther weren , That they thus on her cotes beren , For hyt to me were impossible ; Men myghte make of hem a bible , Twenty foote thykke I trowe . " Chaucer : House of Fame , bk ...
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... ( Chaucer : Man of Lawes Tale ; Clarendon Press Series , p . 159. ) * bicchid - bones , bicched - bones , * byched , * bicchel - bones , pl . Dice . " This fruyt cometh of the bicchid - boones tuo , Forswering , ire , falsnes , homicide ...
... ( Chaucer : Man of Lawes Tale ; Clarendon Press Series , p . 159. ) * bicchid - bones , bicched - bones , * byched , * bicchel - bones , pl . Dice . " This fruyt cometh of the bicchid - boones tuo , Forswering , ire , falsnes , homicide ...
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... Chaucer : Canterbury Tales , 8,235-6 . To bid beads or bedes : ( 1 ) Originally : To pray prayers with or without a rosary to count them upon . ( 2 ) Subsequently : To count the beads of a rosary , each bead dropped passing for a prayer ...
... Chaucer : Canterbury Tales , 8,235-6 . To bid beads or bedes : ( 1 ) Originally : To pray prayers with or without a rosary to count them upon . ( 2 ) Subsequently : To count the beads of a rosary , each bead dropped passing for a prayer ...
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... Chaucer , C. T. , 679 , & c . ) bifon ( prep . bi - fangen , bi - fongen ) = to encompass . ] * bi - făng - en ( pret . bifeng , bivonge ) , v . t . [ A. S. To take about . ( Layamon , 829. ) ( Stratmann . ) bi - fä r - i - oùs , a ...
... Chaucer , C. T. , 679 , & c . ) bifon ( prep . bi - fangen , bi - fongen ) = to encompass . ] * bi - făng - en ( pret . bifeng , bivonge ) , v . t . [ A. S. To take about . ( Layamon , 829. ) ( Stratmann . ) bi - fä r - i - oùs , a ...
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... ( Chaucer . ) big - ot , s . & a . [ In Dan . † bigot ( s . ) ; Ger . bigott ( a . ) ; Fr. bigot ( the modern sense of the word not arising till the fifteenth century ) ; Low Lat . bigoti , A word for which a superfluity of etymologies ...
... ( Chaucer . ) big - ot , s . & a . [ In Dan . † bigot ( s . ) ; Ger . bigott ( a . ) ; Fr. bigot ( the modern sense of the word not arising till the fifteenth century ) ; Low Lat . bigoti , A word for which a superfluity of etymologies ...
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