MW Then the meaning of Earth in her children behold:Glad eyes, frank hands, and a fellowship real:And laughter on lips, as the birds’ outburstAt the flooding of light. No robbery thenThe feast, nor a robber’s abode the home,For a furnished…
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Savvy
MW “Everybody make medicine,” he said lightly. And when I asked him if he were himself a good practitioner–“No savvy,” he replied, more lightly still. At length the leaves burst in a flame, which he continued to feed; a thick,…
Deliquescent
“The stalwart ignorance of it! Little Latin and less Greek even Ben Jonson allowed our William, and manifestly he was fed on Tudor translations. And the illiteracy of Michael Angelo is just an inspiration of Chamberlain’s. He knows his readers.…
Brusque
MW At the name of Haldin falling from the rapid and energetic lips of the woman revolutionist, Razumov had the usual brusque consciousness of the irrevocable. But in all the months which had passed over his head he had become…
Hare
MW But to make vp my tale,She breweth noppy ale,And maketh therof port saleTo trauellars, to tynkers,To sweters, to swynkers,And all good ale drynkers,That wyll nothynge spare,But drynke tyll they stareAnd brynge themselfe bare,With, Now away the mare, And let…
Pasch
pasch, n.Forms: Old English pasca, late Old English–Middle English paschesOrigin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly a borrowing from French. Etymons: Latin pascha; French pasche.Etymology: Originally < post-classical Latin paschaNow archaic and historical. Passover; the Passover feast.OE—2001(Show…
Brummagem
But a day of reckoning, he stated crescendo with no uncertain voice, thoroughly monopolising all the conversation, was in store for mighty England, despite her power of pelf on account of her crimes. There would be a fall and the…
Pertain: To Fantasy pertains to choose
MW To Fantasy pertains to choose.All this I know : for FantasyFirst unto love did me induce ;But yet I know as steadfastly,That if love have no faster knot,So nice a choice slips suddenly ; It lasteth not.It lasteth not,…
Foist: Put not your foists upon me; I shall scent them
MW No! Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change,Thy pyramids built up with newer mightTo me are nothing novel, nothing strange,They are but dressings Of a former sight:Our dates are brief, and therefore we admire,What thou dost foist…
Queach
One of the earliest examples of usage cited in the OED is in Golding’s translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses: 1565 A. Golding tr. Ovid Fyrst Fower Bks. Metamorphosis i. f. 2v Their houses were the thyckes, And bushie queaches. from “queach,…