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| Lib: This was a common form, with various meanings. (1) From the 8th century; a charm. (2) As a verb. From the 1... | ||||
| Lovertine: Fond of making love. A 17th century coinage, after libertine. Thomas Dekker in THE PATIENT GRISSILL (1603) ... | ||||
| Mealy-mouthed: Soft-spoken; applied to excessive delicacy of speech, prudery, or to hypocrisy, sycophancy; to one that doe... | ||||
| Moll: This is a shortening of Molly, a pet-name for Mary. Since the 17th century, it has been used to mean a pros... | ||||
| Monthly: Madly; as influenced by the moon. An English development like lunatic; Latin luna, the moon. Also moonling,... | ||||
| Palacious: A 17th century form, supplanted by palatial. Thus Thomas Dekker in BRITTANNIA'S HONOR (1628) spoke of faire... | ||||
| Pedlers French: The canting language, the special speech of the beggars, vagabonds, and thieves of Tudor times. It is used,... | ||||
| Quaff: To drink deeply, take a long draught; especially, to drain a cup at a draught. Used since the 16th century;... | ||||
| Rouncival: Heroic (in size, volume); hence applied as noun or adjective to various large things. Also rownseval, rowns... | ||||
| Sperse: A shortened form of disperse, perhaps influenced by Italian sperso; spergere, to scatter. Used in the 16th ... | ||||
| Yerk: (1) To draw stitches tight; to bind tightly. Revived by Walter Scott in THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL (1805)... | ||||
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