A growing assortment of words and definitions used in the Early Modern era. See the Guide for more information.
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Oenomel
A drink, wine mixed with honey. Favored of the ancient Greeks; oinos, wine + meli, honey. Used figuraatively, as by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (WINE OF CYPRESS; 1844) : Those memories . , . Make a better oenomel.
Reboation
A rebellowing echo. Latin re, again + boare, boatum, to bellow. Hence reboant, loudly re-echoing. Elizabeth Barrett Browning in A VISION OF POETS (1844) speaks of Spiritual thunders . . . Crushing their echoes reboant With their own wheels.
Rouncy
A horse, especially one for riding. A common medieval form, its origin unknown. In English 14th into the 16th century; revived in the 19th, as in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's ARISTOPHANES' APOLOGY (1875): Racehorse sired, not rouncy born. Also see Rounce robble hobble.
