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ambuscado
ambuscado, n. arch. (æmbəˈskeɪdəʊ) Pl. -os, earlier -oes, -o's. [An affected refashioning of ambuscade after Sp. Here Englishmen may have confused the Sp. pa. pple. emboscado ambushed, in estar emboscado to lie in ambush, with the fem. n. emboscada ambuscade; but cf. the series of words in -ado2 for...
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embuscado
† embuˈscado Obs. [var. of ambuscado, in Sp. embuscada: see -ado 2.] An ambuscade.1686 tr. Chardin's Trav. 157 The king of Quiretta having laid considerable Embuscados.
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Harvey, the vowed enemy to all vows and protestations, plucking on with a private slavish submission a general public reconciliation, hath with a cunning ambuscado
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ambuscade
▪ I. ambuscade, n. (ˌæmbəˈskeɪd) Forms: 6 ambuscaid, imboscade, 6– ambuscade. [a. Fr. embuscade, ad. It. imboscata, or Sp. emboscada, Pg. embuscada (= OFr. embuchée), ppl. deriv. of imboscare (Sp. emboscar, Pg. embuscar, Fr. embucher): see ambush v. and -ade1. For spelling with initial a, see ambush...
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ambush
▪ I. ambush, n. (ˈæmbʊʃ) Forms: 5–6 enbusshe, embushe, 6– ambush. Occas. weakened in 4– to abush, 'bush. [a. OFr. embusche, f. vb. embuscher: see ambush v. Nearly equivalent words from the pa. pple. of Fr., Sp., It., are enbuschy, ambuscado, ambuscade, emboscata, imboscata. The change from em- to am...
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-ado
-ado, suffix of ns. 1. a. Sp. or Pg. -ado masc. of pa. pple., as El Dorado the gilded:—L. deaurātus; desperado one out of hope:—desperātus; tornado (Pg.) that which is turned or whirled; renegado one who has re-denied the faith, now renegade. 2. An ignorant sonorous refashioning of ns. in -ade, a. F...
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waylay
waylay, v. (weɪˈleɪ, ˈweɪleɪ) Pa. tense and pple. waylaid (weɪˈleɪd, ˈweɪleɪd). Also 6–7 way-laye, 6–9 way-lay. [f. way n.1 + lay v.1 (where see senses 18 b, c.), after MLG., MDu. wegelâgen (= MHG. and early mod.G. wegelagen, weglagen, superseded in later German by wegelagern), f. wegelage:—OS., OHG...
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nook
▪ I. nook, n. (nʊk) Forms: α. 3–4 nok, 4–6 noke, 5–7 nooke, 6– nook; 6 noque, 4, 6–7 nouke. β. north. and Sc. 5–6 nuk, nwke, 5–7, 9 nuke, 6 nucke (9 nuck); 5 noik, 6 nwik, nuike, 6–7, 9 nuik (9 nuick); 6, 8–9 neuk (9 neuck), newk (6 newke), 9 niuk; 8–9 north. neak. [Of obscure origin; the early exam...
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signal
▪ I. signal, n. (ˈsɪgnəl) [a. F. signal (OF. also seignal, seignau, etc.), = Pg. sinal, Sp. señal, It. segnale, med.L. signāl(e, a Romanic formation on L. signum sign: see -al1 4. Used by Chaucer and Gower, but otherwise evidenced only from the end of the 16th century.] † 1. a. A visible sign; a bad...
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lay
▪ I. lay, n.1 Obs. exc. dial. (leɪ) Forms: α. 1 laᵹu, 3 laȝe; pl. 3 lawes, 4 lauen. β. 3 lei-e, 3, 5 ley, 4 leye, laie, 4–5 laye, 4, 9 (dial.) lay. [OE. laᵹu (oblique cases laᵹe); the β forms may represent either an OE. *læᵹe dat., acc., or gen., or the ON. legi dative, legir plural, of the equivale...
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