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askant, adv. (əˈskænt) Forms: 7 ascant, a-skaunt, 7–9 askaunt, 8– askant. [apparently a later variant of askance q.v., with termination assimilated to asquint or aslant.] 1. = askance 1.1695 Blackmore Pr. Arth. ii. 461 Man's Soul, by this rude Shock from 's Center driv'n, Stands so a-skaunt. 1795 So...
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askanted
† aˈskanted, ppl. a. Obs. rare—1. In 7 eskanted. [f. prec. + -ed.] Turned askant.1576 T. N[ewton] Lemnie's Touchst. Complex. (1633) 221 With eyes sullen, sterne, terrible, glancing aside and eskanted.
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the soldiers she treated, changing their perceptions about her as described in the Illustrated London News: "Perhaps at first the authorities looked askant
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skaunt
skaunt aphetic form of askaunt askant.1791 W. Taylor tr. Lessing's Nathan (1887) 35 This fellow does not follow me for pastime. How skaunt he eyes his hands!
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scaunt
† scaunt, a. Obs. rare—1. [Aphetic form for ascaunt. See askant adv.] Oblique.1741 Betterton's Eng. Stage v. 66 The Contraction of the Lips and the Scaunt Look of the Eyes, expresses the Gesture of a deriding and malicious Person.
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List of English prepositions
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anent (obsolete; rare; regional, Scotland and Yorkshire)
anewst (obsolete)
anunder (regional, Northern England, Ireland, and Scotland)
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askances
▪ I. askance, adv. (əˈskæns) Forms: 6 a scanche, a scance, ascaunce, 6–7 asconce, ascance, 6–8 askaunce, 7 askauns, ascaunse, 6– askance. [Etymology unknown. Wedgwood suggests It. a schiancio ‘bias, slanting, sloping or slopingly, aslope, across, overthwart’ (Baretti), where schiancio is = OFr. escl...
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rustical
rustical, a. and n. (ˈrʌstɪkəl) Also 5–6 rusticalle, 6–7 -all; 6 rustycall. [ad. OF. rustical, or med.L. rusticāl-is: see prec. and -al1.] A. adj. 1. = rustic a. 2. Now arch.1432–50 tr. Higden (Rolls) II. 345 He was trowede to haue bene a godde of the rusticalle peple. 1531 Elyot Gov. iii. xxii. (18...
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Coté, Joost; Westerbeek, Loes (2005), Recalling the Indies: Colonial Culture and Postcolonial Identities, Askant Academic Publishers, ISBN 978-90-5260
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squint
▪ I. squint, n. (skwɪnt) [f. squint a. or v.] 1. a. A permanent tendency in the eye to look obliquely or askant; defective coincidence of the optic axes; strabismus.a 1652 Brome Queenes Exch. ii. i, The dulnesse of the Eye, which here shews deadly But for a little squint it has. 1712–3 Swift Jrnl. t...
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eye
▪ I. eye, n.1 (aɪ) Forms: 1 éaᵹe, éᵹe, (éᵹo, éᵹu, ǽᵹe), 2–4 eȝe, 2–3 eȝhe, 2–5 eiȝe (3 ehe), 3–5 eghe, 3–7 eie, 4 egȝe, ei, hei(e, he (north.), 4–5 eyȝe, eyghe, eighe, yȝe, iȝe, 4–7 ey, 5 egh, yghe, ighe, eyhe, ehe, yhe, ye, ie, (hyghe, hye, iey, ȝee, hee, iȝee, ieae), 5–6 e (north.), (eae, iee), 5–...
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