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boardly
boardly anglicized spelling of buirdly a. Sc.c 1817 Hogg Tales & Sk. VI. 105 Interposing his boardly frame between the combatants. 1881 Autobiog. J. Younger xi. 116 A crying Shame to talk of hanging a boardly Man. Oxford English Dictionary
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buirdly
buirdly, a. Sc. (ˈb{obar}rdlɪ) Also prob. bierdly, bierly, beerly, boordly. [prob. a modern perversion of the earlier Sc. buirly, goodly, stout, burly. Less prob. repr. OE. ᵹebyredl{iacu}c suitable, seemly, meet, f. ᵹebyrian, ONorthumb. byra to be pertinent, become, be becoming, with sense ‘comely’.... Oxford English Dictionary
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white-bearded
white-ˈbearded, a. [white a. 12 c.] Having a white beard. a. Of a man.1596 Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, ii. iv. 509 Falstaffe, that old white-bearded Sathan. 1914 D. H. Lawrence Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd iii. 81 A little stout, white-bearded man. b. Of wheat.1788 G. Washington Diary 8 Sept. (1925) III. 417 Als... Oxford English Dictionary
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