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caperer
▪ I. † caperer, n.1 = caper n.3, privateer.1676 W. Row Contn. Blair's Autobiog. xii. (1848) 508 At this time our caperers set to sea.▪ II. caperer, n.2 (ˈkeɪpərə(r)) [f. caper v. + -er1.] 1. One who capers.1693 Dryden Juvenal, The nimble caperer on the cord. 1812 Byron Waltz x, Columbia's caperers t...
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Caddisfly
Each type has its own angling name, so for example Mystacides is the dancer; Sericostoma the caperer; Leptocerus the silverhorn; Phryganea the murragh
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cross-caper
† ˈcross-ˈcaper Obs. [cross- 9.] ? Some kind of caper or movement in dancing; cf. cross-cut, cross-point n. Said usually of a tailor, and often fig. in application.1622 Massinger Virg. Mart. iv. i, Had a tailor seen her At this advantage, he, with his cross capers, Had ruffled her by this. 1627 F. E...
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caper
▪ I. caper, n.1 (ˈkeɪpə(r)) Forms: α. with -s in sing. and pl. 4 caperis, 4–6 cap(p)aris, -es, 6–7 caperes, -ers, -ars, cappers; β. without -s in sing. 6–9 caper, 7 capar; γ. (from Fr.) 5–7 capres. [ME. caperis, caperes, a. L. capparis, a. Gr. κάππαρις; in OF. caspres, mod.Fr. câpre, It. cappero. Th...
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sedge
▪ I. sedge, n.1 (sɛdʒ) Forms: 1 sæcg, secg (sech, seic, secgg, segc, segg), 3–5 segge (? gg = (dʒ)), 5 sege, cegge, (7 sage), 5– sedge; β. 6–7 segge (? gg = g), 9 dial. seag, 5–7, 9 dial. seg(g. [OE. sęcg masc., once neut. (cf. LG. segge fem., Br. Wbuch.):—OTeut. type *sagjo-z, f. root *sag- (:—Indo...
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and blue
▪ I. red, a. and n. (rɛd) Forms: 1 réad, 2–6 read(e, 3 ræd(en, 3–6 rede, reed(e, 4–6 redd(e, (compar. 4 raddore, 5 -ur), 4–8 Sc. reid, (6 rid), 2– red. [Comm. Teut.: OE. réad = OFris. râd, OS. (M.Du., MLG.) rôd (Du., LG. rood), OHG., MHG. rōt (mod.G. roth, rot), ON. rauðr (Sw., Da. röd), Goth. rauþs...
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