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codware
▪ I. † ˈcodware1 Obs. [f. cod n.1 + ware n.] 1. Podded vegetables, pulse.1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. xcv. (1495) 662 Legumina: codware that seruyth to potage. Ibid., Amonge codware Lupines and beenys ben grettest. 1669 Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 161 Of all the sorts of Codware, there is none...
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podware
ˈpodware Obs. exc. dial. Also 7–9 podder. [Of uncertain origin: cf. codware, 1398–1699, and pedware, 1577–1706. The first element suggests pod of pease, beans, etc.; but this is not known till nearly a century later than podware, which moreover in quot. 1584 is not applied to pulse or podded plants,...
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pedware
† ˈpedware Obs. [Origin obscure. Perh. from ped, basket, though this hardly accounts for the sense, or perh. an error in Googe for podware, copied by Worlidge and Phillips; but podware is itself of doubtful history, since pod = cod has not been found till about a century later than podware and pedwa...
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pilliver
ˈpilliver Now north. dial. Forms: 1 pylewer, 2 pulewar, 4 peloware, pylwere, 6–7 (9 dial.) pilliver, 7 pillover. [app. f. OE. pyle, pillow + ON. ver case, cover: cf. ON. koddaver pillow-case = codware2. (But the element -war, -ware may have a different origin; with the forms in -ver cf. pillowber, p...
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cutted
† cutted, ppl. a. Obs. or dial. (ˈkʌtɪd) [An earlier form of the pa. pple. of cut v., retained for some time in adjective use.] = cut ppl. a. 1. Wounded, mutilated, etc., by cutting; castrated; carved, sculptured, engraved, etc.1438 E.E. Wills (1882) 111 My cuttyd hors. 1521 Test. Ebor. (Surtees) V....
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purging
▪ I. purging, vbl. n. (ˈpɜːdʒɪŋ) [f. purge v.1 + -ing1.] The action of the verb purge. 1. a. Purgation; cleansing, removal of impurities, faults, or errors.1382 Wyclif Num. xix. 21 Eche that towchith the watris of purgynge, shal be vnclene vnto the euen. ― 2 Pet. i. 9 Receyuynge forȝetingnes of the ...
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ware
▪ I. ware, n.1 Sc. and dial. (wɛə(r)) Forms: 1 wár (waar, uaar, uar), 6 wayr, vare, 6–7 wair, 7 war, waar, weir, 8 wear, 8–9 waur(e, 5– ware; see also Eng. Dial. Dict. and ore5. [OE. wár, corresp. to NFris. wier neut. sea-weed, pond-weed, whence prob. Du. wier neut. (first found in Kilian, referred ...
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blooming
▪ I. blooming, vbl. n.1 (ˈbluːmɪŋ) [f. bloom v.1] 1. a. The action or state of coming into or being in bloom. Also fig.1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. xcvi. (1495) 663 All codware louyth water tofore the blossom and drinesse after the blowmynge. c 1630 Drummond of Hawthornden Wks. (1711) 12 A virg...
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vetch
▪ I. vetch (vɛtʃ) Forms: α. 4–5 fecch(e, 5 fechche, fehche, fech, 5–6 feche, 4–7 fetche, 4–8, 9 dial. fetch. β. 5 vache, 5, 9 s.w. dial., vatch; 5–7 veche (5 vessche), vech (5 wech), 4–6 vetche, 6– vetch (9 veitch). See also fatch and fitch n.1 [a. ONF. veche, vecche, veiche, vesche, = OF. vecce, ve...
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charge
▪ I. charge, n. (tʃɑːdʒ) Also 4 charg, chaarge, 6 chardge, Sc. chairge. [a. F. charge fem.:—Romanic carga, late L. carrica (cf. It. carica, Sp. carga), f. the vb. carricāre, cargar: see charge v., and cf. cark, charche n.] I. A material load; that which can be borne, taken, or received. † 1. A (mate...
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