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gyve
▪ I. gyve, n. Now arch. or poet. (dʒaɪv) Chiefly pl. Forms: pl. 3, 6, 7 gives, (5 gyvys), 5–6 guyv(i)es, (7 gieves), 7–8 guives, 4– gyves. sing. 6 give, 7 guive, 7– gyve. [ME. give, of obscure origin. The alliteration in ME. poetry shows that the word was originally pronounced with initial (g), and ...
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in England, dated 1599, divides his belongings amongst his wife and three children, "except the cubbard in the halle the witche in the kytchyn which I gyve
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ygyved
ygyved fettered.c 1290 i-gwiued [see gyve v.]. 1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) III. 145 Sabar þat fliȝe out of prisoun [added in MS. γ ygyued].
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Greg Delanty
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Selected Delanty: poems and translations by Greg Delanty chosen and introduced by Archie Burnett Un-Gyve Un-Gyve Roster
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gyved
gyved, ppl. a. (dʒaɪvd) [f. gyve v. + -ed1.] Fastened with gyves; fettered, shackled.1382 Wyclif Gen. xxxix. 20 [Potiphar] toke Joseph into prysoun, where the gyved men of the kyng weren kept. 1565 Cooper Thesaurus, Compeditus, fettered, gyued, shackled. 1821 J. Baillie Metr. Leg., Columbus xlii. 10...
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hoodful
ˈhoodful [f. hood n.1 + -ful.] As much as a hood will hold.c 1500 Maid Emlyn in Anc. Poet. Tracts (Percy Soc.) 13 She wold make theyr berdes whether they wold or no, and gyve them to were a praty hoodefull of belles. 1583 Leg. Bp. St. Androis 146 in Satir. Poems Reform. xlv, He hosted thair a hude f...
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down-gyved
† down-gyved, ppl. a. Obs. rare—1. [f. down adv. IX. + gyve.] Explained by Steevens as meaning ‘Hanging down like the loose cincture which confines fetters round the ancles.’1602 Shakes. Ham. ii. i. 80 His stockings foul'd, Vngartred, and downe giued to his Anckle.
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ungyve
unˈgyve, v. [un-2 4 b.] trans. To free from gyves or fetters. Also fig.1531 Elyot Gov. ii. vi, He..commaunded hym to be ungyued and sette at libertie. 1569 Newton Cicero's Olde Age 4, I haue knowen a great maignie..who were well pleased to be ungiued, loosed, and deliuered out of the yoke of their s...
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touchant
† ˈtouchant, prep. Obs. rare. [a. F. touchant prep. use of pr. pple. of toucher to touch.] = touching prep.c 1375 Cursor M. 26439 (Fairf.) Touchant dedeli synne say we. 1425 Paston Lett. I. 21, I send yow..the copie of unfrendly lettre..sent to me late, touchant the same matier. ? 1430 Ibid. 30 My c...
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botchment
† ˈbotchment Obs. rare. [f. botch v. + -ment.] An addition, a ‘make-up’.c 1440 Promp. Parv. 5 A bocchement, augmentum. Ibid. 42 Bochment [1499 botchement], additamentum. 1526 Skelton Magnyf. 1126 Gyve me thy dogge, and I am content, And thou shalt have my hawke to a botchment.
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gife
▪ I. gif, conj. Sc. and north. dial. (gɪf) Forms: 5–6 giff(e, gyf(fe, (5 gyve, 6 geif, geve, gewe, giwe), 6 giue, 5– gif. [An alteration of ME. ᵹif, if. It has not been certainly traced beyond the 15th c. (the MSS. of Barbour having been written in 1487–9). Probably it was due to the influence of gi...
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somler
† ˈsomler Obs. Chiefly Sc. Also 6 summeleir, symleir, somme-, somlier, sommler, somlar, semlar. [a. F. sommelier, f. somme pack.] A butler.1543 St. Papers Hen. VIII, IX. 325 To gyve commaundement that your sommelier at Bordeaulx might be suffred to departe with such wynes as he had provided for Your...
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garneter
† garneter Obs. rare. Also 5 garnetour, 6 garnettyer, garniter. [a. OF. garnetier, grenetier the overseer of a granary or of a salt-store (grenier à sel), f. grenier, garner, granary.] The superintendent of a granary.a 1483 Liber Niger in Househ. Ord. (1790) 70 One groome garnetour to receive, to ke...
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