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Samuel Purchas
plaine ground with a wall, wherein are fertile meddowes, pleasant springs, delightful streams, and all sorts of beasts of chase and game, and in the middest
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middeste
▪ I. middest, a. (ˈmɪdɪst) [f. mid a. + -est.] Most central; in the middle.1590 Spenser F.Q. i. iv. 15 Yet the stout Faery mongst the middest crowd Thought all their glorie vaine in knightly vew. Ibid. ii. ii. 13 The eldest did against the youngest goe, And both against the middest meant to worken w...
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Antennaria dioica
John Gerard's Herball (1597) describes the plant: "When the flower hath long flourished and is waxen old, then comes there in the middest of the floure a certain brown yellow thrumme, such as is in the middest of the daisie, which floure being gathered when it is young may be kept in such manner (I meane
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midst
midst, n., adv., and prep. (mɪdst) Forms: 5 medeste, 5–7 myddest, 5–8 (9 arch. rare) middest, 6 middeste, mydst, 7 middst, midd'st, midest, 8 mid'st, 6– midst. [First appears in the 15th c. as middest. Prob. two different formations have been confused: (1) an extended form of middes, mids, with the ...
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overballast
ˌoverˈballast, v. Also 7 -ballise. [over- 27.] trans. To overload (a ship) with ballast; to overload.1601 Sir W. Cornwallis Ess. ii. xl. (1631) 171 A shippe over-ballasted in the middest of the ocean. 1607 T. Walkington Opt. Glass 58 If wee doe not overballise our stomachs with superfluity. 1895 Wes...
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Landscape with Psyche Outside the Palace of Cupid
After rest, she sees 'in the middest (sic) and very heart of the woods, well nigh at the fall of the river .... a princely edifice'.
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unvictualled
unˈvictualled, ppl. a. (un-1 8.)1484 Cov. Leet Bk. 519 Wherthorough..straungers resortyng to þe seid Cite..were vnvittailled. 1549 Cheke Hurt Sedit. (1569) F ij, Exeter..being in the middest of Rebelles, vnuittailed, vnfurnished, vnprepared, for so long a siege. 1598 Sylvester Du Bartas ii. ii. Baby...
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glottis
glottis (ˈglɒtɪs) [a. mod.L. glōttis, a. Gr. γλωττίς, f. γλῶττα var. of γλῶσσα tongue.] The opening at the upper part of the trachea, or windpipe, and between the vocal chords, which, by its dilatation and contraction, contributes to the modulation of the voice.1578 Banister Hist. Man iv. 50 Glottis...
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moyce
† moyce Eccl. Obs. Also 6 moseye, moyse. [? Corrupt var. of morse n.1 (Cf. moose in quot. 1489–90 s.v.)] ? = morse n.1c 1550 Fabric Rolls York Minster (Surtees) 311 Moyses. A riche Moseye of goulde with ruby in the middest. Another with the image of our Ladye... Two ould Moyses. 1889 J. Raine Hist. ...
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smutched
smutched, ppl. a. (ˈsmʌtʃt) [f. smutch v.] 1. Smudged, smutted, stained, sullied.1784 Cowper Task ii. 491 The bow Respectful of the smutch'd artificer. 1848 Keightley Notes to Horace, Sat. i. ii. 36 The smutched face of the prostitute. 1899 Macm. Mag. Nov. 35 A..woman..with a lawless tongue and a sm...
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spoutage
ˈspoutage rare—1. [f. spout n. 1.] Provision of spouts.1612 Sturtevant Metallica 93 Spouteage may more conueniently be made of pipes, brought downe within the middest of the Birch walls.
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enomoty
enomoty Gr. Antiq. (ɛˈnɒmətɪ) [ad. Gr. ἐνωµοτία a band of sworn soldiers, f. ἐν in + ὀµνύναι to swear.] A division in the Spartan army.1623 Bingham Xenophon 54 They filled the middest..if very wide by Enomoties. 1838 Thirlwall Greece V. xxxviii. 75 The enomoty, of thirty-six men, stood in three file...
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firmify
† ˈfirmify, v. Obs. rare. [f. firm a. + -ify.] trans. To make firm. intr. To become firm.1578 Banister Hist. Man i. 5 You shall not dread, to finde the examples of Syssarcosis very playne, in the fleshy firmifieng of the teeth in their Celles. Ibid. 17 Os Hyoides..is so firmified in the middest, as ...
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expulser
expulser Obs. (ɛkˈspʌlsə(r)) [f. prec. + -er1.] One who or that which expels or drives out; in senses of the vb. Const. of.1540 R. Hyrde tr. Vives' Instr. Chr. Wom. (1592) Aa vj, The man standeth as it were in the middest betweene his mother and his wife: and so either of them hateth other, as an ex...
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