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suspiral
† suspiral Obs. Also 5–6 suspyral, -all(e, -irall(e, suspirel, 6 sesperal, susprall, cesperalle. [a. OF. s(o)uspirail (mod.F. soupirail) = Pr. sospiralh, ad. med.L. suspīrāculum, f. suspīrāre to suspire + -culum, denoting instrument.] 1. A breathing-passage.c 1400 Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton 1483) iv. xxxi...
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His objects were often defined by a metalanguage aptitude, like the chairs Santa and Suspiral or the lamps and the glass for Artemide.
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susper
† susper Obs. App. local abbrev. of suspiral.1532–3 Durham Househ. Bk. (Surtees) 267 Operantibus ad le susper, juxta novum pontem, 14d. 1588–9 Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 732 For work beyond the Suspers Banke, in Holidays courten. 1594 Ibid. 739 At the Susper.
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cesspool
cesspool (ˈsɛspuːl) Forms: 7 cest-, 9 sus-, sess-, 8– cesspool. [Of uncertain derivation. The form cesperalle has suggested connexion or popular confusion, with suspiral breathing hole, air-hole, ventilator, q.v. The form cestpool, if genuine (compared with the dial. ‘cist, a cesspool’ in Halliwell)...
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valve
▪ I. valve, n.1 (vælv) Also 5 valwe, 7 value. [ad. L. valva leaf of a door (usu. pl. valvæ a folding door). So F. valve (1611), Pg. valva.] I. 1. a. One or other of the halves or leaves of a double or folding door.1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) IV. 449 At þe laste þey brende þe valves of þe temple þet ...
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wind
▪ I. wind, n.1 (wɪnd, poet. also waɪnd) Forms: 1– wind, 3–6 wynd, (4 wint, wynt, whynde, wend, Sc. vend), 4–6 wynde, Sc. vynd, 4–7 winde, (5 wende, wyind, wijnd, wyynd; Sc. 6–7 wound, 6–8 win, 9 win', wun). [OE. wind = OFris., OS., (M)LG., (M)Du. wind, OHG., MHG. wint, wind- (G. wind), ON. vindr (Sw...
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