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860 words match “NYS”

FORGE v.
ver get admittance into common use. Locke. Do forge a life-long trouble for ourselves. Tennyson.
FOUR-IN-HAND a.
rson; also, a vehicle drawn by such a team. As quaint a four-in-hand As you shall see. Tennyson.
FOXY a.
taining to the fox; foxlike in disposition or looks; wily. Modred's narrow, foxy face. Tennyson.
FRACTION n.
A portion; a fragment. Some niggard fractions of an hour. Tennyson.
FRAY v.
hreads are loose; to ravel; as, the cloth frays badly. A suit of frayed magnificience. tennyson.
FREQUENCE n.
A crowd; a throng; a concourse. [Archaic.] Tennyson.
FRET v.
or other metal; a worm frets the plants of a ship. With many a curve my banks I fret. Tennyson.
FROLIC v.
ty; to indulge in frolicsome play; to sport. Hither, come hither, and frolic and play. Tennyson.
FRONT v.
To appear before; to meet. [Enid] daily fronted him In some fresh splendor. Tennyson.
FROTH v.
. . . froths treason at his mouth. Dryden. Is your spleen frothed out, or have ye more Tennyson.
FULMINE v.
ate; to utter with authority or vehemence. She fulmined out her scorn of laws Salique. Tennyson.
FURROWY a.
Furrowed. [R.] Tennyson.
FUSE v.
To unite or blend, as if melted together. Whose fancy fuses old and new. Tennyson.
GADDING a.
passion, and walketh the streets. Bacon. The good nuns would check her gadding tongue. Tennyson. Gadding car, in quarrying, a car which carries a drilling machine so arranged as to drill a line of holes.
GAIN n. 2 definitions
sing of profit or valuable possessions; acquisition; accumulation. "The lust of gain." Tennyson.
GALINGALE n.
roots; also, any plant of the same genus. Chaucer. Meadow, set with slender galingale. Tennyson.
GAP v.
To make an opening in; to breach. Their masses are gapp'd with our grape. Tennyson.
GARB v.
To clothe; array; deck. These black dog-Dons Garb themselves bravely. Tennyson.
GARTH n.
den; as, a cloister garth. A clapper clapping in a garth To scare the fowl from fruit. Tennyson.
GATHER v.
Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes. Tennyson.
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