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imp. pl. of Fly, v. i. Chaucer.

To go before. [Obs.] Spenser.

To go wrong; to go astray. [Obs.] "The world is miswent." Gower.

Morning. [Obs.]

imp. of Outgo.

Own. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A follower of Robert Owen, who tried to reorganize society on a socialistic basis, and established an industrial community on the Clyde, Scotland, and, later, a similar one in Indiana.

A small British lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeoides, or C. ferus); -- called also gwyniad and lake herring.

the autumn, that it may be cropped by cattle. Turn your cows, that give milk, into your rowens till snow comes. Mortimer.

A member of a religious sect founded by Kaspar von Schwenkfeld, a Silesian reformer who disagreed with Luther, especially on the deification of the body of Christ.

A British trout usually regarded as a variety (var. Cambricus) of the salmon trout.

p. p. of Slee, to slay. With a sword drawn out he would have slaw himself. Wyclif (Acts xvi. 27.)

A nutritious article of food, much used in Scotland, made from the husk of the oat by a process not unlike that by which common starch is made; -- called flummery in England. [Written also sowans, and sowins.]

r the nineteenth; tenth after the tenth; coming after nineteen others; -- the ordinal of twenty.

One more that nineteen; twice; as, twenty men.

Having twenty-four leaves to a sheet; as, a twenty-fourmo form, book, leaf, size, etc. -- n.

Twenty times as many.

imp. of Undergo.

One of the runes adopted into the Anglo-Saxon, or Old English, alphabet. It had the value of modern English w, and was replaced from about a. d. 1280 at first by uu, later by w.

Made of yew; as, yewen bows.