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128 words match “DALE”

FORTH v.
rth. Lucas was Paul's companion, at the leastway from the sixteenth of the Acts forth. Tyndale. From this time forth, I never will speak word. Shak. I repeated the Ave Maria; the inquisitor bad me say forth; I said I was taught no more. Strype.
FORTHINK v.
To repent; to regret; to be sorry for; to cause regret. [Obs.] "Let it forthink you." Tyndale. That me forthinketh, quod this January. Chaucer.
FRIARY n.
A monastery; a convent of friars. Drugdale.
FUNGI IMPERFECTI n.
the conidium stages of various Ascomycetes. The group is divided into the orders Sphæropsidales, Melanconiales, and Moniliales.
GLEN n.
A secluded and narrow valley; a dale; a depression between hills. And wooes the widow's daughter of the glen. Spenser.
GODSHIP n.
The rank or character of a god; deity; divinity; a god or goddess. O'er hills and dales their godships came. Prior.
HAG n.
A quagmire; mossy ground where peat or turf has been cut. Dugdale.
HARBEROUS a.
.] A bishop must be faultless, the husband of one wife, honestly appareled, harberous. Tyndale (1 Tim. iii. 2)
HARVEST n.
edtime and harvest . . . shall not cease. Gen viii. 22. At harvest, when corn is ripe. Tyndale.
IMPROVE v. 2 definitions
[Obs.] Neither can any of them make so strong a reason which another can not improve. Tyndale.
INCIRCUMSPECT a.
Not circumspect; heedless; careless; reckless; impolitic. Tyndale.
INDURATE a.
Hardened; not soft; indurated. Tyndale.
JOIN v.
To enjoin upon; to command. [Obs. & R.] They join them penance, as they call it. Tyndale.
JUKE v.
cent. They lived in the State of New York, and their history was investigated by R. L. Dugdale as an example of the inheritance of criminal and immoral tendencies, disease, and pauperism. Sixty per cent of those traced showed, degeneracy, and they are estimated to have cost society $1,308,000 in 75 years.…
KEEP v.
icitous; to watch. [Obs.] Keep that the lusts choke not the word of God that is in us. Tyndale.
KNOT n.
not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain. Milton.
KNOWLEDGE v.
To acknowledge. [Obs.] "Sinners which knowledge their sins." Tyndale.
LANE n.
field of ice. It is become a turn-again lane unto them which they can not go through. Tyndale.
LEGACY n.
dying legacy, and the like. My legacy and message wherefore I am sent into the world. Tyndale. He came and told his legacy. Chapman. Legacy duty, a tax paid to government on legacies. Wharton. -- Legacy hunter, one who flatters and courts any one for the sake of a legacy.
LIBRIFORM a.
ender and relatively thick- walled, and occasionally are furnished with bordered pits. Goodale.
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