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128 words match “DALE”

LIQUID a.
t solid. Yes, though he go upon the plane and liquid water which will receive no step. Tyndale.
LISP v.
ords unto them according as the babes and children of that age might sound them again. Tyndale.
LITERAL a.
of a phrase. It hath but one simple literal sense whose light the owls can not abide. Tyndale .
LOVELY adv.
In a manner to please, or to excite love. [Obs. or R.] Tyndale.
MEANDER v.
se or passage; to be intricate. Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran. Coleridge.
MEDAL v.
To honor or reward with a medal. "Medaled by the king." Thackeray.
MEDDLE v.
have to do; -- [Obs.] Barrow. Study to be quiet, and to meddle with your own business. Tyndale.
MILK v.
w anything from, as if by milking; to compel to yield profit or advantage; to plunder. Tyndale. They [the lawyers] milk an unfortunate estate as regularly as a dairyman does his stock. London Spectator. To milk the street, to squeeze the smaller operators in stocks and extract a profit from them, by alternately raising…
MOW v.
To make mouths. Nodding, becking, and mowing. Tyndale.
NEVERMORE adv.
Never again; at no time hereafter. Testament of Love. Tyndale. Where springtime of the Hesperides Begins, but endeth nevermore. Longfellow.
NOSEL v.
e the Scripture . . . to nosel thee in anything save in Christ, he is a false prophet. Tyndale.
OBJECTION n.
have no objection to going; unreasonable objections. "Objections against every truth." Tyndale.
OOSPHERE; OOESPHERE n.
analogous mass of protoplasm in the ovule of a flowering plant; an embryonic vesicle. Goodale.
OTHERWAYS adv.
See Otherwise. Tyndale.
OUGHT p.
under obligation to pay; owed. [Obs.] This due obedience which they ought to the king. Tyndale. The love and duty I long have ought you. Spelman. [He] said . . . you ought him a thousand pound. Shak.
PANTER n.
A keeper of the pantry; a pantler. [Obs.] Tyndale.
PATTER v.
To mutter; to mumble; as, to patter with the lips. Tyndale. Etym: [In this sense, and in the following, perh. from paternoster.]
POPINJAY n.
A parrot. The pye and popyngay speak they know not what. Tyndale.
PORTESSE n.
See Porteass. [Obs.] Tyndale.
QUALIFIED a.
ee ceasing with the qualification, as a grant to A and his heirs, tenants of the manor of Dale. -- Qualified indorsement (Law), an indorsement which modifies the liability of the indorser that would result from the general principles of law, but does not affect the negotiability of the instrument. Story. -- Qualified…
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