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128 words match “DALE”

READ v.
s.] See Rede. Therefore, I read thee, get to God's word, and thereby try all doctrine. Tyndale.
RESPECTION n.
ct of respecting; respect; regard. [Obs.] Without difference or respection of persons. Tyndale.
RIGHT adv.
le; right valiant. "He was not right fat". Chaucer. For which I should be right sorry. Tyndale. [I] return those duties back as are right fit. Shak.
RIX-DOLLAR n.
a British coin worth about 36 cents, used in Ceylon and at the Cape of Good Hope. See Rigsdaler, Riksdaler, and Rixdaler.
ROAM n.
The act of roaming; a wandering; a ramble; as, he began his roam o'er hill amd dale. Milton.
ROOM n.
om of his father Herod. Matt. ii. 22. Neither that I look for a higher room in heaven. Tyndale. Let Bianca take her sister's room. Shak.
SEPULCHER; SEPULCHRE n.
omb. The stony entrance of this sepulcher. Shak. The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulcher. John xx. 1. A whited sepulcher. Fig.: Any person who is fair outwardly but unclean or vile within. See Matt. xxiii.27.
SET v.
n their heads, with jewels richly set, Each lady wore a radiant coronet. Dryden. Pastoral dales thin set with modern farms. Wordsworth.
SHEEP n.
ry where sheep range and graze. -- Sheep's beard (Bot.), a cichoraceous herb (Urospermum Dalechampii) of Southern Europe; -- so called from the conspicuous pappus of the achenes. -- Sheep's bit (Bot.), a European herb (Jasione montana) having much the appearance of scabious. -- Sheep pox (Med.), a contagious disease…
SHIP n.
or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a ship) used to hold incense. [Obs.] Tyndale. Armed ship, a private ship taken into the service of the government in time of war, and armed and equipped like a ship of war. [Eng.] Brande & C. -- General ship. See under General. -- Ship biscuit, hard biscuit prepared f…
SIMULAR n.
st calleth the Pharisees hypocrites, that is to say, simulars, and painted sepulchers. Tyndale.
SITUATE; SITUATED a.
Placed; residing. Pleasure situate in hill and dale. Milton.
SOFT a.
Edward's soft and pitiful, like mine. Shak. The meek or soft shall inherit the earth. Tyndale.
SOUTER n.
her to please God: . . . to wash dishes, to be a souter, or an apostle, -- all is one. Tyndale.
STREET n.
s or business houses. He removed [the body of] Amasa from the street unto the field. Coverdale. At home or through the high street passing. Milton.
TALE n.
and not by weight. Hooker. And every shepherd tells his tale, Under the hawthornn in the dale. Milton. In packing, they keep a just tale of the number. Carew.
TEXTURE n.
That which woven; a woven fabric; a web. Milton. Others, apart far in the grassy dale, Or roughening waste, their humble texture weave. Thomson.
TOP n.
Eve; verge; point. [R.] "He was upon the top of his marriage with Magdaleine." Knolles.
TYLOSIS n.
e cell into the cavity of another, sometimes forming there an irregular mass of cells. Goodale.
VOLOW v.
To baptize; -- used in contempt by the Reformers. [Obs.] Tyndale.
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