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30 words match “LERE”

LERE a. 4 definitions
Empty. [Obs.] See Lere, a.
LERED a.
Learned. [Obs.] " Lewed man or lered." Chaucer.
ANTLERED a.
Furnished with antlers. The antlered stag. Cowper.
CLEARSTORY; CLERESTORY n.
The upper story of the nave of a church, containing windows, and rising above the aisle roofs.
CLERESTORY n.
Same as Clearstory.
CREMAILLERE n.
An indented or zigzaged line of intrenchment.
GENOUILLERE n. 3 definitions
A metal plate covering the knee.
JANGLERESS n.
A female prater or babbler.
JUGGLERESS n.
A female juggler. T. Warton.
NAILERESS n.
A women who makes nailes.
OSTLERESS n.
A female ostler. [R.] Tennyson.
SCLEREMA n.
Induration of the cellular tissue. Sclerema of adults. See Scleroderma. -- Sclerema neonatorum ( Etym: [NL., of the newborn], an affection characterized by a peculiar hardening and rigidity of the cutaneous and subcutaneous tissues in the newly born. It is usually fatal. Called also skinbound disease.…
SCLERENCHYMA n. 2 definitions
Vegetable tissue composed of short cells with thickened or hardened walls, as in nutshells and the gritty parts of a pear. See Sclerotic.
SCLERENCHYMATOUS a.
Pertaining to, or composed of, sclerenchyma.
SCLERENCHYME n.
Sclerenchyma.
SKLERE v.
To shelter; to cover. [Obs.]
SOLER; SOLERE n.
A loft or garret. See Solar, n. Sir W. Scott.
SOLLERET n.
A flexible steel shoe (or one of the plates forming such a shoe), worn with mediæval armor.
WAILERESS n.
A woman who wails. [Obs.]
WHILERE adv.
A little while ago; recently; just now; erewhile. [Obs.] Helpeth me now as I did you whilere. Chaucer. He who, with all heaven's heraldry, whilere Entered the world. Milton.
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