10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LUSKISH»
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A Glossary, Or Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and ...
LUSKISH, adj. Lazy; from Lusk. lli.use thee, thou sluggish bird, this mirthful May,
For slianic, come forth, and leave thy luskish nest. Drayton's Otr'l, vol. iv, p. 1293.
Tn the edition of 1619 it is lushie. Than anv swine-heard's brat, that Iowsie came
...
Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, 1901
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A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and ...
LUSKISH, adj. Lazy; from Lusk. Rouse thee, thou Bruggish bird, this mirthful May,
For shame, come forth, and leave thy luskish nest. Drayton's Owl, vol. iv, p. 1292.
In the edition of 1 G 1 9 it is luslcie. Than any swinc-heard's hrat3 that lowsie ...
Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright, 1888
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Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: Ice to Hyps
Also, LUSKISH ; as adj. = idle. 1531-47. Copland, Hve Way to the Spyttcl Hous, 1.
40. Boyes, gyrles, and luskish strong knaues. i.1602. Lingua [DodsLEv, Old Plays
(i874), ix. 462]. Up, with a pox to you ; up you lusk. [Note: lusk — idle, la2y, ...
John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley, 1896
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A Glossary; Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and ...
147. Leaving the sensuall Base hangers on, tusking at home in slime. ifarslon, Sc
. of Fill, iii, 8. vNay, now you puff, tusk, and draw up your chin, Twirlc the poor
chain you run a feasting in. Cotgrate's Wits Interpreter, 1671. p. 811. LUSKISH,
adj.
Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright, 1867
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The Decades of Henry Bullinger
Bullingerhas adopted the translation of Erasmus.] [2 2 Cor. xii. 9. This is the
Vulgate, and not Erasmus', version.] [3 calcare, Lat. ; to tread under foot.] [4
luskish, somowhat inclinable to laziness or indolence. — Johnson.] to iron, which
by use is ...
Heinrich Bullinger, Rev. Thomas Harding, 1850
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The Dublin University Magazine
Again, I find that the word Lei-3g signifies (I copy from the Irish dictionary) "lazy,
lubberly, longish, luskish,' languid, slothful, sluggish, supine, inactive;" but that
any of these terms could be predicated of monks, priors, friars, or abbots, eat ...
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A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are ...
LU'SKISHLY. ad. [from luskish.] Lazily; indolently. LU'SKISHNESS. s. [from
luskish.] A disposition to laziness. Spenser. LUSO'RIOUS. a. [lusorius, Lat] Used
in play ; sportive. Sanderson. LU'SORY. a. [lusorius , Lai.] Used in play. LUST. s. [
luvT.
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Annual Report of The Parker Society, 11 (for the Year 1851)
Lucianists, iii. 112. Lucretia, i. 417. Luskish, inclined to laziness, ii. 70. Lycurgus,
ii. 219. Lydia, ii. 22, 23, 31; iv. 366. M. laws of, 390; oweth a duty to the church, iv.
34; bears the sword in the christian church. 509. Magistrates, meant by parents, ...
Johann Heinrich Bullinger, Thomas Harding, 1852
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The Works of John Marston
Or snarl at Lollius' son, That with industrious pains hath harder won His true-got
worship and his gentry's name Than any swineherd's brat that lousy came To
luskish * Athens and, with farming pots, Compiling beds, and scouring greasy
spots, ...
John Marston, Arthur Henry Bullen, 1887
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The New And Complete Dictionary Of The English Language: In ...
A lazy irlle fellow, a drone. lAisk'ish (adj. from lusk) Inclined to laziness. Lusk'ishly
[adv. from luskish) Lazily, indolently.' Lusk'iihneis (s.from luskish) A disposition to
laziness. Sp. LUSO'RIOUS (adj. from tbe Lat. ludo lusus to play) Used in plav, ...
