10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SPREATHED»
Discover the use of
spreathed in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
spreathed and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Walford's Antiquarian Magazine and Bibliographical Review
PROVINCIAL WORDS. S1r, — I send you a list of some survivals of old provincial
words which may interest some of your readers. BerkSHIRe. — (1) Spreathed,
ruffled with the wind, chapped, as arms quite spreathed. Halliwell has spreathed
...
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Walford's Antiquarian: A Magazine & Bibliographical Review
(1) Spreathed, ruffled with the wind, chapped, as arms quite spreathed. Halliwell
has spreathed, chapped with cold ( West). Buck1nghamsh1re. — (1) Unkid,
shameful. Compare the var. djalect word unkard, one meaning of which is "
froward.
Edward Walford, George W. Redway, 1886
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Walford's Antiquarian Magazine and Bibliographical Review
(1) Spreathed, ruffled with the wind, chapped, as arms quite spreathed. Halliwell
has spreathed, chapped with cold (West). Buckinghamshire. — (1) Unkid,
shameful. Compare the var. dialect word unkard, one meaning of which is "
froward.
George W. Redway, Edward Walford, 1886
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Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English, Containing ...
Nimble. Wilts. SPREATHED, adj. Chopped with cold. West. SPnucKLED, adj.
Speckled. Sense, (1) s. A frolic. Var. d. (2) adj. Spruce; gay. Dev. Seanmr,part.p.
Sprinkled. Spanunmpartp. Striped. SPRENT, (1) pret. t. of springer. Leapt. (2) part
. p.
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A Dictionary of Archaic & Provincial Words, Obsolete ...
SPREATHED. Chopped with cold. West. SPRECKLED. Speckled. Var.dial.
SPREDD. The marynere set hur on hys bedd, Sche hadd soone aftur a byttur
spredd. MS. Cantab. Ff. ii. 38, f. 238. SPREE. (1) Spruce j gay. Devon. (2) A merry
frolic.
James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, 1852
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The Old Cotswold Dialect
It infers a surreptitious disappearance, rather like that of Longfellow's Arabs who
folded their tents and silently stole away. Razzle – to run at the roots and throw
up suckers, and spreathed – applied to roughness of the skin on the hands or
face ...
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Survey English Dialects
... V1.10.5.spredfirt Man spreading v-ing spreading tales VIII.3.5(a). sprcdin terlz
So spread-staff n the STRETCHER between the traces of a cart-horse 1.5.11.
spledstaf St spreathed adj CHAPPED V1.7.2. spiirdd Mon, GOSSIPING sp[irdd W
Ha ...
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The beauties of Wiltshire: displayed in statistical, ...
Spreathed. Chapped by cold. Spreeth. Active, able. " A spreeth young fellow."
Spuddle. To stir about. Squat, Squot. To bruise by compression. Squelch. To fall
heavily. Staddle. The foundation of a corn or hay-rick. See Moor's " Suffolk Words.
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A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words: Obsolete ...
SPREATHED. Chopped with cold. West. SPRECKLED. Speckled. Var. diaL
SPREDD. The marynere set hur on hys hedd, Sche hadd soone aftur a hytrur
spredd. MS- (humb- Ff- ll. 38, f. 238. SPREE. (l) Spruce; gay. Devon. (2) A merry
frolic.
James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, 1865
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Survey of English Dialects: The Dictionary and Grammar
... chashed, chilblained, chilled, chipped, chopped, choppy, cracked, cracked and
sore, flied, flied open, flue, fly, frayed, frost-bitten, frosted, full of keens, hacked,
hacky, hazled, keened, sore, spithey, sprayed, sprayed up, spreathed, spreazed,
...
Clive Upton, David Parry, John David Allison Widdowson, 1994
