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  • Men or Women set in polisht Stone, Iton, Brasse, Steele, Glasse, or the Nayles of ones hand; and this is called by the generall Name of Geomancie: And...
    758 bytes (99 words) - 11:58, 27 September 2024
  • and in certaine principall chapters, and speciall passages, hitteth the nayle on the head with a witnesse." nail the hammer on the head (rare) nail it...
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  • tooth-and-nail with tooth and nail From the Middle English phrase (with) nayles and teþ (“viciously, ferociously”, literally “(with) nails and teeth”)....
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  • haue bote of mi bale‥I am ded as dore-nail" and in the alliterative debate poem The Parlement of the Thre Ages "Dede als a dore-nayle doune was he fallen"...
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  • entytuled Metamorphosis‎[2], Book 1: Who tother day wyth arrowes kéene, haue nayled to the ground, The serpent Python so forswolne, whose filthie wombe did...
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  • Barret, he Theorike and Practike of Modern Warres: That the Ordinance be not nayled, nor the munition fiered. (transitive) To nail down: to make certain, or...
    31 KB (1,648 words) - 14:07, 21 November 2024
  • vvith his face bound vp, and ſcarred not by the hand of God, but by the nayles of a Cat (misfortunes annexed to Knight Errantry) ſixe dayes paſt ere hee...
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  • requited their queſtion vvith an other, as though a man ſhoulde dryue out one nayle vvith an other. 1935, Franz Kafka, “K.’s Uncle—Leni”, in Willa Muir, Edwin...
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  • Reg[an]. VVherefore to Douer ſir? / Gloſt[er, i.e., Gloucester]. Becauſe I vvould not ſee thy cruell nayles / Pluck out his poore old eyes, nor thy fierce...
    26 KB (3,369 words) - 18:28, 13 October 2024
  • named Hildebrand,” p. 177,[11] […] in a vessell being thick set with sharpe nayles, he tormented him to the poynt of death: 1660, Nathaniel Ingelo, Bentivolio...
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  • fortunes wheele: told him, hee might doe well to faſten it with a good ſtrong nayle, left turning about it, it might bring him, where hee was againe. As indeed...
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