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There horse beinge tayed on a balke, is ready with theefe for to walke | walk | /dictionary/walk_v?tab=factsheet#15249946 | null | null | v. | 7 | Old English– | To move or travel at a regular and fairly slow pace by lifting and setting down each foot in turn, so… intransitive. Chiefly with adverb or adverbial… | c1450– | ["IV. To move about on foot, and related senses.", "IV.13. To go away, leave, depart.", "intransitive . \u2020Of an animal: to be stolen ( obsolete ). Of a thing: to be got rid of; to be carried off; (in later colloquial use) to go missing and be presumed to have been borrowed or stolen. \u2020 to let ( something ) wal... | 1,450 | null | 1570 | There horse beinge tayed on a balke, is ready with theefe for to walke . | T. Tusser , Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandry (new edition) f. 23 v | 1,570 |
Their Horse being ty'd on a Balk, Is ready with Thief for to walk | walk | /dictionary/walk_v?tab=factsheet#15249946 | null | null | v. | 7 | Old English– | To move or travel at a regular and fairly slow pace by lifting and setting down each foot in turn, so… intransitive. Chiefly with adverb or adverbial… | c1450– | ["IV. To move about on foot, and related senses.", "IV.13. To go away, leave, depart.", "intransitive . \u2020Of an animal: to be stolen ( obsolete ). Of a thing: to be got rid of; to be carried off; (in later colloquial use) to go missing and be presumed to have been borrowed or stolen. \u2020 to let ( something ) wal... | 1,450 | null | 1653 | Their Horse being ty'd on a Balk, Is ready with Thief for to walk . | W. Blith , English Improver Improved (new edition) xiii. 89 | 1,653 |
Such commissions could never extend to cutlery, which, if interesting, tended to ‘ walk | walk | /dictionary/walk_v?tab=factsheet#15249946 | null | null | v. | 7 | Old English– | To move or travel at a regular and fairly slow pace by lifting and setting down each foot in turn, so… intransitive. Chiefly with adverb or adverbial… | c1450– | ["IV. To move about on foot, and related senses.", "IV.13. To go away, leave, depart.", "intransitive . \u2020Of an animal: to be stolen ( obsolete ). Of a thing: to be got rid of; to be carried off; (in later colloquial use) to go missing and be presumed to have been borrowed or stolen. \u2020 to let ( something ) wal... | 1,450 | null | 1989 | Such commissions could never extend to cutlery, which, if interesting, tended to ‘ walk ’. | Times 21 September 13/6 | 1,989 |
Mark Ramprakash spooned one up to extra cover, Jacques Kallis lurched forward to scoop up the catch, yet Ramps didn't walk | walk | /dictionary/walk_v?tab=factsheet#15249946 | null | null | v. | 7 | Old English– | To move or travel at a regular and fairly slow pace by lifting and setting down each foot in turn, so… intransitive. Chiefly with adverb or adverbial… | 1960– | ["IV. To move about on foot, and related senses.", "IV.13. To go away, leave, depart.", "intransitive . Cricket . Of a batter: to dismiss oneself voluntarily by walking towards the pavilion without waiting to be given out by the umpire; also with out ."] | 1,960 | null | 1998 | Mark Ramprakash spooned one up to extra cover, Jacques Kallis lurched forward to scoop up the catch, yet Ramps didn't walk . | Birmingham Post (Nexis) 1 August 9 | 1,998 |
Our baby sitter founded the Sitters' Union. They get TV, cookies, and root beer, or they walk | walk | /dictionary/walk_v?tab=factsheet#15249946 | null | null | v. | 7 | Old English– | To move or travel at a regular and fairly slow pace by lifting and setting down each foot in turn, so… intransitive. Chiefly with adverb or adverbial… | 1976– | ["IV. To move about on foot, and related senses.", "IV.13. To go away, leave, depart.", "intransitive . = to walk out 3a at Phrasal verbs 3a , to walk out 3b at Phrasal verbs 3b . Also: to quit a job. Cf. also to walk away at Phrasal verbs PV.1 ."] | 1,976 | null | 1976 | Our baby sitter founded the Sitters' Union. They get TV, cookies, and root beer, or they walk . | National Observer (U.S.) 14 August 16/3 | 1,976 |
Carey called a strike, and all four thousand of his UPS members walked | walk | /dictionary/walk_v?tab=factsheet#15249946 | null | null | v. | 7 | Old English– | To move or travel at a regular and fairly slow pace by lifting and setting down each foot in turn, so… intransitive. Chiefly with adverb or adverbial… | 1976– | ["IV. To move about on foot, and related senses.", "IV.13. To go away, leave, depart.", "intransitive . = to walk out 3a at Phrasal verbs 3a , to walk out 3b at Phrasal verbs 3b . Also: to quit a job. Cf. also to walk away at Phrasal verbs PV.1 ."] | 1,976 | null | 1978 | Carey called a strike, and all four thousand of his UPS members walked . | S. Brill , Teamsters v. 180 | 1,978 |
After multiple bad experiences..the vast majority [of customers] do not fill out a survey or complain—they just walk | walk | /dictionary/walk_v?tab=factsheet#15249946 | null | null | v. | 7 | Old English– | To move or travel at a regular and fairly slow pace by lifting and setting down each foot in turn, so… intransitive. Chiefly with adverb or adverbial… | 1976– | ["IV. To move about on foot, and related senses.", "IV.13. To go away, leave, depart.", "intransitive . = to walk out 3a at Phrasal verbs 3a , to walk out 3b at Phrasal verbs 3b . Also: to quit a job. Cf. also to walk away at Phrasal verbs PV.1 ."] | 1,976 | null | 2007 | After multiple bad experiences..the vast majority [of customers] do not fill out a survey or complain—they just walk . | M. G. Brown , Beyond Balanced Scorecard iv. 81 | 2,007 |
Aire, Water, Earth, By Fowl, Fish, Beast, was flown, was swum, was walkt | walk | /dictionary/walk_v?tab=factsheet#15249946 | null | null | v. | 7 | Old English– | To move or travel at a regular and fairly slow pace by lifting and setting down each foot in turn, so… intransitive. Chiefly with adverb or adverbial… | 1574– | ["IV. To move about on foot, and related senses.", "transitive . To move on foot upon (a surface, the ground, the sea, etc.); to tread. Cf. to walk on water at Phrases P.18 ."] | 1,574 | null | 1667 | Aire, Water, Earth, By Fowl, Fish, Beast, was flown, was swum, was walkt . | J. Milton , Paradise Lost vii. 503 | 1,667 |
Why shall a Man practise Coupees, who only means to walk | walk | /dictionary/walk_v?tab=factsheet#15249946 | null | null | v. | 7 | Old English– | To move or travel at a regular and fairly slow pace by lifting and setting down each foot in turn, so… intransitive. Chiefly with adverb or adverbial… | a1628– | ["IV. To move about on foot, and related senses.", "IV.16. With emphasis on the gait or pace.", "intransitive . Of a human being or other biped, contrasted with run , hop , etc. Cf. walk n. 1 II.8 ."] | 1,628 | null | 1760 | Why shall a Man practise Coupees, who only means to walk ? | R. Griffith & E. Griffith , Letters Henry & Frances (ed. 2) vol. II. ccxxi. 144 | 1,760 |
Among the land-birds, the grouse, pigeon, quails, larks, and various blackbirds, walk | walk | /dictionary/walk_v?tab=factsheet#15249946 | null | null | v. | 7 | Old English– | To move or travel at a regular and fairly slow pace by lifting and setting down each foot in turn, so… intransitive. Chiefly with adverb or adverbial… | a1628– | ["IV. To move about on foot, and related senses.", "IV.16. With emphasis on the gait or pace.", "intransitive . Of a human being or other biped, contrasted with run , hop , etc. Cf. walk n. 1 II.8 ."] | 1,628 | null | 1871 | Among the land-birds, the grouse, pigeon, quails, larks, and various blackbirds, walk . | J. Burroughs , Wake-robin 222 | 1,871 |
If the Christian Democrats put enough candidates up at the next election they'll walk | walk | /dictionary/walk_v?tab=factsheet#15249946 | null | null | v. | 7 | Old English– | To move or travel at a regular and fairly slow pace by lifting and setting down each foot in turn, so… intransitive. Chiefly with adverb or adverbial… | 1779– | ["IV. To move about on foot, and related senses.", "IV.16. With emphasis on the gait or pace.", "intransitive . To win a contest easily or without effort, in various phrases."] | 1,779 | null | 1977 | If the Christian Democrats put enough candidates up at the next election they'll walk in . | P. Hill , Fanatics 125 | 1,977 |
He's doing Common Entrance this year—we've put him down for Eton, and according to his head teacher, he's expected to walk | walk | /dictionary/walk_v?tab=factsheet#15249946 | null | null | v. | 7 | Old English– | To move or travel at a regular and fairly slow pace by lifting and setting down each foot in turn, so… intransitive. Chiefly with adverb or adverbial… | 1937– | ["IV. To move about on foot, and related senses.", "IV.16. With emphasis on the gait or pace.", "intransitive , and transitive with it as object. colloquial . Esp. in a sporting contest: to win easily; (more generally) to achieve (one's aim) with little effort."] | 1,937 | null | 2005 | He's doing Common Entrance this year—we've put him down for Eton, and according to his head teacher, he's expected to walk it. | L. Kellaway , Who moved my Blackberry? (2006) i. 10 | 2,005 |
Up here in the north all the jazzmen are playing too fast or too slow—nobody walks | walk | /dictionary/walk_v?tab=factsheet#15249946 | null | null | v. | 7 | Old English– | To move or travel at a regular and fairly slow pace by lifting and setting down each foot in turn, so… intransitive. Chiefly with adverb or adverbial… | 1951– | ["IV. To move about on foot, and related senses.", "IV.16. With emphasis on the gait or pace.", "intransitive . Jazz . To play a walking bass or walking beat. See walking bass n. , walking beat n. . Also occasionally transitive ."] | 1,951 | null | 1952 | Up here in the north all the jazzmen are playing too fast or too slow—nobody walks . | Mademoiselle December 118 | 1,952 |
A seemely sight it was to see the seamen plye their teeth, Wherewith the Cups apace they walke | walk | /dictionary/walk_v?tab=factsheet#15249946 | null | null | v. | 7 | Old English– | To move or travel at a regular and fairly slow pace by lifting and setting down each foot in turn, so… intransitive. Chiefly with adverb or adverbial… | 1581 | ["V. Causative uses.", "V.23. With a thing as object.", "\u2020 transitive . To send round (drink). Cf. sense II.5g . Obsolete . rare ."] | 1,581 | null | 1581 | A seemely sight it was to see the seamen plye their teeth, Wherewith the Cups apace they walke . | A. Hall , translation of Homer, 10 Books of Iliades i. 14 | 1,581 |
Affections were transferred to the two foxhound puppies which were sent each year to be ‘ walked | walk | /dictionary/walk_v?tab=factsheet#15249946 | null | null | v. | 7 | Old English– | To move or travel at a regular and fairly slow pace by lifting and setting down each foot in turn, so… intransitive. Chiefly with adverb or adverbial… | 1845– | ["V. Causative uses.", "transitive . To train and look after (a young hound). Cf. at walk at walk n. 1 III.17 ."] | 1,845 | null | 1983 | Affections were transferred to the two foxhound puppies which were sent each year to be ‘ walked ’. | Duchess of Gloucester , Mem. ii. 18 | 1,983 |
In our Marshes and Fens..where great Quantities of Land being..recovered out of the Seas and Rivers, and maintain'd with Banks (which they call Walls | wall | /dictionary/wall_n1?tab=factsheet#15262599 | null | null | n.¹ | 7 | Old English– | A defensive structure enclosing a city, castle, etc. Chiefly plural, fortifications. | 1330– | ["I. An enclosing or defensive structure, and related uses.", "An embankment to hold back the water of a river or the sea. Cf. seawall n."] | 1,330 | null | 1697 | In our Marshes and Fens..where great Quantities of Land being..recovered out of the Seas and Rivers, and maintain'd with Banks (which they call Walls ). | D. Defoe , Essay upon Projects 121 | 1,697 |
He stopped, and looked along the rosy dike, uttered a hasty exclamation, and ran down the wall | wall | /dictionary/wall_n1?tab=factsheet#15262599 | null | null | n.¹ | 7 | Old English– | A defensive structure enclosing a city, castle, etc. Chiefly plural, fortifications. | 1330– | ["I. An enclosing or defensive structure, and related uses.", "An embankment to hold back the water of a river or the sea. Cf. seawall n."] | 1,330 | null | 1898 | He stopped, and looked along the rosy dike, uttered a hasty exclamation, and ran down the wall . | P. H. Emerson , Marsh Leaves (revised edition) lix. 179 | 1,898 |
The devout on earth will ever be found within the Church's walls | wall | /dictionary/wall_n1?tab=factsheet#15262599 | null | null | n.¹ | 7 | Old English– | A defensive structure enclosing a city, castle, etc. Chiefly plural, fortifications. | 1600– | ["I. An enclosing or defensive structure, and related uses.", "within the walls : within the ancient boundaries (of a city) as distinguished from the suburbs; hence figurative within the limits (of the Church, \u2020Europe, \u2020Christendom, etc.)"] | 1,600 | null | 1860 | The devout on earth will ever be found within the Church's walls . | J. W. Warter , Sea-board & Down vol. II. 468 | 1,860 |
We will leave our homes unguarded—our hearts shall be their wall | wall | /dictionary/wall_n1?tab=factsheet#15262599 | null | null | n.¹ | 7 | Old English– | A defensive structure enclosing a city, castle, etc. Chiefly plural, fortifications. | 1412– | ["I. An enclosing or defensive structure, and related uses.", "I.3. figurative .", "Applied to a person or thing that serves as a defence."] | 1,412 | null | 1838 | We will leave our homes unguarded—our hearts shall be their wall ! | E. Bulwer-Lytton , Leila v. i. 222 | 1,838 |
A most stately Grove of Cocoes and Oranges..surrounded by a Wall | wall | /dictionary/wall_n1?tab=factsheet#15262599 | null | null | n.¹ | 7 | Old English– | A defensive structure enclosing a city, castle, etc. Chiefly plural, fortifications. | a1400– | ["I. An enclosing or defensive structure, and related uses.", "I.4. An enclosing structure composed of bricks, stones, or similar materials laid in courses. hollow wall , a wall built with an interior cavity or composed of hollow bricks. For blind , boulder , cob , dead , hot , list , rubble wall , etc., see those word... | 1,400 | null | 1698 | A most stately Grove of Cocoes and Oranges..surrounded by a Wall . | J. Fryer , New Account of East-India & Persia 7 | 1,698 |
All such as have been defrauded of their Right to the Wall | wall | /dictionary/wall_n1?tab=factsheet#15262599 | null | null | n.¹ | 7 | Old English– | A defensive structure enclosing a city, castle, etc. Chiefly plural, fortifications. | 1606– | ["I. An enclosing or defensive structure, and related uses.", "I.4. An enclosing structure composed of bricks, stones, or similar materials laid in courses. hollow wall , a wall built with an interior cavity or composed of hollow bricks. For blind , boulder , cob , dead , hot , list , rubble wall , etc., see those word... | 1,606 | null | 1710 | All such as have been defrauded of their Right to the Wall . | J. Addison , Tatler No. 250. ⁋11 | 1,710 |
My father had his legs blown off..when he tried to flee over the Wall | wall | /dictionary/wall_n1?tab=factsheet#15262599 | null | null | n.¹ | 7 | Old English– | A defensive structure enclosing a city, castle, etc. Chiefly plural, fortifications. | 1961– | ["I. An enclosing or defensive structure, and related uses.", "I.4. An enclosing structure composed of bricks, stones, or similar materials laid in courses. hollow wall , a wall built with an interior cavity or composed of hollow bricks. For blind , boulder , cob , dead , hot , list , rubble wall , etc., see those word... | 1,961 | null | 1977 | My father had his legs blown off..when he tried to flee over the Wall . | G. Markstein , Chance Awakening lxxviii. 243 | 1,977 |
Yet he sent..garden-herbs and fruit, The late and early roses from his wall | wall | /dictionary/wall_n1?tab=factsheet#15262599 | null | null | n.¹ | 7 | Old English– | A defensive structure enclosing a city, castle, etc. Chiefly plural, fortifications. | 1699– | ["I. An enclosing or defensive structure, and related uses.", "I.6. A wall considered with regard to its surface.", "A garden- or house-wall upon which fruit trees and flowering trees are trained."] | 1,699 | null | 1864 | Yet he sent..garden-herbs and fruit, The late and early roses from his wall . | Lord Tennyson , Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 19 | 1,864 |
They habitually looked on the sunny side of the wall | wall | /dictionary/wall_n1?tab=factsheet#15262599 | null | null | n.¹ | 7 | Old English– | A defensive structure enclosing a city, castle, etc. Chiefly plural, fortifications. | 1699– | ["I. An enclosing or defensive structure, and related uses.", "I.6. A wall considered with regard to its surface.", "A garden- or house-wall upon which fruit trees and flowering trees are trained."] | 1,699 | null | 1857 | They habitually looked on the sunny side of the wall . | A. Trollope , Barchester Towers vol. I. xix. 287 | 1,857 |
Thereafter, the other players, in counterclockwise rotation, each draw one tile, which may be the last discarded tile or a loose tile from the ‘ wall | wall | /dictionary/wall_n1?tab=factsheet#15262599 | null | null | n.¹ | 7 | Old English– | A defensive structure enclosing a city, castle, etc. Chiefly plural, fortifications. | 1922– | ["II. Transferred uses.", "In the game of mah-jong, the arrangement of tiles from which hands are drawn. Cf. tile n. 1 4b ."] | 1,922 | null | 1974 | Thereafter, the other players, in counterclockwise rotation, each draw one tile, which may be the last discarded tile or a loose tile from the ‘ wall ’. | Encyclopædia Britannica Micropædia vol. VI. 503/3 | 1,974 |
The ball was hit far over his head to the center field wall | wall | /dictionary/wall_n1?tab=factsheet#15262599 | null | null | n.¹ | 7 | Old English– | A defensive structure enclosing a city, castle, etc. Chiefly plural, fortifications. | 1928– | ["II. Transferred uses.", "Baseball . The barrier marking the outer perimeter of the outfield."] | 1,928 | null | 1928 | The ball was hit far over his head to the center field wall . | G. H. Ruth , Babe Ruth's Own Book of Baseball 117 | 1,928 |
The closest the Reds had come to a hit was Pete Rose's long drive to left-center in the third that Jim Dwyer caught at the wall | wall | /dictionary/wall_n1?tab=factsheet#15262599 | null | null | n.¹ | 7 | Old English– | A defensive structure enclosing a city, castle, etc. Chiefly plural, fortifications. | 1928– | ["II. Transferred uses.", "Baseball . The barrier marking the outer perimeter of the outfield."] | 1,928 | null | 1973 | The closest the Reds had come to a hit was Pete Rose's long drive to left-center in the third that Jim Dwyer caught at the wall . | International Herald Tribune 15 June 15/3 | 1,973 |
You thinke it strange..To see me low laie off effeminate robes, And arme my bodie in an iron wall | wall | /dictionary/wall_n1?tab=factsheet#15262599 | null | null | n.¹ | 7 | Old English– | A defensive structure enclosing a city, castle, etc. Chiefly plural, fortifications. | 1594– | ["II. Transferred uses.", "Something that confines or encloses like the wall of a house, prison, etc.; chiefly plural , the containing sides of a vessel, the vertical sides of a tent, and the like."] | 1,594 | null | 1594 | You thinke it strange..To see me low laie off effeminate robes, And arme my bodie in an iron wall . | 1st Part of Raigne of Selimus D 1 | 1,594 |
Lid the flan with pastry, having egged the top of the ‘ wall | wall | /dictionary/wall_n1?tab=factsheet#15262599 | null | null | n.¹ | 7 | Old English– | A defensive structure enclosing a city, castle, etc. Chiefly plural, fortifications. | 1747– | ["II. Transferred uses.", "The pastry forming the sides of a pie."] | 1,747 | null | 1959 | Lid the flan with pastry, having egged the top of the ‘ wall ’. | Listener 22 January 191/2 | 1,959 |
The first set [of workmen] curves or pools the coal along the whole line of walls | wall | /dictionary/wall_n1?tab=factsheet#15262599 | null | null | n.¹ | 7 | Old English– | A defensive structure enclosing a city, castle, etc. Chiefly plural, fortifications. | 1750– | ["II. Transferred uses.", "II.10. Mining .", "Coal Mining . (See quot. 1883 1 .)"] | 1,750 | null | 1839 | The first set [of workmen] curves or pools the coal along the whole line of walls . | A. Ure , Dictionary of Arts 979 | 1,839 |
These [adipose] vesicles are so thin that it is impossible to distinguish their walls | wall | /dictionary/wall_n1?tab=factsheet#15262599 | null | null | n.¹ | 7 | Old English– | A defensive structure enclosing a city, castle, etc. Chiefly plural, fortifications. | 1682– | ["II. Transferred uses.", "Anatomy and Zoology . The membranous investment or lining tissue (of any organ or cavity of the body, of a vesicle, tumour, and the like). Also Botany , the cellulose membrane (of a cell)."] | 1,682 | null | 1830 | These [adipose] vesicles are so thin that it is impossible to distinguish their walls . | R. Knox , translation of P. A. Béclard, Elements of General Anatomy 85 | 1,830 |
By þys tale ȝe mowe se alle þat fals sweryng wyl euyl befalle, Namlyche, on þe halydom whan he ys charged of any whom | whom | /dictionary/whom_pron?tab=factsheet#14414460 | null | null | pron. | 7 | Old English– | As indirect object (in Old English dative) (now rare) or as object of a preposition (or after than). In direct questions. | a1400 | ["pronoun The objective case of the personal interrogative and relative pronoun, corresponding to the subjective who pron. In Old English the dative or accusative case; cf. the discussion in the etymology.", "II. \u2020\u00a0Indefinite (non-relative) use.", "II.4. As direct object, indirect object, or object of a prepo... | 1,400 | null | a1400 | By þys tale ȝe mowe se alle þat fals sweryng wyl euyl befalle, Namlyche, on þe halydom whan he ys charged of any whom . | R. Mannyng , Handlyng Synne (Harley MS.) l. 2725 (Middle English Dictionary) | 1,400 |
Not only did each of these famous whales enjoy great individual celebrity—nay, you may call it an ocean- wide | wide | /dictionary/wide_adj?tab=factsheet#14447018 | null | null | adj. | 7 | Old English– | Having great spatial extent, esp. horizontally; vast, extensive, spacious, ample. In later use chiefly as a conventional epithet of words denoting an… | 1845– | ["I. Having great extent; extensive.", "As the final element in combination with nouns denoting regions, areas, organizations, etc., with the sense \u2018extending over or throughout the whole area of \u2014\u2014 ; affecting or reaching the whole of \u2014\u2014 \u2019."] | 1,845 | null | 1851 | Not only did each of these famous whales enjoy great individual celebrity—nay, you may call it an ocean- wide renown. | H. Melville , Moby-Dick xlv. 226 | 1,851 |
Though his Verses are most Elegant,..yet the description is very wide | wide | /dictionary/wide_adj?tab=factsheet#14447018 | null | null | adj. | 7 | Old English– | Having great spatial extent, esp. horizontally; vast, extensive, spacious, ample. In later use chiefly as a conventional epithet of words denoting an… | 1662– | ["I. Having great extent; extensive.", "Of a word, description, etc.: having a broad range of meaning or application; general, loose; inexplicit, vague."] | 1,662 | null | 1698 | Though his Verses are most Elegant,..yet the description is very wide . | J. Fryer , New Account of East-India & Persia 288 | 1,698 |
Later scholars have substituted the terms tense and lax for narrow and wide | wide | /dictionary/wide_adj?tab=factsheet#14447018 | null | null | adj. | 7 | Old English– | Having great spatial extent, esp. horizontally; vast, extensive, spacious, ample. In later use chiefly as a conventional epithet of words denoting an… | 1824– | ["III. Senses relating to a large interval, space, or difference between things or people.", "Phonetics . Of a vowel sound: pronounced with the muscles involved (esp. those of the tongue) in a relatively relaxed state; pronounced with a relatively wide opening of the mouth or (now esp.) of the pharyngeal cavity. Cf. la... | 1,824 | null | 1949 | Later scholars have substituted the terms tense and lax for narrow and wide . | R.-M. S. Heffner , General Phonetics v. 96 | 1,949 |
Thee, Druna , thee Druentia that doth glide With winding course betweene his bancks so wide | wide | /dictionary/wide_adj?tab=factsheet#14447018 | null | null | adj. | 7 | Old English– | Having great spatial extent, esp. horizontally; vast, extensive, spacious, ample. In later use chiefly as a conventional epithet of words denoting an… | ?a1425– | ["III. Senses relating to a large interval, space, or difference between things or people.", "Of two or more things: set far apart; widely spaced. Also of a thing: having widely-spaced constituent elements."] | 1,425 | null | 1635 | Thee, Druna , thee Druentia that doth glide With winding course betweene his bancks so wide . | W. Saltonstall , translation of G. Mercator, Historia Mundi 368 | 1,635 |
The Duc of Burgone..Made grete assemble in landes wide | wide | /dictionary/wide_adj?tab=factsheet#14447018 | null | null | adj. | 7 | Old English– | Having great spatial extent, esp. horizontally; vast, extensive, spacious, ample. In later use chiefly as a conventional epithet of words denoting an… | c1425–1854 | ["III. Senses relating to a large interval, space, or difference between things or people.", "\u2020\u00a0Situated a considerable distance away; distant, far off. Chiefly with of or from : situated at a specified distance from. Obsolete ."] | 1,425 | 1,854 | c1450 | The Duc of Burgone..Made grete assemble in landes wide . | Siege Calais (Rome MS.) in PMLA (1952) vol. 67 890 (Middle English Dictionary) | 1,450 |
Q: Yee conclude then, that..the actions of the diuel and al the wicked, are measured and directed by his [ sc. God's] prouidence... A: Or els it were wide | wide | /dictionary/wide_adj?tab=factsheet#14447018 | null | null | adj. | 7 | Old English– | Having great spatial extent, esp. horizontally; vast, extensive, spacious, ample. In later use chiefly as a conventional epithet of words denoting an… | 1545–1657 | ["III. Senses relating to a large interval, space, or difference between things or people.", "III.10. Chiefly in predicative use.", "\u2020\u00a0Not in accordance with the proper or desirable order of society, morality, etc.; inappropriate, unsuitable, improper. Obsolete ."] | 1,545 | 1,657 | 1583 | Q: Yee conclude then, that..the actions of the diuel and al the wicked, are measured and directed by his [ sc. God's] prouidence... A: Or els it were wide with vs. | G. Gifford , Catechisme sig. A7 | 1,583 |
Whoso heareth him, maye..thinke that he also with very litle a doe, mighte attaine to that perfection, but whan he commeth to the proofe shall finde himselfe farre wide | wide | /dictionary/wide_adj?tab=factsheet#14447018 | null | null | adj. | 7 | Old English– | Having great spatial extent, esp. horizontally; vast, extensive, spacious, ample. In later use chiefly as a conventional epithet of words denoting an… | 1547–1830 | ["III. Senses relating to a large interval, space, or difference between things or people.", "III.10. Chiefly in predicative use.", "\u2020\u00a0Far from the truth; that errs in opinion or belief; mistaken. Obsolete ."] | 1,547 | 1,830 | 1561 | Whoso heareth him, maye..thinke that he also with very litle a doe, mighte attaine to that perfection, but whan he commeth to the proofe shall finde himselfe farre wide . | T. Hoby , translation of B. Castiglione, Courtyer i. sig. F.iiii v | 1,561 |
Lear . Yar a spirit I know, where did you dye. Cord . Still, still, farre wide | wide | /dictionary/wide_adj?tab=factsheet#14447018 | null | null | adj. | 7 | Old English– | Having great spatial extent, esp. horizontally; vast, extensive, spacious, ample. In later use chiefly as a conventional epithet of words denoting an… | 1547–1830 | ["III. Senses relating to a large interval, space, or difference between things or people.", "III.10. Chiefly in predicative use.", "\u2020\u00a0Far from the truth; that errs in opinion or belief; mistaken. Obsolete ."] | 1,547 | 1,830 | 1608 | Lear . Yar a spirit I know, where did you dye. Cord . Still, still, farre wide . | W. Shakespeare , King Lear xxi. 48 | 1,608 |
Warning guns were fired from the fort; the first shots were wide | wide | /dictionary/wide_adj?tab=factsheet#14447018 | null | null | adj. | 7 | Old English– | Having great spatial extent, esp. horizontally; vast, extensive, spacious, ample. In later use chiefly as a conventional epithet of words denoting an… | a1535– | ["III. Senses relating to a large interval, space, or difference between things or people.", "Of a shot, throw, etc.: that misses to one side of a point aimed at (by a large distance); at a (large) distance to one side of an intended or correct target. Also in figurative contexts, esp. in wide of (also \u2020from) the ... | 1,535 | null | 1911 | Warning guns were fired from the fort; the first shots were wide . | U.S. Naval Inst. Proceedings December 1233 | 1,911 |
They were now headed for the safety of the open sea and the next shots were wide | wide | /dictionary/wide_adj?tab=factsheet#14447018 | null | null | adj. | 7 | Old English– | Having great spatial extent, esp. horizontally; vast, extensive, spacious, ample. In later use chiefly as a conventional epithet of words denoting an… | a1535– | ["III. Senses relating to a large interval, space, or difference between things or people.", "Of a shot, throw, etc.: that misses to one side of a point aimed at (by a large distance); at a (large) distance to one side of an intended or correct target. Also in figurative contexts, esp. in wide of (also \u2020from) the ... | 1,535 | null | 2014 | They were now headed for the safety of the open sea and the next shots were wide . | J. Stockwin , Pasha v. 140 | 2,014 |
Nero Caesar..had a Boy cut, as if hee would have transformed him into a Woman, and called him wife | wife | /dictionary/wife_n?tab=factsheet#14465858 | null | null | n. | 7 | Old English– | The (or a) female partner in a marriage; esp. a married woman considered in relation to her spouse. | 1549– | ["II. A married woman, and related senses.", "In (esp. same-sex) relationships, other than marriage, in which the two partners are regarded as occupying roles analogous to those in a traditional mixed-sex marriage: the person assuming the role regarded as more stereotypically feminine, i.e. as being equivalent to that ... | 1,549 | null | 1636 | Nero Caesar..had a Boy cut, as if hee would have transformed him into a Woman, and called him wife . | R. Basset , translation of G. A. de Paoli, Lives Roman Emperors 181 | 1,636 |
[Elagabalus] clothed himself like a Woman, was married to a vile Man, and used as his Wife | wife | /dictionary/wife_n?tab=factsheet#14465858 | null | null | n. | 7 | Old English– | The (or a) female partner in a marriage; esp. a married woman considered in relation to her spouse. | 1549– | ["II. A married woman, and related senses.", "In (esp. same-sex) relationships, other than marriage, in which the two partners are regarded as occupying roles analogous to those in a traditional mixed-sex marriage: the person assuming the role regarded as more stereotypically feminine, i.e. as being equivalent to that ... | 1,549 | null | 1692 | [Elagabalus] clothed himself like a Woman, was married to a vile Man, and used as his Wife . | O. Walker , Greek & Roman History ii. xiii. 250 | 1,692 |
Silius was converted by the insatiable Messalina into a Husband: and Sporus by the Monster Nero into a Wife | wife | /dictionary/wife_n?tab=factsheet#14465858 | null | null | n. | 7 | Old English– | The (or a) female partner in a marriage; esp. a married woman considered in relation to her spouse. | 1549– | ["II. A married woman, and related senses.", "In (esp. same-sex) relationships, other than marriage, in which the two partners are regarded as occupying roles analogous to those in a traditional mixed-sex marriage: the person assuming the role regarded as more stereotypically feminine, i.e. as being equivalent to that ... | 1,549 | null | 1754 | Silius was converted by the insatiable Messalina into a Husband: and Sporus by the Monster Nero into a Wife . | W. Hay , Deformity 67 | 1,754 |
She [ sc. a woman who has been passing as a married man] vehemently refuses to consent that any sum shall be set apart as a provision for her so-called wife | wife | /dictionary/wife_n?tab=factsheet#14465858 | null | null | n. | 7 | Old English– | The (or a) female partner in a marriage; esp. a married woman considered in relation to her spouse. | 1549– | ["II. A married woman, and related senses.", "In (esp. same-sex) relationships, other than marriage, in which the two partners are regarded as occupying roles analogous to those in a traditional mixed-sex marriage: the person assuming the role regarded as more stereotypically feminine, i.e. as being equivalent to that ... | 1,549 | null | 1838 | She [ sc. a woman who has been passing as a married man] vehemently refuses to consent that any sum shall be set apart as a provision for her so-called wife . | Jackson's Oxford Journal 21 April | 1,838 |
At his request, I was the husband and he was the wife | wife | /dictionary/wife_n?tab=factsheet#14465858 | null | null | n. | 7 | Old English– | The (or a) female partner in a marriage; esp. a married woman considered in relation to her spouse. | 1549– | ["II. A married woman, and related senses.", "In (esp. same-sex) relationships, other than marriage, in which the two partners are regarded as occupying roles analogous to those in a traditional mixed-sex marriage: the person assuming the role regarded as more stereotypically feminine, i.e. as being equivalent to that ... | 1,549 | null | 2010 | At his request, I was the husband and he was the wife . | M. Kramer in S. Habib, Islam & Homosexuality vol. I. vii. 138 | 2,010 |
I hope beloved that in a few years you will come to me and be my love my wife | wife | /dictionary/wife_n?tab=factsheet#14465858 | null | null | n. | 7 | Old English– | The (or a) female partner in a marriage; esp. a married woman considered in relation to her spouse. | 1896– | ["II. A married woman, and related senses.", "Used to denote either partner in a (generally long-term) relationship between two women."] | 1,896 | null | 1896 | I hope beloved that in a few years you will come to me and be my love my wife ! | A. W. Grimké in G. Beemyn, Queer Capital (2015) ii. 72 | 1,896 |
Her little Girl, whose Eyes were all over blubbered at the melancholy News she heard of Jones, who used to call her his little Wife | wife | /dictionary/wife_n?tab=factsheet#14465858 | null | null | n. | 7 | Old English– | The (or a) female partner in a marriage; esp. a married woman considered in relation to her spouse. | 1592–1822 | ["II. A married woman, and related senses.", "\u2020\u00a0Used as a term of affection for a close female friend (esp. of a man). Obsolete ."] | 1,592 | 1,822 | 1749 | Her little Girl, whose Eyes were all over blubbered at the melancholy News she heard of Jones, who used to call her his little Wife . | H. Fielding , Tom Jones vol. VI. xvii. ii. 97 | 1,749 |
Near Paris, where the rapid Sein do's glide, In a sub urban Villa did reside A single man; his Garden was his Wife | wife | /dictionary/wife_n?tab=factsheet#14465858 | null | null | n. | 7 | Old English– | The (or a) female partner in a marriage; esp. a married woman considered in relation to her spouse. | 1616– | ["II. A married woman, and related senses.", "Something likened to a wife in some way, esp. in being a constant companion. Cf. Dutch wife n. . Now rare ."] | 1,616 | null | 1672 | Near Paris, where the rapid Sein do's glide, In a sub urban Villa did reside A single man; his Garden was his Wife . | J. Evelyn , translation of R. Rapin, Of Gardens 50 | 1,672 |
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