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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
foin .
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Examples
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Mention spéciale au photographe qui souffrait assez violemment du rhume des foins.
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And then they avoided their horses, and pulled out their swords, and like two bulls they lashed together with great strokes and foins; but ever
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Cuts, thrusts, and foins at whomsoever he meets ...
Shakspere and Montaigne Jacob Feis
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At hand strokes they use not swords but pollaxes, which be mortal, as well in sharpness, as in weight, both for foins and down strokes.
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And then they avoided their horses, and pulled out their swords, and like two bulls they lashed together with great strokes and foins; but ever Sir Launcelot recovered ground upon him, and Sir Plenorius traced to have gone about him.
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Then his fence, Joceline, though the fellow foins well, very sufficient well.
Woodstock 1855
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Then his fence, Joceline, though the fellow foins well, very sufficient well.
Woodstock; or, the Cavalier Walter Scott 1801
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Ch'ill pick your teeth, zir: come; no matter vor your foins.
King Lear 1605
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Lobelia caule erecto, foins ovatîs subserratis 'pedùncuU lohgioribuSy capsulis inflatls» descripta. iïct: Sockt.
Catalogus bibliothecæ historico-naturalis Josephi Banks ... Auctore Jona Dryander, ... 1797
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Edition donnee par les foins de Gaillaume Maflieu.
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