Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
foison .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
foison .
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- noun Obsolete form of
foison .
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Examples
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Bring foorth foyson when barren doeth them spoile:
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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Bring foorth foyson when barren doeth them spoile:
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393: To teeming foyson: euen so her plenteous wombe
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They found the Kaim-makam sitting beside a slave which was an old negress; and quoth he, "You have disappeared for a long while!" and quoth she, "Yes, until we had ended with the visits of condolence for that my mother was known to foyson of the folk.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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