Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A Middle English form of lion.

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Examples

  • October 28, 2009 at 4:06 pm me alzo. ai wish jezus wuz uh liun.

    JESUS CHRIST IT’S A LION - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007

  • Þe liun of prude sleað alle þe prude ·  {30} alle þe beoð hehe ⁊ ou {er} hohe iheortet.

    Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall

  • Ich habbe þeruore sar care for ich iseo seið warschipe hu þe  {150} unwhiht wið his ferd ase liun iburst. ȝeað abuten ure hus sechinde ȝeornliche hu he hit forswolhe. ⁊ tis ich mei seið warschipe warnin ow of his lað ⁊ for his wrenches. ah ich ne mei nawt aȝeines his strengðe.

    Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall

  • If FroviiJencc liun smiled on your exerttonn to accumulate pro | erty, i; '' it has mnde you the ntasters of cbiisiderablc wealih, remember it has also increased yoar obU - ntious to bestow a iioition of it on the destJUite.

    The Panoplist, and Missionary Magazine United 1813

  • Scctiou eighty-three of chapter four liun - dred and sixty-five of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and five, as amended by chapters two hundred and twelve and five hundred and four of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and six, is hereby further amended by striking out the word "continuous", wherever it occurs in the sixth, etc., amended.

    Acts and resolves passed by the General Court 1663

  • Chap. 521. 481 by sections one, six, eight, ten, sixteen and twenty-one of chapter tive hundred of the acts of the year eighteen liun - dred and ninety-seven, and such railway and appurtenances when constructed and its location shall be held by the com - pany by and upon the tenure prescribed in the first clause of section nineteen of said chapter five hundred ending with the words "Public Statutes", and with the same rights, privileges and immunities therein as are provided in either of said acts in respect to its elevated lines or structures.

    Acts and resolves passed by the General Court 1663

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