Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The armed or feruled end of a staff; in a sheephook, the end of the staff to which the hook is attached.
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- noun The
armed orferuled end of astaff . - noun The end of a
sheephook to which thehook is attached.
Etymologies
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Examples
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I used to love that city, now I mourne its lost greatness.
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I used to love that city, now I mourne its lost greatness.
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Actually I just remembered, there are a couple of minutes you missed were they all mourne him.
Primeval Season 3 Episode 3: Why It Sucked « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS 2009
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Father (quoth she) well may you spare these teares, because they are unfitting for you, and not any way desired by me; who but your selfe, hath seene any man to mourne for his owne wilfull offence.
The Decameron 2004
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Rather he might finde out some milde course for the satisfaction of his anger, by committing them to close imprisonment, there to remaine and mourne for their folly committed.
The Decameron 2004
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Even as we mourne this horrifyin g defeat and contemplate on the misery our rulers will inflict on our own people and on millions across the globe, we should remember how we got here.
Post-election rant 2004
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But when she saw all her paines sort to no purpose, and darke night drawing swiftly on, hope and dismay raising infinite perturbations, made her yet to be somewhat respective of her selfe, and therefore departing from the sea-shore, she returned to the solitary place, where she used to sigh and mourne alone by her selfe.
The Decameron 2004
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Some mourne and kiepe dirige and Masse seuen daies continualle together, some ix. some xxx. or fourtye some, fiuetie, and a hundred, and other a whole yere, wrapped vp in blacke.
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[Sidenote: Feasting and dancing when they should mourne.]
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The man doth mourne for his wife two yeeres, the wife for her husband three yeeres: the sonne for his father a yeere, and for his mother two yeres.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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