Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A young hawk; an eyas.
- noun A ninny; a simpleton.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A young hawk; an eyas; hence, an unsophisticated person.
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- noun obsolete A
young hawk ; aneyas . - noun obsolete, by extension An
unsophisticated person.
Etymologies
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Examples
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It's EYE-as, and the etymology turns out to be worth knowing as well: Middle English eias, from an eias, alteration of *a nias, an eyas, from Old French niais, from Latin ni:dus, nest; see sed- in Indo-European roots AHD.
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So eyas, like orange and umpire, is the result of metanalysis false division of the article + noun unit: "a nias" "an eyas".
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[807] Prosphatōs genomenos en Ankura tēs Galatias kai katalabōn tēn kata topon (not Ponton) ekklēsian hupo tēs nias tautēs .... pseudoprophēteias diatethrulēmenēn (“When I was recently at Ancyra in Galatia, I found the local church quite upset by this novel form .... of false prophecy”).
The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908
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People / Citizens / AmeriCO. nias are about to find out the the SHIT is getting ready to hit the fan.
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Persicam servitu - tem fugientes hic sibi sedes quaesiverey subinde aucta potentia non in vicina mo* do litora, sed, et iptam Hispaniam colo - nias deduxere» ipsi etiam barbarae Gal* liae saiutares inductis artibus moribus - que Graecis.
Doctrina nvmorvm vetervm conscripta a Josepho Eckhel .. Joseph Hilarius von Eckhel, Anton von Steinbüchel, Aubin Louis Millin, Emerich Thomas Hohler 1792
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Compare the account here given by Herodotus with Pauia - nias, 1.x. c. i, and the Stratagemata of Polyaenus, L vi c. i8«* -
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In the year 560, a great body of Hunna attempted to fettle in Gaul, but were defeated by Sigebert, king of the Fraoka, ib. la the time of Chtfiemagne the Hunna were mailers of Dacia, Mcefia, and both Panoo* nias, but were entirely reduced by him, f66»
An universal history, from the earliest accounts to the present time 1781
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Pleni funtcceli Bc tcrra * maicftitis gl6riae nias.
Breviarium ecclesiæ Rotomagensis Rouen diocese 1777
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Ordincm flatuit fupra conftiru - tum talem, uC quotidie Canticura Gradujm diccrent* ad Miffam Lita - nias quotidianis diebus facerent; & familiares Pfalmcs fuper Formas can - tarent.
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The Commissioners appointed by the supe - nias, Boston.,
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