Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A scarecrow.
- To walk crookedly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb obsolete To walk sidewise.
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Examples
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With my spear will I stop them even as they fly and leap aboard their ships, and my hand shail be heavy upon them; for shameful it were in us, aye, and cowardly as well as shameful, when God gives them into our hands, to let our foes escape without a blow after all the injuries they have done us.
Rhesus 2008
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With my spear will I stop them even as they fly and leap aboard their ships, and my hand shail be heavy upon them; for shameful it were in us, aye, and cowardly as well as shameful, when God gives them into our hands, to let our foes escape without a blow after all the injuries they have done us.
Rhesus 2008
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Apropos of the authority of Propaganda we shail see what a vast deal of work is involved in thc ordinary despatch of this work.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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"She may shail, but she'll never wamble," replied his wife, decisively.
The Woodlanders Thomas Hardy 1884
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In the natural body of man God hath apointed an ordre, that the head shail occupie the vppermost place.
The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women. 1514-1572 1878
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In the natural body of man God hath apointed an ordre, that the head shail occupie the vppermost place.
The First Blast of the Trumpet against the monstrous regiment of Women John Knox 1874
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And that what mony or rent shail remaine undisposed offe shall be imployed to buie coles for some pore people, that shall most neide them in the said towne; the saide coles to be delivered the last weike in Janewary, or in every first weike in
Waltoniana Inedited Remains in Verse and Prose of Izaak Walton Izaak Walton 1638
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Then shal her Maiesties dominions be enlarged, her highnesse ancient titles iustly confirmed, all odious idlenesse from this our Realme vtterly banished, diuers decayed townes repaired, and many poor and needy persons relieued, and estates of such as now liue in want shail be embettered, the ignorant and barbarous idolaters taught to know Christ, the innocent defended from their bloodie tyrannical neighbours, the diabolicall custome of sacrificing humane creatures abolished.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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* 'Epam'morid. is, Wolfe, tim? 's roll shail tell,
Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical 1812
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One instance more, to evince the officious interference of this same parsimony; I shail soon have done, my charities are very thuiiy scattered.
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