Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • An obsolete form of slay.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A weaver's reed; a sley.

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  • noun A weaver's reed; a sley.

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Examples

  • Pressynge behynde, the Englysche soldyerres slaie.

    The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

  • Then sayde Saul vnto his wapebearer: Drawe out thy swerde, and thrust it thorow me, that these vncircumcised come not and slaie me, and make a laughinge stocke of me.

    Say Anything 2009

  • Then sayde Saul vnto his wapebearer: Drawe out thy swerde, and thrust it thorow me, that these vncircumcised come not and slaie me, and make a laughinge stocke of me.

    Say Anything 2009

  • Bituminous wood Bituminoeses holz. common earthy Stone coal brown iKoor pitch glance columoav slaie kennel gememer erdx Steinkohle braun moor pech glanz fatangen schiefejc kennel

    The Introductory Lecture of Thomas Cooper, Esq. Thomas Cooper 1812

  • The inhabitants of that towne suspecting the matter, and iudging (as the truth was) these rumors which the lords spred abroad to be but dreams, they tooke therevpon counsell togither, got them to armor, and stopped all the entries and outgates of the Innes where these new ghestes were lodged, insomuch that when they about midnight secretlie attempted to haue come foorth, and gone their waies, the townesmen with bow and arrowes were readie to slaie them, and keepe them in.

    Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV Raphael Holinshed

  • It was told him that he should die in the waie toward London, wherefore he feared lest the commons of the citie would arise in riotous maner and so slaie him, yet for all that he died in the waie toward London, carrieng more with him out of the worlde than he brought into it, namellie, a winding sheete, besides other necessaries thought meet for a dead man, as a Christian comelinesse required. "[

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 347, December 20, 1828 Various

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