Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete or dialectal form of
will . - An obsolete or dialectal form of
well .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb obsolete See 2d
will .
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Examples
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Note 33: "Ez kom oft die zit von genaden, daz sie die sweren buch als wol bedeuten kond als ein wol gelerter pfaff: als die zit denne vergink, so konde sie sin niht mer, wanne sie waz niht gelert."
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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Its noa use i 'th' world tawkin 'to Sarah when shoo gets reight on, soa aw nivver spake a word wol shoo'd finished, an' then aw sed,
Yorkshire Tales. Third Series Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect John Hartley 1877
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Note 65: "Sy hielt iren orden an allen dingen als volkumenlich als wir ie dekain schwester sachent tün; sy was vil die erst in dem kor und hielt sich da mit grossem fliss an naigen, an ston, und das sy gar endlich sang alles das sy kund, wie sy doch nit wol sang."
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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Note 111: do si eines tages in dem werchhus sass mit werch, das got gross wunder in ir wurkte, da von si nit volsagen kundi, won das si sprach: Got der gab mir sölich empfinden vnd als gross gnád, das mich dunkt, jch hett wol aller der welt gnüg geben.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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The Oxford English Dictionary cites 33 different spellings just for the 1st/3rd person singular form, running the gamut from will to welle to ool to wol.
Preposterous Apostrophes VII: Why Won’t Willn’t Work? « Motivated Grammar 2008
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Wy, ai r OOBARK, wol uv ICHC an flurt incurablolus.
Excellent…. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Chaucer: "And whoso fyndeth hym out of swich blame,/They wol come up..."
Archive 2008-10-01 2008
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Chaucer: "And whoso fyndeth hym out of swich blame,/They wol come up..."
One Story 2008
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Finally realizing that he has been burned by cynically playing with fire-and-brimstone, presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain has in quick-though-belated succession thrown to the wol ...
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Finally realizing that he has been burned by cynically playing with fire-and-brimstone, presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain has in quick-though-belated succession thrown to the wol ...
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