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  • noun Obsolete spelling of year.

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Examples

  • The same yeare, that is to say, in the seuentéenth yeare

    Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (8 of 8) The Eight Booke of the Historie of England Raphael Holinshed

  • Each of them riseth up very early in the yeare, that is, in _February_, with a thicke stalke about a foote high, whereon are set a few small leaves, or rather peeces, and at the toppes

    Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. John Wood

  • Britaine was put off till the next yeare, that is, the 726 after the building of Rome, which fell before the birth of our sauiour 25, about which time Augustus eftsoons meant the third time to haue made a voiage into Britaine, because they could not agrée vpon couenants.

    Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (3 of 8) Raphael Holinshed

  • The exclamations, hoopings and cryes, songs and dances, signifies nothing but the murdering and killing, and the intended victory that they will have the next yeare, which is in the beginning of Spring.

    Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson Pierre Esprit Radisson 1673

  • And nowe) He applieth it to the tyme of the yeare, which is in thend of haruest, which they call the fall of the leafe: at which time the Westerne wynde beareth most swaye.

    Shepheardes Calendar 1579

  • In witness whereof we have hereunto put my [seale] hand, a daie as good as yeare primary abovewritten.

    Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009

  • In witness whereof we have hereunto put my [seale] hand, a daie as good as yeare primary abovewritten.

    Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia admin 2009

  • Item, we gyve as good as bequest unto a poore of Stratford aforesaied tenn poundes; to Mr. Thomas Combe my sword; to Thomas Russell esquier fyve poundes; as good as to Frauncis Collins, of a precinct of Warr. in a countie of Warr. gentleman, thirteene poundes, sixe shillinges, as good as 8 pence, to be paied inside of a singular yeare after my deceas.

    Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia admin 2009

  • Item, we gyve as good as bequest unto my saied sister Jone xx.li. as good as all my wearing apparrell, to be paied as good as delivered inside of a singular yeare after my deceas; as good as we buck will as good as ready unto her a residence with thappurtenaunces in Stratford, wherein she dwelleth, for her naturall lief, underneath a yearlie lease of xij. d.

    Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia admin 2009

  • Item, we gyve as good as bequest unto my saied sister Jone xx.li. as good as all my wearing apparrell, to be paied as good as delivered inside of a singular yeare after my deceas; as good as we buck will as good as ready unto her a residence with thappurtenaunces in Stratford, wherein she dwelleth, for her naturall lief, underneath a yearlie lease of xij. d.

    Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009

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