middle english definition of lorn
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lorn Lorn and forlorn are synonyms that can both mean desolate or forsaken.. The similarity in form and meaning of the two words is hardly a coincidence. Lorn comes down to us from loren, the Middle English past participle of the verb lesen (to lose), itself a descendent of the Old English lēosan. Similarly, forlorn comes from the Middle English forloren, a descendent of Old English verb forlēosan, which also means to lose..
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- [Middle English malignen, to attack, from Old French malignier, from Late Latin malignārī, from Latin malignus, malign; see genə- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots. Adj., from Middle English, from Old French, from Latin malignus.] ma·lign′er n. ma·lign′ly adv.
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- Hen Ogledd. From Wikishire. Yr Hen Ogledd, meaning The Old North, is a Welsh term used by poets and scholars for those parts of northern Britain, up to the Firth of Forth, in which were Welsh kingdoms in the years between 500 and the Viking invasions of around 800.
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- [Middle English refrein, from Old French refrain, alteration of refrait, past participle of refraindre, to break off, repeat, from Vulgar Latin *refrangere, to break off, alteration of Latin refringere; see refract.]
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churn churn ‎(third-person singular simple present churns, present participle churning, simple past and past participle churned). ( 1 transitive) To agitate rapidly and repetitively, or to stir with a rowing or rocking motion; generally applies to liquids, notably cream.
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- A bairn, wee 'un, child or littlin is a youthie body, a lad or lass. Whiles a bairn is defined as bein a body afore the oncome o puberty, a body afore the end o puberty, a body unner the age o majority, or itherweys.
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loon loon (plural loons) 1  idler, lout. ( 2 chiefly Scotland, Ulster) boy, lad. ( 3 chiefly Scotland) harlot; mistress. ( chiefly Scotland) 1  simpleton. (slang) crazy or deranged person. ( Ireland) English Soldier of an expeditionary army in Ireland.
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- Origin of saltern. Old English sealtærn from sealt, salt + ærn, house: see ransack
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- 1 hovel - A conical building enclosing a kiln. 2  oast - A kiln used to dry hops or malt or tobacco.  battledore - Can refer to various tools, such as the paddle of a canoe or a utensil for inserting loaves into an oven or wares into a kiln.
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barn 1 Old English bereærn barn, literally barley house, from bere barley (see barley) + aern house, metathesized from *rann, *rasn (cf. Old Norse rann, Gothic razn house, Old English rest resting place; sealtærn saltworks).
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lock-in to fasten with a lock, c.1300, from Old English lucan to lock, to close (class II strong verb; past tense leac, past participle locen), from the same root as lock (n.1). Cognate with Old Frisian luka to close, Old Saxon lukan, Old High German luhhan, Old Norse luka, Gothic galukan.
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What does Lon mean? What does Lon mean? L on as a name for boys is an Old German and Latin name, and the meaning of the name Lon is ready for battle; from Laurentum; strong, warlike. Lon is a variant form of Alonzo (Old German): Italian and Spanish form of Alphonse. Lon is also a form of Lawrence (Latin).
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- Etymology 2. From Middle English tor, torr-, from Old English torr, tor (“a high rock, lofty hill, tower”), possibly from Proto-Celtic, compare Old Welsh *tor (“hill”); ultimately from Latin turris (“high structure”), from Ancient Greek τύρρις (túrrhis), τύρσις (túrsis, “tower”), of non-Indo-European origin.
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aloof Origin: From a- + Middle English loof (=weather gage, also windward direction), probably from Dutch loef (=the weather side of a ship); originally a nautical order to keep the ship's head to the wind, thus to stay clear of a lee-shore or some other quarter, hence the figurative sense of at a distance, apart.
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- ; Ulster-Scots: Airlann [ˈɑːrlən]) is an island in the North Atlantic separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel, the Irish Sea, and St George's Channel. It is the second-largest island of the British Isles, trailing only Great Britain, the third-largest in Europe, and the twentieth-largest on Earth.
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blain Origin and Etymology of blain. Middle English, from Old English blegen; akin to Middle Low German bleine blain, Old English blāwan to blow. First Known Use: before 12th century.
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Bairn Bairn is Scots, Scottish English, and Northern English for a child. It originated in Old English as bearn, becoming chiefly Scottish circa 1700. A man with his boat and bairns in a calotype print from the 1840s, now in the National Galleries of Scotland.
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- anvil [ˈænvɪl] N → yunque m. anvil [ˈænvɪl] n → enclume f. anvil. n → Amboss m (also Anat) anvil [ˈænvɪl] n → incudine f. anvil (ˈӕnvil) noun. a block, usually of iron, on which metal objects (eg horse-shoes) are hammered into shape.
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Loins LOINS [ISBE] LOINS - loinz (chalats, Aramaic charats, mothen, kecel, yarekh; osphus): This variety of Hebrew synonyms seems to be used rather promiscuously for the loins, though there is no little difference in the secondary meanings of these words.
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- Etymology [edit]. From Middle English-cioun, Old French-tion, -cion, borrowed from the stem of Latin suffix-tiō. The Middle English-cioun became-tion in Modern English under the influence of the Middle French-tion and original Latin spellings.rom Middle English-cioun, Old French-tion, -cion, borrowed from the stem of Latin suffix-tiō. The Middle English-cioun became-tion in Modern English under the influence of the Middle French-tion and original Latin spellings.
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lading Old English hladan (past tense hlod, past participle gehladen) to load, heap (the general Germanic sense), also to draw water (a meaning peculiar to English), from Proto-Germanic *khlad-(cf. Old Norse hlaða, Old Saxon hladan, Middle Dutch and Dutch laden, Old Frisian hlada to load, Old High German hladen, German laden), from PIE *kla-to spread out flat (cf. Lithuanian kloti to spread, Old Church Slavonic klado to set, place).
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- From Middle English, from Old English efen, efn, emn ‎(“ even, equal, like, level, just, impartial, true ”), from Proto-Germanic *ebnaz ‎(“ flat, level, even; equal, straight ”), from Proto-Indo-European *(h₁)emno- ‎(“ equal, straight; flat, level, even ”).
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- before 1100; (noun) Middle English wimple, wimpel, Old English wimpel; cognate with Dutch, Low German wimpel, Old Norse vimpill; (v.) Middle English: to wrap in a wimple, derivative of the noun. Examples from the Web for wimpling.
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- saltern definition: saltworksOrigin of salternOld English sealtærn from sealt, salt + ærn, house: see ransack...
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- Middle English: perhaps from a Germanic base meaning 'shapeless piece'; compare with Danish lump 'lump', Norwegian and Swedish dialect lump 'block, log', and Dutch lomp 'rag'.More. lumber from Late Middle English: The earliest lumber in English meant ‘to move in a slow, heavy, awkward way’.xample sentences. 1  In contrast, having them sing is like using two lumps of sugar when one will do. 2  She poured herself a cup of tea, adding three lumps of sugar since she loved sweets, and sipped it noisily. 3  Feeding him a few lumps of sugar, she was finally able to coax him into allowing her to put on his saddle.