documents covering a broad range of topics from the Middle Ages forward-from. exclamation of impatience or disgust (1843). Translated and English-language radio and television broadcasts, newspapers. In reference to a type of swimming kick, from 1902 (the image itself is from 1880s). Sense in wrestling, "a grip with the legs or ankles," is by 1904. In Scotland, shears (the native word) answers for all sizes, according to OED but in England generally that word is used only for those too large to be worked by one hand. (1100-1500) Includes an electronic version of the Middle English Dictionary a HyperBibliography of Middle English, which includes all the materials which are cited in the Middle English Dictionary and the Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse, a searchable corpus of almost 300 Middle English texts. The Middle English Compendium offers access to and interconnectivity between three major Middle English electronic resources: an electronic version of the Middle English Dictionary, a HyperBibliography of Middle English prose and verse, based on the MED bibliographies, and a Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse, as well as links to an. 1400) when indication of just one is required, but a singular form without the -s occasionally was used ( cysowre, mid-15c., but Middle English Compendium reports that is "only in glossaries"). An 'Entire entry' search in the Dictionary for king of arms will find over 45,000 entries that contain at least one of the three words king, of, or arms. The forms with sc- are from 16c., by influence of Medieval Latin scissor "tailor," in classical Latin "carver, cutter," from past-participle stem of unrelated scindere "to split." General search information Searches in all three sections (Dictionary, Bibliography, and Quotations) treat words separately, as keywords. The spelling was highly uncertain before 20c. "pair of shears of medium or small size," late 14c., sisoures, also cisours, sesours, cisurs, etc., from Old French cisoires (plural) "shears," from Vulgar Latin *cisoria (plural) "cutting instrument," from *cisus (in compounds such as Latin excisus, past participle of excidere "to cut out"), ultimately from Latin caedere "to cut" (from PIE root *kae-id- "to strike"). in electronic form), the Middle English Dictionary, a Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse, and related resources.
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