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- adjective obsolete Fourth.
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- adjective obsolete
fourth
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Examples
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If þou wilt have blak do þerto blode ysode and fryed. and set on the fyre in as many vessels as þou hast colours þerto and seeþ it wel and lay þise colours in a cloth first oon. and sithen anoþer upon him. and sithen the þridde and the ferthe. and presse it harde til it be all out clene.
The Forme of Cury A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390 Samuel Pegge 1750
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_the ferthe parte is of purgatorye yere soules ben clensed of her folye.
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811
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British and Roman roads, the Fosse-way, commenced there -- "The ferthe of thisse is most of alle that tilleth from Toteneis ...
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