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They may excite or divert us for a time, but when we look back, the only things we cher - ish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord.

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  1. To go out; issue. The shippes were a-rived, and the knyghtes isseden owte, and alle the other peple. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), i. 42.
  2. Issue; liberty and opportunity of going out.
  3. ish and entry. In Scots law, the clause “with free ish and entry,” in a charter, imports a right to all ways and passages, in so far as they may be necessary to kirk and market, through the adjacent grounds of the grantor, who is by the clause laid under that burden.

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  • They may excite or divert us for a time, but when we look back, the only things we cher - ish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord. —  The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather
  • The bars were yellow - ish, like the rest of this place, and somewhat slick. —  Split Infinity
  • I got two single-seat fighters, a Stuka, and two bombers'they were Dornier 17's and they'd have a crew of four each. —  Noble House
  • Oh, ish, her friend Wendy would squeal when something offended her. —  Every Secret Thing
  • The man looked about sixty-ish, much of it probably spent wearing that same expression. —  Boiling a Frog
 

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  1. from Middle English ischen, isshen, issen, icen, from Old French issir, eissir, from Latin exire, go out: see exit and issue.
  2. from ish, v. Cf. issue, n.
 

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