Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An old form of
earthen .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete, obsolete Same as.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Obsolete form of
earthen .
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Examples
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I am sorry for it, but Lord Carm (arthen) (200) has in all this made but a miserable figure.
George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life Helen [Editor] Clergue
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The sloop _Mary_ managed to reach Quebec in 1701 with a miscellaneous cargo, containing, among many other items, '166 cheses, 20+81+101 Rols of tobacko, {65} 2 hogheds of botls marckt SR, 70 bunches of arthen waire pots, 8 barels of beaire, 19 caskes of schotte.'
All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways William Charles Henry Wood 1905
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I am sorry for it, but Lord Carm (arthen) (200) has in all this made but a miserable figure.
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The ground is jest kivered, in places with Injun arrers, and pipes and stone hatchets, and I've dug up some of the durndest queer-shaped arthen pots you ever sot eyes on.
A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett William Henry Venable 1878
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I do not perceive that Lord Carm (arthen) has got any repu (ta) tion from his violence against Lord George. (
George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life Helen [Editor] Clergue
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I do not perceive that Lord Carm (arthen) has got any repu (ta) tion from his violence against Lord George. (
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