Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A dialectal form (like
cauld ) of cold.
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Examples
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Istud botta cooperiunt panno serico precioso; et est concauum interius: et super capitellum in medio vel super quadraturam illam ponunt virgulam de calamis pennarum vel cannis gracilibus longitudinis scilicet vnius cubiti et plus: et illam sibi virgulam ornant superius de pennis pauonis, et per longum in circuitu pennulis caud� malardi, et etiam lapidibus pr鎐iosis.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Nec enim vultures habet Islandia, sed genus aquilarum secundum, quod ab albicante caud� Plinius notauit &
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Sunt etiam ibi, cuniculi habentes longam caudam sicut cari; et in summitate caud� habent pilos nigros et albos.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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"No, no, Jeremiah, don't fret yourself," Gillen reassured him, sending a look-at-the-trouble-you-caud glance Stowe's way.
A different flesh Turtledove, Harry 1988
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When they assembled to eat their cold provisions, the farmer cried out, 'Hegh lads, but there's cauld (or caud) harbour here.'
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"Ye dinna mean that she can be more caud than this?"
Steve Young George Manville Fenn 1870
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"She'll chust spoil if she gets caud," muttered Watty.
Steve Young George Manville Fenn 1870
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The oldest man in the Ottawa nation, a chief called Nish-caud-jin-in-a, or the Man of Wrath, died this day at L'Arbre Croche, Michigan.
Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Schoolcraft, H R 1851
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a pit mair caud, and she'll have to pe perried out here in the ice and snaw.
Steve Young George Manville Fenn 1870
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“I didna come oot here in the caud at the risk o’ ma ane demise to be insultit.”
Death of a Fool Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1956
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