Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Madder dried and ground into powder, without removing its outer covering. McElrath, Com. Dict.

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Examples

  • _ B. conjectures: cwæð hīe on mergenne mēces ecgum gētan wolde, sumon galgtreowu āhēawan on holte ond hīe āhōan on þā fuglum tō gamene.

    Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879

  • _ B. conjectures: cwäð hîe on mergenne mêces ecgum gêtan wolde, sumon galgtreowu âheáwan on holte ond hîe âhôan on þâ fuglum tô gamene.

    Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879

  • It probably came about as a dialect survival from Middle English gamene-n.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 4 1984

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