Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- See
guise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Guise.
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- noun Obsolete form of
guise .
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Examples
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Tansey gyse, a, 52/749, a dish of tansey of some kind.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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Lyst that whyle I labour this cursyd gyse to stynt
The Ship of Fools, Volume 1 Sebastian Brant 1489
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And every day, whan the covent of this abbeye hathe eten, the awmener let bere the releef to the gardyn, and he smytethe on the gardyn zate with a clyket of sylver, that he holdethe in his hond, and anon alle the bestes of the hille and of dyverse places of the gardyn, comen out, a 3000 or a 4000; and thei comen in gyse of pore men: and men zeven hem the releef, in faire vesselles of sylver, clene over gylt.
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And every day, whan the covent of this abbeye hathe eten, the awmener let bere the releef to the gardyn, and he smytethe on the gardyn zate with a clyket of sylver, that he holdethe in his hond, and anon alle the bestes of the hille and of dyverse places of the gardyn, comen out, a 3000 or a 4000; and thei comen in gyse of pore men: and men zeven hem the releef, in faire vesselles of sylver, clene over gylt.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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_the_ gyse & custu_m_, my child, shall [e] you excuse.
Caxton's Book of Curtesye Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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_th_e gyse of the_m_ _tha_t do most manerly; but be ware of onthryft [1] ruskyn gallavnte,
Caxton's Book of Curtesye Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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And every day, whan the covent of this abbeye hathe eten, the awmener let bere the releef to the gardyn, and he smytethe on the gardyn zate with a clyket of sylver, that he holdethe in his hond, and anon alle the bestes of the hille and of dyverse places of the gardyn, comen out, a 3000 or a 4000; and thei comen in gyse of pore men: and men zeven hem the releef, in faire vesselles of sylver, clene over gylt.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584
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2.15.5: And bitter findes the swete, vnder this gyse.
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