Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A Middle English form of
iron .
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Examples
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Note 65: "Sy hielt iren orden an allen dingen als volkumenlich als wir ie dekain schwester sachent tün; sy was vil die erst in dem kor und hielt sich da mit grossem fliss an naigen, an ston, und das sy gar endlich sang alles das sy kund, wie sy doch nit wol sang."
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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Note 40: Des redvensters und aller ussrer menschen hat sy kain acht, und joch gen iren aignen brüder, den sy in unsrem orden hat, gen dem hielt sy sich usserlich.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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Note 3: "so si bettete an irem büchlin, so wart es ir ettwan guldin in iren henden, die büchstaben vnd alles samet, vnd werete das alle die wile so si bettete."
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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There is an abbeye of monks, wel bylded and wel closed with zates of iren, for drede of the wylde bestes.
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For in many places of the see ben grete roches of stones of the adamant, that of his propre nature drawethe iren to him.
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For the Ademand, of his kynde, drawethe the iren to him: and so wolde it drawe to him the schipp, because of the iren: that he scholde never departen fro it, ne never go thens.
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In that ile ben schippes with outen nayles of iren or bonds, for the roches of the
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And zif a schipp passed be tho marches, that hadde outher iren bondes or iren nayles, anon he scholde ben perisscht.
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And zif a man caste iren there in, it wole flete aboven.
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And men kutten the braunches with a scharp flynston or with a scherp bon,75 whan men will go to kutte hem: For who so kutte hem with iren, it wolde destroye his vertue and his nature.
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