Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The top of the head; the head or noll.
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- noun obsolete The top of the head; the
head ornoll .
Etymologies
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See noll.
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Examples
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++In ðe se senden selcuðes manie. ðe mereman is a meiden ilike. on brest ⁊ on bodi. oc al ðus ge is bunden. fro ðe noule niðerward. ne is ge no man like. oc fis to fuliwis mid finnes waxen.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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Catholiques, nuo tn e noule or the lake, and into the dungeon: and Iere - withtreafon mie fate there manie daies. f But Sedecias the king fending 16 andfedition. tooke him: and demanded of him in his houfe fecretly, and
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but when they were in Denmark they found that many Danes nevertheless pronounced the word as it is written: nogle noule.
Archive 2009-05-01 David McDuff 2009
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