Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Middle English form of
pour , poor, pore.
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Examples
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And they haue diuers great stones carued, whereon they poure water, and throw thereupon some rice, wheate, barly, and some other things.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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But where mountaines do continually burne we vnderstand that there is no stopping of the passages, wherby they poure forth abundance of fire sometime flaming, & sometime smoaking gas it were a streaming flood.
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But where mountaines do continually burne we vnderstand that there is no stopping of the passages, wherby they poure forth abundance of fire sometime flaming, & sometime smoaking gas it were a streaming flood.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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So there are two ways to dissolve the Stone, and to poure upon it the clear water of Paradise.
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Vinegar from it, poure it on again as hath been taught, till the Vinegar remain strong as it was.
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[8] I cannot forbear to close this admirable character with the beautiful description of a "_poure Persone_," _riche of holy thought and werk_, given by the father of English poetry: --
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle
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The description of that of 1485 is written by another eye-witness, the Commandeur de Bourbon, to whom "ma semble bon et condecent a raison declairer premierement les causes qui out incite mon poure et petit entendement a faire cest petit oeuvre."
Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean E. Hamilton Currey
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Stone with distilled Vinegar, put it again into the Stone pot, poure fresh Vinegar upon it, set it into the Bath, and its head on, distil the
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Then augment your fire from one degree to another, till the Matter become yellower and yellower, to a perfect yellow; then increase it yet stronger, from one degree to another, till it be redder and redder, to a perfect redness; then poure your water upon the red powder with the red
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Glass, put it into a Glass melting-pot, and melt the powder gently, which should be done presently, for it melts as Wax; and being melted, poure it into the Mould of Box-wood as aforesaid, it will be a red stone clear and transparent as Crystal, red as a Ruby, then make projection therewith, and set the other half again to multiply.
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