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  • Notice too that English no longer has gendered nouns and adjectives, although in the many nouns ending with e, such as drope and coppe, medieval versions of “drop,” and “cup,” there are still graphic vestiges of more-inflected Old English.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Notice too that English no longer has gendered nouns and adjectives, although in the many nouns ending with e, such as drope and coppe, medieval versions of “drop,” and “cup,” there are still graphic vestiges of more-inflected Old English.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • You can't drope comment like that, it's cruel ... now I am overwhelmed with desire to read BbF!

    Hellhounds, Branded & More Nalini Singh 2009

  • I'm going to talk to him about Scott McClellan, Karl Rove, impeachment, FISA and invite you to drope me an email with suggestions for questions

    OpEdNews - Diary: Rob Kall Radio Show; Tonight 9-10 PM Eastern Time, Featuring John Dean 2008

  • I'm going to talk to him about Scott McClellan, Karl Rove, impeachment, FISA and invite you to drope me an email with suggestions for questions

    Printing: Rob Kall Radio Show; Tonight 9-10 PM Eastern Time, Featuring John Dean 2008

  • By the drope in his groin, Ali Slupa, thinks the cappon, plumbing his liners, we were heretofore. —

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • Aftre take also a drope of bawme, and put it in to a dissche or in a cuppe with mylk of a goat; and zif it be naturelle bawme, anon it wole take and beclippe the mylk.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • For in his contree, is the see that men clepen the Gravely See, that is alle gravelle and sond, with outen ony drope of watre: and it ebbethe and flowethe in grete wawes, as other sees don: and it is never stille ne in pes, in no maner cesoun.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • And a 3 iourneys long fro that see, ben gret mountaynes; out of the whiche gothe out a gret flood, that comethe out of paradys: and it is fulle of precious stones, with outen ony drope of water: and it rennethe thorghe the desert, on that o syde; so that it makethe the see gravely: and it berethe in to that see, and there it endethe.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Aftre take also a drope of bawme, and put it in to a dissche or in a cuppe with mylk of a goat; and zif it be naturelle bawme, anon it wole take and beclippe the mylk.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

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  • A crow. --Yorkshire provincial dialect.

    May 5, 2011