Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Scots Physical strength or power.
- noun Archaic A plentiful harvest; abundance.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Plenty; abundance.
- noun Strength; ability.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Archaic Rich harvest; plenty; abundance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic an
abundance , a rich supply of. - noun
strength ,power
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I recorded the date of my marriage and the conception of my wife and the birth of my daughter; and from her horoscope I find that her name is conjoined with that of her cousin; 401 and there are damsels in foison for our lord the Sultan.’
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And it is almost needless to say that in both _subjects_ for novel treatment "foison," as both French and
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889
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The others came back in the eventide, bearing with them foison of blue hare-bells, and telling joyously how they had found them anigh the coppice edge in such a place: and thereafter they were merry, and sang and talked the evening away, and showed
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Paddington came in, too, drawling and lisping and twiddling his hair; so did Champignac, and his chef — everybody with foison of compliments and pretty speeches — plaguing poor me, who longed to be rid of them, and was thinking every moment of the time of mon pauvre prisonnier.
Vanity Fair 2006
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Swells to the warm west-wind, in gales of foison alighting;
Poems and Fragments 2006
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Swells to the warm west-wind, in gales of foison alighting;
Poems and Fragments 2006
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Juno descends in a chariot from the roof over the theatre to converse with Iris and Ceres; they bring with them the bounty and foison of a generous earth to help celebrate.
Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002
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And as they had dreamed, so it came to passe: for being awakened out of their sleepe, in came his men with so great foison of fish, that the same might haue sufficed a great armie of men, for the vittelling of them at that season.
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (6 of 8) The Sixt Booke of the Historie of England Raphael Holinshed
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Latinus reigns you shall not [262-294] lack foison of rich land nor
The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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There is a region Greeks name Hesperia, an ancient land, mighty in arms and foison of the clod; Oenotrian men dwell therein; now rumour is that
The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
brtom commented on the word foison
"Thither the extremely large wains bring foison of the fields ..."
Joyce, Ulysses, 12
January 13, 2007
sionnach commented on the word foison
A very bountiful harvest.
January 31, 2008