Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Madder dried and ground into powder, without removing its outer covering. McElrath, Com. Dict.
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Examples
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_ B. conjectures: cwæð hīe on mergenne mēces ecgum gētan wolde, sumon galgtreowu āhēawan on holte ond hīe āhōan on þā fuglum tō gamene.
Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879
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_ B. conjectures: cwäð hîe on mergenne mêces ecgum gêtan wolde, sumon galgtreowu âheáwan on holte ond hîe âhôan on þâ fuglum tô gamene.
Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879
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It probably came about as a dialect survival from Middle English gamene-n.
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