Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Enough.
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Examples
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To this she sayd it was not the wysest counsell to appoint her servantes to comptrolle her in her owne howse, and that her servantes knew her mynde therin well ynough, for of all men she might wurst endure any of them to move her in any suche mattiers, and for their punyshment my Lordes may use them as they think good. 87
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The never ynough wondered at and abhorred POWDER-TREASON . . . being not onely intended against me and my Posteritie, but even against the whole house of Parliament, plotted onely by Papists, and they only led thereto by a preposterous zeale for the advancement of their Religion. . .
Archive 2006-09-01 Flavia 2006
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The never ynough wondered at and abhorred POWDER-TREASON . . . being not onely intended against me and my Posteritie, but even against the whole house of Parliament, plotted onely by Papists, and they only led thereto by a preposterous zeale for the advancement of their Religion. . .
Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2006
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The stuffe that they haue readie spunne is about fiue thousand waight, and they say that they trust to haue by that time they come downe yarne ynough to make 20. cables.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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There be Carpenters here that will doe well ynough hauing one to instruct them.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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For the whole Fleete was large ynough to containe the burthen of 60 thousand tunnes.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And hereupon also our allowance of drinke, which was scant ynough before, was yet more scanted, because of the scarcitie thereof in the shippe.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Then they desired me that I would come thither the next yeere: I said to them, If I should come the next yeere, I think here would not be fish ynough to serue the
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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As touching the store and ordinance of warre, the sayd lordes affirmed that there was ynough for a yeere and more, whereof the contrary was found, for it failed a moneth or the citie was yeelded.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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But of stones there is store ynough, so that with them they commonly make their hedges to part ech mans ground from other: and the ground seemeth to be nothing else within but rockes and stones;
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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