isl.
abbreviation
island.
isl.
American
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Isl.
abbreviation
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island.
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isle.
Isl.
British
abbreviation
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Island
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Isle
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Lonely women dance in the mirror, she texted Robbie. the mirror = the ocean -> coney isl. we on the way. c u there?
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
Sir F. Madden says—Garnett conjectured weirs or dams, from Isl. ver.
From The Lay of Havelok the Dane by Unknown
V. Jam. who derives it from Su.-G. wild, Isl. villr.
From The Lay of Havelok the Dane by Unknown
From the Fr. bouter, Teut. buitten, or Belg. botten, to drive or propel forward, or, as others suggest, from the Br. pwtiaw, which has the same meaning, or Isl. potta.
From The Lay of Havelok the Dane by Unknown
Other Isl. writers assert that their ancestors did not worship the pigmies as they did the genii or spirits, also supposed to reside in the rocks.”
From Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales by Elias Owen
The verb in the Sax. is hlystan, but in Su.-G. lyda, and Isl. hlyda, which approaches nearer to the form in the poem.
From The Lay of Havelok the Dane by Unknown
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