meed
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of meed
before 900; Middle English mede, Old English mēd; cognate with German Miete hire; akin to Old English meord, Gothic mizdō, Greek misthós reward
Example Sentences
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Nancy made a flat cake of white flour with a sprinkling of sugar on top, and Jenny pulled tender radishes and onions from her garden to give the taste of spring to their meed.
From Literature
Their only meed--some execrating word To blight the hour when first their voice was heard.'
From Project Gutenberg
Each float in passing received its meed of praise and applause.
From Project Gutenberg
Jacob does not yet seem to have taken up the difference between inheriting a thing as God’s gift, and inheriting it as the meed of his own prowess.
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No one that ever knew or sympathised with Oregon history has failed to give his meed of praise to both Whitman and McLoughlin.
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