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vare

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[vair] / vɛər /

noun

  • vares
    plural
  1. Dialect. weasel.


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The section was tacked on to the bill by members of the House and Senate whose districts vare graced with such federal activities, e.g.,

From Time Magazine Archive

For ich ham for þe i veiþed; þat ich wene beo dead. þare ware ich euere vare; nam ich neuere boute care.

From Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts by Joseph Hall

"You spik Tcherman vare goot," was the reply.

From The Stowaway Girl by Louis Tracy

He see dot dey vare der shoes oud in dot vay und he choins dot shurch to hold dot trade, und prospers; so I choined der Methodists."—"What did you gain by that?"—"

From Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1, January 1886 by Various

Doune goith the folk of galotis al haill; For to withſtond thai war of no poware, 3248 And yhit of folk x thouſand mo thei vare.

From Lancelot of the Laik A Scottish Metrical Romance by Walter W. (Walter William) Skeat

On the floor will be some 60 samples of 17 truckmakers' vares, as well as displays of perhaps 80 accessory and engine manufacturers.

From Time Magazine Archive

They doo pay him in peeces of silke, of fourteene vares long the peece, two hundred fiue thousand and fiue hundred ninetie peeces.

From The History of the Great and Mighty Kingdom of China and the Situation Thereof, Volume I (of 2) by Juan Gonzalez de Mendoza

Of mantles made of cotton of fourty vares, sixe hundred seuenty eight thousand, eight hundred and seuentie.

From The History of the Great and Mighty Kingdom of China and the Situation Thereof, Volume I (of 2) by Juan Gonzalez de Mendoza

He looket at de fans und dings,     Denn said, "To tell de trut', Dere's painted vares more dear ash dis     Oop shdairs in La Redoute."

From The Breitmann Ballads by Charles Godfrey Leland

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