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▪ I. rew, n.1 Obs. exc. dial.
Forms: 1 rǽw, réw, réaw, 3 reawe, 4–7 rewe, 5–7, 9 rew, 9 rue.
[OE. rǽw, etc. (see 2 b), var. of ráw row n.]
†1. In adverbial phrases:
a. by rew, in order, successively. Also in rew. Obs.
a1225Ancr. R. 336 Go so adunewardes bi reawe & bi reawe, uor tu kume to þe laste. 13..R. Glouc. (Rolls) 6984 Þe bissopes ech on Bi rewe asoileden þe king of his gret trespas. c1386Chaucer Wife's T. Preamble 506 That feele I on my ribbes al by rewe. 1388Wyclif Acts xviii. 23 He wente forth, walkinge bi rewe thorou the cuntrei of Galathie. c1449Pecock Repr. ii. xiv. 233 Whiche ij. textis, if thei ben considered as thei liggen to gidere in rewe, it schal be seen [etc.]. 1470–85Malory Arthur ii. i. 77 Moost of..the barons..assayed alle by rewe, but ther myght non spede. 1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. 228 Before that thou shalt haue rekened vp by rewe one after other..the xxiiii. lettres. 1591Spenser Tears of Muses 233 So rested shee; and then the next in rew Began her grievous plaint.
†b. on or in a rew, in a row or line. Obs.
Cf. arew arow adv. and OE. on ᵹerǽwe.
c1290St. Brendan 278 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 227 He ladde him and is monekus in-to a noble halle, And setten heom a-doun alle on a rewe. c1384Chaucer H. Fame 1692 Ther come the ferthe companye.., And gunne stonde in a rewe. c1386― Knt.'s T. 2008 To hakke and hewe The okes olde, and leye hem on a rewe. 1503Hawes Examp. Virt. xiii. 254 All the ladyes..Stode on a rewe besyde the closette. 1590Spenser F.Q. iii. vi. 17 She found the Goddesse with her crew..Sitting beside a fountaine in a rew. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. ii. 99 Rugged rocks set orderly, as it were in a rew. 1615Chapman Odyss. xxi. 173 On a rew [he] Set them, of one height, by a line he drew.
†2. A row or line of persons or things; a rank or series. Obs.
c1290St. Wulstan 224 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 77 Al along þe rewe þoruȝ þe queor he gan i-wiende. 1390Gower Conf. III. 308 Than sen thei stonde on every side,..Of Penonceals a riche rewe. c1430Two Cookery bks. 53 Plante..a rew of on, & rew of a-noþer. c1500World & Child 532, I take recorde of this rewe My thedome is nere past. 1578Lyte Dodoens 60 The floures..growing thicke togither in rewes by one side of the stem. 1601[Bp. W. Barlow] Defence 218 Registred in his rew of erroneous Doctors. a1623Ainsworth Annot. Ps. lxviii. 14 Betweene the two bankes or rewes, to wit, of stones made to hang pots and kettles on. 1664Spelman's Gloss. s.v. Reia, A rew of muck or dung.
b. dial. A hedgerow.
OE. examples (heᵹe-, wiþiᵹrǽw) occur in Kemble Cod. Dipl. II. 54, III. 48, V. 275, etc.
1853Cooper Sussex Gloss. (ed. 2), Rue, a row; a hedgerow. 1889Nevill Old Cottages 115 (E.D.D.), The paving of this road is still very perfect in some of the wooded ‘rews’ at Coxland.
c. dial. (See quot.)
1886Elworthy W. Som. Gloss., Rue, the row or ridge in which grass falls when cut with a scythe.
†3. A streak, stripe. Obs. rare.
c1290Beket 2177 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 169 A smal rewe þer was of blode, þat ouer his nose drouȝ. c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 304 [Water-leeches] þat han reed wombis & litil reed rewis in þe rigge medlid wiþ grene. 1611Cotgr., Se rayer, to be full of rayes, rewes, or streakes. 1684[see rewey a.].
†4. A line in a book. Obs. rare.
1399Langl. Rich. Redeles Prol. 54 Beholde þe book onys, And redeth on him redely rewis an hundrid.
▪ II. † rew, n.2 Sc. Obs.
Also 6 reu.
[a. F. rue.]
A street; also, a village.
1375Barbour Bruce xv. 71 Than wes the slauchter so felloune, That all the rewys ran of blude. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints ii. (Paulus) 575 Of þis towne pase til a rew, Quhare þat Iuda dwellis now. c1425Wyntoun Cron. v. ii. 359 Born of þe lande of Galile, In til þe rew of Bethsayda. c1475Rauf Coilȝear 351 Quhen thay Princis appeirit into Paris, Ilk Rew Ryallie with riches thame arrayis. 1533Bellenden Livy i. xviii. (S.T.S.) I. 106 The place quhare þe deid was done Is callit ȝit þe vnhappy and cursit rew. 1549Compl. Scot. ix. 76 Ald ande ȝong ar slane on the reuis but mercy. 1590in J. B. Pratt Buchan (1858) 101 The handbell passing throu the haill rewis.
▪ III. † rew, n.3 Obs. rare—1.
[a. ON. ró: see roove n.]
A form of burr for a rivet.
c1440York Myst. viii. 109 It sall be cleyngked..With nayles þat are both noble and newe... Take here a revette, and þere a rewe.
▪ IV. † rew, a.
? obs. variant of raw a. 6.
c1440Alph. Tales 211 Cristen men..fand þe child in þe ovyn, syttand opon þe hate colis, right as [he] had syttyn opon fayr flowris; and hym aylid no rew sore.
▪ V. † rew, v. Obs.
[Related to rew n.1: cf. OE. ᵹerǽwed striped, set in rows.]
trans. To mark with lines or stripes. Hence † rewing vbl. n.
1558in Feuillerat Revels Q. Eliz. (1908) 21, vi Turkye gounes of Crymesen rewed with golde threed. Ibid. 82, vi peces of laune rewed with counterfete gowlde. 1611Cotgr., Poiler,..to rew; to dy or colour vneuenly. Ibid., Rayement,..a rewing. Rayer,..to rew, streake, or skore all ouer.
▪ VI. rew
obs. form of rue n. and v.
▪ VII. rew
to sift: see ree v. |