† Cosmotecturen.
Obsolete. rare.
World-envelope.
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1624 Bp. F. White Replie to Iesuit Fishers Answere 448 The flies wing..may be thinned, extended, and inlarged, to make a case..to put the whole world into..This fictious Cosmotecture and case.
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n.1624- to give a field
- to give a fig, or fig's end for
- to give a fish leave
- to give a fish the butt
- to give a foot
- to give a for instance
- to give a foul berth
- to give a foul berth to
- to give a free hand
- to give a free rein
- to give a free rein to
- to give a gawf
- to give a gift
- to give a give or gift
- to give a give or gift that
- to give a good account of
- to give a good account of often oneself
- to give a good account of something
- to give a good hand
- to give a good name
- to give a good seeing to
- to give a good stroke
- to give a good, clear, or usually since 1800 wide berth to
- to give a good, clear, or wide berth to
- to give a gudgeon