† emuscationn.
Obsolete.
The action of cleansing (the trunk of a tree) from moss. Also figurative.In modern dictionaries.
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emuscation1664
1664 J. Evelyn Sylva (1679) Advt. Let them read for emuscation, cleansing it of the moss.
1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. ix. 385 They cure it..by emuscation.
1721–1800 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict.
1847 in J. Craig New Universal Dict.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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n.1664- to hang on a person's lips
- to hang on by one's fingernails
- to hang on by one's fingertips
- to hang on by the eyelids
- to hang on in the hedge
- to hang on lips
- to hang on one's mind
- to hang on or in a string
- to hang on someone's rear
- to hang on the hedge
- to hang on the trip
- to hang on to
- to hang on to something by one's fingernails
- to hang on to something by one's fingertips
- to hang on, upon, of a person's sleeve
- to hang on, upon, of sleeve
- to hang one on
- to hang one's ears
- to hang one's hat
- to hang one's hat on
- to hang out
- to hang out bushes
- to hang out false colours
- to have come a long way
- to have come down in the last shower