† euripen.
Obsolete.figurative.1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vii. xiii. 366 Nor can he [a man] ever perish but in the Euripe of Ignorance. View more context for this quotation
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1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xliiii. xi. 1177 On the other side there is an Euripe or arm of the sea.
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy iii. iv. i. i. 707 A Sea full of shelues and rockes, Sands, gulfes, Euripes and contrary tides.
1623 W. Drummond Cypresse Groue in Flowres of Sion 52 What Euripe..doth change so oft as man?
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Euripe, signifies generally any strait, fret or Channel of the Sea, running between two shoars.
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