† linnowv.
Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To make supple (in quot. 1572 absol.).
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > pliableness > make pliable [verb (transitive)]
linnow1572
supple1609
unstiffen1611
1572 J. Jones Bathes of Bathes Ayde ii. f. 19v Of the sweete taste, it shall have the power, that it may linnow, smooth, and fynely lewse.
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v.1572- to be opinated
- to be or become bail
- to be or come in contact
- to be or come in into contact
- to be or get floored
- to be or go on the cross
- to be or have on hire
- to be or lie on one's back
- to be or live in cotton-wool
- to be or live in cottonwool
- to be or look shy on or at
- to be or look slippy
- to be or put in the wrong
- to be or to fall at a square
- to be or to fall at square
- to be or to have in laudation
- to be out
- to be out after a person's blood
- to be out after blood
- to be out at elbow(s
- to be out for
- to be out for a person's blood
- to be out for blood
- to be out in one's reckoning
- to be out like a light