liéadj.2
Connected with, intimately acquainted with, attached to (a person or group of persons).
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the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [adjective] > intimate or familiar > closely associated or acquainted
fastOE
specialc1390
near1523
inward1535
close1577
particular1588
lié1855
solid1882
1855 E. Twisleton Let. 1 May (1928) xiv. 264 Milnes..has always been lié with Lord Palmerston.
1897 E. Dowson Let. c14 Nov. (1967) 397 I gather he is rather lié with Whibley whom I greatly dislike & do not want to meet.
1906 W. De Morgan Joseph Vance xi. 86 In case it should strike you that I have said..very little about Nolly, I hereby declare that this is not because I did not love him, for we soon became very liés.
1947 E. Jenkins Young Enthusiasts 50 Alex and I..each had a young man... Alex was liée with a naval officer.
1955 A. L. Rowse Expansion of Elizabethan Eng. i. 22 Esmé Stuart was a danger: he was a Catholic and lié with the Guises.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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adj.21855- throw money about
- throw money at
- throw mud
- throw of the dice
- throw off
- throw off his or her bias
- throw off the scent
- throw off the yoke
- throw on
- throw one's cassock to the nettles
- throw one's energy into
- throw one's etc
- throw one's etc into
- throw one's face
- throw one's fastball
- throw one's feet
- throw one's frock to the nettles
- throw one's hat in the ring
- throw one's hat into the ring
- throw one's heart into
- throw one's leg over
- throw one's money about
- throw one's mouth
- throw one's rattle out of the cot
- throw one's rattle out of the pram