† manyheadn.
Obsolete.
Multiplicity.
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the world > relative properties > number > plurality > great number, numerousness > [noun] > a large number or multitude
sandc825
thousandc1000
un-i-rimeOE
legiona1325
fernc1325
multitudec1350
hundred1362
abundancec1384
quantityc1390
sight1390
felec1394
manyheada1400
lastc1405
sortc1475
infinityc1480
multiplie1488
numbers1488
power1489
many1525
flock1535
heapa1547
multitudine1547
sort1548
myriads1555
myriads1559
infinite1563
tot-quot1565
dickera1586
multiplea1595
troop1596
multitudes1598
myriad1611
sea-sands1656
plurality1657
a vast many1695
dozen1734
a good few1756
nation1762
vast1793
a wheen (of)1814
swad1828
lot1833
tribe1833
slew1839
such a many1841
right smart1842
a million and one1856
horde1860
a good several1865
sheaf1865
a (bad, good, etc.) sortc1869
immense1872
dunnamuch1875
telephone number1880
umpty1905
dunnamany1906
skit1913
umpteen1919
zillion1922
gang1928
scrillion1935
jillion1942
900 number1977
gazillion1978
fuckload1984
a1400 Psalter (Vesp.) xxx. 23 in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 161 Hou mikel mainhede [read manihede] ofe þi swetnes, Lauerd, þat þou hid to be dredand es!
a1400 Psalter (Vesp.) cl. 2 in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 273 (MED) Loues him after manihede [L. secundum multitudinem] of his mikelnesse.
c1440 (?c1350) in G. G. Perry Relig. Pieces in Prose & Verse (1914) 47 (MED) For-þi þat anehede es gude, and manyhede alswa; þare-fore it behouede nede þat anehede and manyhede bathe ware in Godd.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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