senr.adj.
= senior adj. 1a.
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senior?a1475
sen.1676
senr.1763
primus1765
ma1791
majorc1823
maximus1848
1763 J. Bell Trav. from St. Petersburg p. v/1 Peter Bell, senr. Esq.
1885 T. Hardy Let. 18 Mar. (1978) I. 131 The arrangement I made with Mr Macmillan Senr & Mr Craik.
1932 E. Blunden Face of Eng. 73 John Bowers, senr., came through the clap-gate.
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adj.1763- he can muster
- he could not see it
- he could start a fight in an empty room
- he couldn't run a menage
- he didn't do anything else
- he etc can give cards and spades
- he etc could not see it
- he etc didn't do anything else
- he etc will go far
- he etc wouldn't know a —— if it bit him
- he etc wouldn't know a —— if it bit him etc
- he etc wouldn't know a —— if it bit him her
- he etc wouldn't know a —— if it etc him
- he etc wouldn't know a —— if it etc him etc
- he etc wouldn't know a —— if it etc him her
- he etc wouldn't know a —— if it kicked him
- he etc wouldn't know a —— if it kicked him etc
- he etc wouldn't know a —— if it kicked him her
- he etc wouldn't say boo to a goose
- he has seen his last gum tree
- he is lifeless that is faultless
- he laughs best who laughs last
- he laughs longest who laughs last
- he loves me, he loves me not
- he may bear a bull that hath borne a calf