† tyromancyn.
Obsolete.
Divination by means of cheese.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination by natural phenomena > divination by food and drink > [noun] > by cheese
tyromancy1652
1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 166 Tyromancy [printed Typomancy], [divining] by the coagulation of cheese.
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Tiromantie.
1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xxv. 208 To have the truth..more fully..disclosed..by..Tyromancy, whereof we make some Proof in a great Brehemont Cheese.
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n.1652- lay one's account with
- lay one's bones
- lay one's cards on the table
- lay one's care on god
- lay one's concerns on god
- lay one's course
- lay one's eyeball on
- lay one's eyes together
- lay one's finger on
- lay one's finger on the pulse
- lay one's fingers on the pulse
- lay one's hand to the plough
- lay one's head
- lay one's heels in one's neck
- lay one's leg over
- lay one's legs aliry
- lay one's life, head, to wed
- lay one's might
- lay one's portion with
- lay one's scene
- lay one's wait
- lay one'the finger on
- lay open
- lay or set aside
- lay our heads together