† uncornn.
Evil grain; ‘wild oats’.
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > dissolute conduct > [noun] > in youth
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > profligacy, dissoluteness, or debauchery > [noun] > in youth
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1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid iv. Prol. 13 Quhar schame is lost, thair..Ripis ȝour perellus frutis and oncorn.
1710 T. Ruddiman in G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneis (new ed.) Gloss. (at cited word) In some places of Scotland they say, that one hath sown his uncorn.
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n.1513- to make a pig's ear of
- to make a pig's ear out of
- to make a pish at
- to make a pish of
- to make a pitch
- to make a place too hot for
- to make a play
- to make a play for
- to make a point
- to make a point of
- to make a point to
- to make a pool
- to make a poor fist
- to make a poor mouth
- to make a porridge
- to make a porridge of
- to make a pot at
- to make a pounce
- to make a practice of
- to make a present
- to make a present of
- to make a production of
- to make a production out of
- to make a puddle
- to make a punk of