† unspenv.
Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To release.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > liberation > set free [verb (transitive)] > free from restraint > the lips, tongue, or heart
unspen?c1225
loosec1390
unseala1586
loosen1645
unslip1802
unloosen1845
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 124 Sein Iohan þebaptiste..inhis borne time vn spennede [a1250 Nero upspende] his fader tunge into prophecie.
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v.?c1225- wet salted
- wet scab
- wet shave
- wet shaver
- wet shaving
- wet sheet
- wet situated
- wet smack
- wet spavin
- wet spell
- wet spinning
- wet spun
- wet steam
- wet strength
- wet the baby's head
- wet the other eye
- wet the small end of one's moggan
- wet the t'other eye
- wet through
- wet through, to the skin
- wet time
- wet to the skin
- wet trade
- wet way
- wet whistle, weasand, mouth, beak, beard