† venefyn.
Obsolete. rare.
= venefice n.
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venefy1616
1616 J. Lane Contin. Squire's Tale viii. 130 (note) Leyfurcke..vsd all violence and art, which lay in vile Videreaes venefies, to crosse and disappoint the destanies.
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n.1616- to send one to birching lane
- to send one to parliament
- to send one's best
- to send one's compliments, love, respects
- to send one's love
- to send or put to prentice
- to send or set a wool-gathering
- to send or set a woolgathering
- to send or set wool-gathering
- to send or set woolgathering
- to send out
- to send over
- to send owls to athens
- to send packing
- to send prisoners to the plantations
- to send round
- to send the axe after the helve
- to send the mitten
- to send to coventry
- to send to dorse
- to send to grass
- to send to graze
- to send to hell across lots
- to send to hell in a handbasket
- to send to parliament