† villen.1
Anatomy. Obsolete.
= villus n. 2. (Only in plural.)
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the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > intestines > [noun] > villi of intestines
villec1400
villus1728
villosity1828
c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 30 Þe corde whanne he entriþ into þe brawn is departid into many smale þredis, & þei ben clepid villes [v.r. vylles]—þat is to seie wrappingis. & þese villes ben of iij. manner.
?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens ii. sig. Ij v Of what villes is the stomacke composed?
1562 W. Bullein Dial. Sorenes f. 26, in Bulwarke of Defence Iskyng [= yexing] procedyng of driyng of the villes of the stomacke.
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† villen.2
Obsolete.
Chervil. Cf. fille n.1
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > culinary herbs > chervil
chervila750
fillec1000
villea1300
cerfoil14..
a1300 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 557/1 Cerfolium, i. cerfoil, i. villen.
a1400 J. Mirfield Sinonoma Bartholomei (1882) 43 Ville, cerefolium.
a1400 J. Mirfield Sinonoma Bartholomei (1882) 15 Cerfolium, i. villes.
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villen.3
/vɪl//vʌɪl/ slang (now U.S.).
A town or village.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town, village, or collection of dwellings > [noun]
thorpc725
homeeOE
byc950
castlec1000
wickc1000
streeta1325
placec1390
plecka1576
bourgade1601
township1602
townreda1613
ville1837
vicus1842
ham1864
stad1896
1837 L. C. Boynton Jrnl. 11 Sept. in Proc. Amer. Antiquarian Soc. (1933) XLIII. 336 Amherst [Mass.] is a very pleasant little ville, but still and inactive.
1859 J. C. Hotten Dict. Slang 114 Ville, or vile, a town or village,—pronounced phial, or vial. French.
1890 F. W. Carew No. 747 xxxv. 416 We made a long round back to vile.
1939 J. Joyce Finnegans Wake 130 The brick of the viled ville of Barnehulme.
1977 M. Herr Dispatches 10 Once we fanned over a little ville that had just been airstruck.
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Villen.4
/vɪl/ slang.
the Ville, Pentonville Prison in London.
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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] > specific prisons
King's Bench1427
marshalsea1436
tunc1503
chateleta1513
clinkc1530
the Fleet1530
Bocardo1535
bastille1561
Poultry Compter1644
Whit1673
the Moor1869
the Ville1903
the Scrubs1923
H-block1976
Mandela University1986
1903 ‘No. 77’ Mark of Broad Arrow ii. 35 Before the notorious bank forgers had been in ‘The Ville’ a single hour they were located in different wings of the prison, thus rendering personal contact with each other impossible.
1936 ‘J. Curtis’ Gilt Kid ii. 23 He gets nicked for suspect and being on the flypaper, he gets a stretch in the Ville.
1962 John o' London's 25 Jan. 82/3 Pentonville Prison is the ville.
1962 D. Warner Death of Bogey iv. iii. 146 A stretch in the Ville or on the Moor.
1967 C. Drummond Death at Furlong Post xii. 152 I don't want to see your great face up against me in the 'ville for twenty years.
1972 L. Henderson Cage until Tame vi. 51 Yeah, that's right, he was in the 'Ville.
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