Definition of Coystrels

1. coystrel [n] - See also: coystrel

Lexicographical Neighbors of Coystrels

coyote
coyote brush
coyote bush
coyote ugly
coyoteite
coyotelike
coyotes
coyotillo
coyotillos
coypou
coypous
coypu
coypus
coys
coystrel
coystrels (current term)
coystril
coystrils
coywolf
coywolves
coz
coze
cozed
cozen
cozenage
cozenages
cozened
cozener
cozeners
cozening

Literary usage of Coystrels

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Elizabethan Critical Essays by George Gregory Smith (1904)
"... thee fathers of knowledge, haue doone, and too leaue too theese doltish coystrels theyre rude ..."

2. Elizabethan Criticism of Poetry by Guy Andrew Thompson (1914)
"The readiest way to overcome such "doltish coystrels" and discredit their work, he thinks, "is for the learned to apply themselves wholly to the true making ..."

3. Old English Plays: Being a Selection from the Early Dramatic Writers by Charles Wentworth Dilke (1814)
"Nothing but that such double coystrels* as you be are counterfeit. Ris. Are you so dapper, we'll send you for a halfpenny loaf. Half. ..."

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