2. Verb. (archaic) (third-person singular of English) ¹
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Definition of Englishes
1. english [v] - See also: english
Lexicographical Neighbors of Englishes
Literary usage of Englishes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Kaffir-English Dictionary by Albert Kropf (1899)
"... in the englishes«. It is a semivowel, equivalent to the simple sound i before
another vowel : ia— ya, te=ye, etc. Y prefixed to the verb, root forms the ..."
2. Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country (1882)
"There were the englishes of the boyhood, and the manhood, of the Caxtons who had
preceded him—his father, his grandfather; there were the englishes of the ..."
3. The New English by T[homas] L[aurence] Kington Oliphant (1886)
"The verb stryke englishes je lache ; it is here, p. 377, applied to letting down
a crane ; our strike sail had been used centuries earlier; stryke on ground ..."
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