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Definition of Mackled
1. mackle [v] - See also: mackle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mackled
Literary usage of Mackled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Glossary of Northamptonshire Words and Phrases by Anne Elizabeth Baker (1854)
"mackled. Spotted. The person whom I heard use this word applied it to marble-paper,
which he said was " nicely mackled." " Macule. To spot, blot; speck, ..."
2. Exotic Mineralogy,: Or, Coloured Figures of Foreign Minerals, as a by James Sowerby (1817)
"The other remarkable crystals upon this plate are, the rhomb, fig. 7 ; the mackled
... the latter is also mackled ; and a lilac ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1881)
"'I mackled his old coat up for him.' (Belgrave, CE) Mad, adj. angry; greatly vexed.
Vide Wild. Made-earth, and Made-ground, sb. soil that has been disturbed ..."
4. Plutarch's Lives by Plutarch (1804)
"... as if he had been mackled, not knowing what method to take. For the thong in
the middle of the javelin rendered it difficult to be drawn out ; nor would ..."
5. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain). (1867)
"I am not sure whether it is used as a neuter verb in English. It has given rise
to several derivatives, which are of English formation; as mackled, adj., ..."
6. The Poems of Philip Freneau: Poet of the American Revolution by Philip Morin Freneau, Fred Lewis Pattee (1907)
"... dull nor very bright, Yet shews some marks of humour in his face, One who can
pen an anecdote, complete, Or plague the parson with the mackled sheet. ..."
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