Lexicographical Neighbors of Poyses
Literary usage of Poyses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Boke Named The Gouernour by Thomas Elyot (1883)
"poyses, equal weights, dumb-bells.— I. 171. ... in his Dictionary, translates
Alteres, ' poyses of lead made to ..."
2. Publications by Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) (1853)
"To labour with poyses of leade, or other metal!, called in Latine Alteres :
lifting and throwing of the stone, barre, or bowle, with bande or foote ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1893)
"I foresee," said George, looking dreamily into a cloud of smoke, —" I foresee a
future race of Col- poyses evolved into such a state of absolute ..."
4. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"poyses. Posies. On every dore wer кЧ whit crosse« and ragged staves, with rimes
and poi/tei. ..."
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