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Definition of Poyson
1. to poison [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: poison
Lexicographical Neighbors of Poyson
Literary usage of Poyson
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"Of venemous Apples, wherewith they poyson their Arrowes. ... which are the chiefe
with sinne, the Archers among the Indians, are accustomed to poyson *? ..."
2. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"Of venemous Apples, wherewith they poyson their Arrowes. ... are accustomed to
poyson aaj" whereof their Arrowes, wherewith they kill all that they wound: ..."
3. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"Of venemous Apples, wherewith they poyson their Arrowes. ... which are the chiefe
with sinne, the Archers among the Indians, are accustomed to poyson *? ..."
4. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1887)
"... Bane and poyson to the Protestant Religion, &c.,'1700. 16. 'The Doctrine which
is according to Godliness, &c. ' [1700?] (another edition, 1737). ..."
5. English Prose and Verse from Beowulf to Stevenson by Henry Spackman Pancoast (1915)
"... oure enemy, Putte in his thought that he sholde poyson beye,4 845 toun, With
which he ... hym large bo telles thre, And in the two his poyson poured he; ..."
6. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S.: Secretary to the by Samuel Pepys, Richard Griffin Braybrooke (1855)
"Anon to Gresham College, where, among other good discourse, there was tried the
great poyson of ... poyson ..."
7. The Harleian Miscellany: Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1809)
"... Lately discovered, and yet living, To the great Annoyance and divers Slaughters
both of Men and Cattell, by hi$ strong and violent poyson : In Sussex, ..."
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