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Definition of Scarmoge
1. a skirmish [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scarmoge
Literary usage of Scarmoge
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"... He will be ... next spring call'd to the scarlet, B. Jonson, Alchem. i.
1 (Subtle). scarmoge, an irregular fight, a ' skirmish'. Spenser, FQ ii. 6. 34. ..."
2. A new dictionary of the English language by Charles Richardson (1839)
"scarmoge. See SKIRMISH. SCARP. See SCARF. SCATHE, ». s. To separate, to sever, sc.
-FUL.* parts constituting one whole ; what -LESS, t appertains or belongs ..."
3. A Dictionary of the Portuguese and English Languages, in Two Parts ...by Antonio Vieyra, Jacinto Dias do Canto by Antonio Vieyra, Jacinto Dias do Canto (1827)
"... nu scarmoge. Spen eer. Ve Skirmish. Scarp, s. (t. fort.) escarpa. Scarred.
Ve o seguinte. Scarry, adj. que tern cicatrizes certas ..."
4. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"Spelt scarmoge, Spenser, FQ ii. 6. 34.— OF escarmouche, 'a skirmish, bickering;'
Cot. ß. The change of vowel, ..."
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