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ferd
/fɜː(ɹ)d/
noun 5adj 2
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4ADJ.
hot
VERB + FERD
understanding
FERD + NOUN
bread, erle, hunlie, principall, thai, yer
PREP.
than
Definitions
noun
1
A journey, voyage.
2
Provisions for a journey, especially food.
3
A fast pace; a rush or hurry.
4
Effort, impetus, speed; a violent onset.
It was our great desire to have at once been at handy-strokes, well understanding that the ferd of our hot spirits could not long abide in edge.
A dainty husband, an' the best o' men, Fresh in his eild as the gree simmer glen. An' still he maks a ferd his bread to earn— His aim to hae a canty but-an'-ben, Wi' something aye to spare to ilka bairn, That they the gude auld hospitality might learn.
noun
1
Fear.
adj
1
Afraid.
Out of Deuelin toun, The folk wel fast ran, In a water to droun, So ferd were thai than;
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It was our great desire to have at once been at handy-strokes, well understanding that the ferd of our hot spirits could not long abide in edge.
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A dainty husband, an' the best o' men, Fresh in his eild as the gree simmer glen. An' still he maks a ferd his bread to earn— His aim to hae a canty but-an'-ben, Wi' something aye to spare to ilka bai
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Out of Deuelin toun, The folk wel fast ran, In a water to droun, So ferd were thai than;
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George the ferd Erle of Hunlie and second of that name his sone, three. And Jane Gordoun his dochtir, the ferd.
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Gevin vunder our signet, at Edinburgh, the xxiij day of Marche, and of our regnne the ferd yer.
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The first & secund regents sall haif quarterlie ilkane threttein schilling four penneis. The thrid fyfteen sehillings and the ferd and principall twenty shillings.
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