arew
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arew (not comparable)
- Obsolete spelling of arow (“in a row”)
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 29:
- all her teeth arew
- [1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC:
- Twelve lodgings of like stone, like height, were likewise built arew.
References edit
- “arew”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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Verb edit
arew (intensive aorist yettarew, aorist yarew, preterite yurew, negative preterite yuriw)
- to give birth, to bear (human children or fruit)
- Turew-d taqcict.
- She gave birth to a girl.
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Noun edit
arew
- Alternative form of arow