used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading 'O sister, sister, tak my glove, And yese get Willie, my true-love.'
Aye
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From this reading Aye she swittert, and aye she swam, Till she cam to yon bonnie mill-dam.
bakeverbUS /beɪk/
cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven
From this reading The miller's dochter cam out wi speed, It was for water, to bake her bread.
bonnieadjectiveUS /ˈbɑːni/
very pleasing to the eye
From this reading Aye she swittert, and aye she swam, Till she cam to yon bonnie mill-dam.
food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked
From this reading The miller's dochter cam out wi speed, It was for water, to bake her bread.
camnounUS /kæm/
a river in east central England that flows past Cambridge to join the Ouse River
From this reading Aye she swittert, and aye she swam, Till she cam to yon bonnie mill-dam.
dochter
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From this reading The miller's dochter cam out wi speed, It was for water, to bake her bread.
fanoun
the syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization
From this reading 'Foul fa the hand that I wad take, To twin me o my warld's make.'
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading 'Sister, sister, I'll na tak your glove, For I'll get Willie, your true-love.'
FouladjectiveUS /faʊl/
highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
From this reading 'Foul fa the hand that I wad take, To twin me o my warld's make.'
come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
From this reading 'O sister, sister, tak my glove, And yese get Willie, my true-love.'
glovenounUS /ɡlʌv/
the handwear used by fielders in playing baseball
From this reading 'O sister, sister, tak my glove, And yese get Willie, my true-love.'
the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb
From this reading 'Foul fa the hand that I wad take, To twin me o my warld's make.'
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading The miller's dochter cam out wi speed, It was for water, to bake her bread.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading 'Foul fa the hand that I wad take, To twin me o my warld's make.'
I'll
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From this reading 'Sister, sister, I'll na tak your glove, For I'll get Willie, your true-love.'
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading The miller's dochter cam out wi speed, It was for water, to bake her bread.
engage in
From this reading 'Foul fa the hand that I wad take, To twin me o my warld's make.'
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading 'Foul fa the hand that I wad take, To twin me o my warld's make.'
mill-dam
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From this reading Aye she swittert, and aye she swam, Till she cam to yon bonnie mill-dam.
miller'snounUS /ˈmɪlərz/
possessive form of “miller” — United States bandleader of a popular big band (1909-1944)
From this reading The miller's dochter cam out wi speed, It was for water, to bake her bread.
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading 'Foul fa the hand that I wad take, To twin me o my warld's make.'
nanounUS /nɑː/
a silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group
From this reading 'Sister, sister, I'll na tak your glove, For I'll get Willie, your true-love.'
a nonmetallic bivalent element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless nonflammable diatomic gas; constitutes 21 percent of the atmosphere by volume; the most abundant element in the earth's crust
From this reading 'Foul fa the hand that I wad take, To twin me o my warld's make.'
not allowed to continue to bat or run
From this reading The miller's dochter cam out wi speed, It was for water, to bake her bread.
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Aye she swittert, and aye she swam, Till she cam to yon bonnie mill-dam.
a female person who has the same parents as another person
From this reading 'O sister, sister, tak my glove, And yese get Willie, my true-love.'
move hurridly
From this reading The miller's dochter cam out wi speed, It was for water, to bake her bread.
swamverbUS /swæm/
inflected form of “swim” — travel through water
From this reading Aye she swittert, and aye she swam, Till she cam to yon bonnie mill-dam.
swittert
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From this reading Aye she swittert, and aye she swam, Till she cam to yon bonnie mill-dam.
tak
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From this reading 'O sister, sister, tak my glove, And yese get Willie, my true-love.'
carry out
From this reading 'Foul fa the hand that I wad take, To twin me o my warld's make.'
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading 'Foul fa the hand that I wad take, To twin me o my warld's make.'
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading 'Foul fa the hand that I wad take, To twin me o my warld's make.'
up to a particular time
From this reading Aye she swittert, and aye she swam, Till she cam to yon bonnie mill-dam.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading 'Foul fa the hand that I wad take, To twin me o my warld's make.'
true-love
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From this reading 'O sister, sister, tak my glove, And yese get Willie, my true-love.'
twinnounUS /twɪn/
either of two offspring born at the same time from the same pregnancy
From this reading 'Foul fa the hand that I wad take, To twin me o my warld's make.'
wadverbUS /wɑːd/
compress into a wad
From this reading 'Foul fa the hand that I wad take, To twin me o my warld's make.'
warld's
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From this reading 'Foul fa the hand that I wad take, To twin me o my warld's make.'
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading The miller's dochter cam out wi speed, It was for water, to bake her bread.
binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent
From this reading The miller's dochter cam out wi speed, It was for water, to bake her bread.
winoun
a midwestern state in north central United States
From this reading The miller's dochter cam out wi speed, It was for water, to bake her bread.
Willie
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From this reading 'O sister, sister, tak my glove, And yese get Willie, my true-love.'
yese
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From this reading 'O sister, sister, tak my glove, And yese get Willie, my true-love.'
yonadjectiveUS /jɑːn/
distant but within sight (“yon” is dialectal)
From this reading Aye she swittert, and aye she swam, Till she cam to yon bonnie mill-dam.
belonging to the person or people being spoken to
From this reading 'Sister, sister, I'll na tak your glove, For I'll get Willie, your true-love.'
