W. Coxe

Cited as W. Coxe. — 6 quotations

Goitrous

Let me not be understood as insinuating that the inhabitants in general are either goitrous or idiots.

Liquidate

Friburg was ceded to Zurich by Sigismund to liquidate a debt of a thousand florins.

Reclaim

A tract of land [Holland] snatched from an element perpetually reclaiming its prior occupancy.

Secularize

At the Reformation the abbey was secularized.

Swarm

At the top was placed a piece of money, as a prize for those who could swarm up and seize it.

Timber

Many of the timbers were decayed.