† couweeadj.
Obsolete.
In ‘ryme couwee’, Old French rime couée, medieval Latin rithmus caudatus tailed rhyme, applied to a couplet or stanza with a tail, tag, or additional short line.
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c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Prol. 85 If it were made in ryme couwee, Or in strangere, or enterlace, Þat rede Inglis it ere Inowe, þat couthe not haf coppled a kowe, þat outhere in couwee, or in baston, Som suld haf ben fordon.
a1400 Ars Rithmicandi in Reliq. Antiq. 1 32 Rithmorum caudatorum alii sunt consoni alii dissoni..Primus modus est quando duæ distinctiones concordant simul, et additur cauda, et duæ aliæ simul, et additur cauda, et caudæ concordant.]
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adj.c1330- hartlike
- hartroot
- hartroyal
- harts
- harts clover
- harts-tongue
- hartshorn
- hartshorn beetle
- hartshorn drops
- hartshorn jelly
- hartshorn plantain
- hartshorn shavings
- hartshorn tea
- hartshorn-rasper
- hartshornrasper
- hartshorns
- hartskin
- hartstongue
- hartthorn
- hartwolf
- hartwort
- hartwort of marseilles
- harum-scarum
- harum-scarumness
- harumfrodite