pile-wornadj.
Explained as: threadbare, having the nap worn off. Editorial miscorrection of plimworth in Thomas Coxeter's edition of New Way to pay Old Debts in Dram. Wks. P. Massinger (1759), taken over by R. P. Jodrell Philol. Eng. Lang. (1820) and subsequently by some later 19th cent. dictionaries (see quot. 1633 at Plymouth cloak n. for correct reading).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
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adj.- conusee
- conusor
- conutrition
- conuzee
- conuzor
- convail
- convale
- convalesce
- convalesced
- convalescence
- convalescences
- convalescencies
- convalescency
- convalescent
- convalescently
- convalescents
- convalesces
- convalescing
- convalidate
- convalidation
- convall lily
- convallamaretin
- convallamarin
- convallaretin
- convallarin