† venturelingn.
Obsolete. rare.
A young or petty adventurer.
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ventureling1562
bonaventure1598
boneventor1643
risker1678
gambler1838
brinkman1956
1562 W. Bullein Dial. Sorenes f. 27 v, in Bulwarke of Defence It is not to be marueiled, that soche venterlynges and younglinges, stomble so ofte at a Strawe.
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n.1562- to know a move or two
- to know a person a thing or two
- to know a person by her company
- to know a person by his company
- to know a person by the company he keeps
- to know a person by the company she keeps
- to know a person in the biblical sense
- to know a thing or two
- to know about
- to know all is to forgive all
- to know all the angles
- to know all the answers
- to know asunder
- to know backwards
- to know best
- to know better
- to know better formerly also better things
- to know both sides of a penny
- to know by headmark
- to know by heart
- to know by rote
- to know different
- to know enough to come in out of the rain
- to know enough to come in when it rains
- to know enough to go in when it rains