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Example sentences from the Web for OSTAge is so hard-earned,” Ost tells The Daily Beast, “it has to be celebrated. Advanced Style: An Ode to Old Lady Chic|Isabel Wilkinson|May 14, 2012|DAILY BEAST And if ei somtyme 220 makyng an ost aeynest vs assaile vs as strengere. Chaucer's Translation of Boethius's 'De Consolatione Philosophiae'|Geoffrey Chaucer The dwellers in this town shall go neither to the ost (feudal levy) nor on any other expedition unless I lead the same in person. Life on a Mediaeval Barony|William Stearns Davis Starost, str′ost, n. a Polish noble holding a Star′osty or domain by grant of life-estate from the crown. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements)|Various
The abverbial forms in -or and -ost, as compared with the adjectival in -re, and -este explain the form rather. A Handbook of the English Language|Robert Gordon Latham He is captain in your Garde Ecossais, and my 'ost told me 'e has distinguished himself as soldier pretty much. The Man Upstairs|P. G. Wodehouse
abbreviation for (in the US)Office of Science and Technology Words nearby OSTOssining, osso bucco, ossobuco, ossuarium, ossuary, OST, O star, oste-, osteal, ostealgia, ostectomy Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |