Definition of Karsies

1. karsy [n] - See also: karsy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Karsies

karoo
karoos
karoshi
kaross
karosses
karpatite
karpholite
karpinskite
karree
karri
karris
karroo
karroos
karsey
karseys
karsies (current term)
karst
karstenite
karstic
karstification
karstifications
karstify
karstological
karstologist
karstologists
karstology
karsts
karsy
kart
karter

Literary usage of Karsies

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The principal navigations voyages traffiques and discoveries of the English by Richard Hakluyt (1903)
"three hundred and fiftie pieces of karsies in their ... we chanced to barter nine pieces of karsies with those merchants for ..."

2. Early Voyages and Travels to Russia and Persia, by Anthony Jenkinson and by Edward Delmar Morgan, Charles Henry Coote (1886)
"... with three Richard Tingle. hundred and fiftie pieces of karsies in theyr hands, ... we chanced to barter nine pieces of karsies with those merchants for ..."

3. History of Brazil by Robert Southey (1810)
"First, you must lade in the same ship certaine Hampshire and Devonshire karsies; for the which you must let her depart from London in October, ..."

4. The Captivity of Hans Stade of Hesse: In A.D. 1547-1555, Among the Wild by Hans Staden, Albert Tootal, Richard Francis Burton (1874)
"First, you must lade in the same ship certaine Hampshire <k Devonshire karsies; for the which you must let her depart from London in October, ..."

5. The Voyages of the English Nation to America by Richard Hakluyt, Edmund Goldsmid (1890)
"... karsies: for the which you must let her mane^a voy- depart from London in October, and to touch in the age to S. Canaries, and there to make sale of the ..."

6. Early Voyages and Travels to Russia and Persia by Edward Delmar Morgan, Charles Henry Coote, Anthony Jenkinson (1886)
"And for the sale of our karsies or other wares that you shall haue with you, as our trust is that you will doe for our most profite and commoditie: euen so ..."

7. Phillip Stubbes's Anatomy of the Abuses in England in Shakspere's Youth, A by Phillip Stubbes, Thomas Neogeorgus, Gervase Babington (1879)
"... is passt, because "the said Northern Clothes and karsies doe ... of the said Clothes and karsies." So the Act forbids this stretching, ..."

8. The Plays & Poems of Robert Greene by Robert Greene (1905)
"... used as a name for the colour implied by it. Of this the Century Dictionary gives two illustrations. ' karsies of all orient colours, especially of ..."

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