Lexicographical Neighbors of Shealed
Literary usage of Shealed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr. of by William Shakespeare (1809)
"... shall want some— / That's a shealed peascod.i [Pointing to LEAB: Gon. Not only,
sir, this your all-licens'd fool, But other of your insole'nt retinue Do ..."
2. The Shakespeare reader: with notes, historical and grammatical by W.S. Dalgleish by William Shakespeare (1871)
"A shealed peascod. —An emptied pea- pod ; referring to his being deprived of his
power. shealed, properly applied to peas taken out of the shell, ..."
3. Shakespeare's Tragedy of King Lear by William Shakespeare (1903)
"A shelled pea-pod; a mere husk. shealed is only the old spelling of shelled,
which some eds. give instead. S. uses the verb nowhere else. ..."
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