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Definition of Sowcing
1. sowce [v] - See also: sowce
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sowcing
Literary usage of Sowcing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Harleian Miscellany: Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1809)
"... I sowcing have enough : She cannot only scold, but she can cuff. Epigram XV.
A woman that did love a cup of ale, Would oft be drunk, and would as often ..."
2. The Harleian Miscellany; Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1809)
"... I sowcing have enough : She cannot only scold, but she can cuff. Epigram XV.
A woman that did love a cup of ale, Would oft be drunk, ..."
3. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1905)
"... the most commendable fashion of Dressing, or sowcing, either Flesh, Fish, or
Fowle : . . . Hereunto also is added the most exquisite English ..."
4. Anecdotes of Literature and Scarce Books by William Beloe (1814)
"And sowcing kills with a grace, How the deer falls, hark how they ring. From the
Suns Darling, a Masque, by John Foard and Thomas Decker. 1656. ..."
5. Second Series of Bibliographical Collections and Notes on Early English by William Carew Hazlitt (1882)
"And likewise the most commendable fashion of Dressing, or sowcing, either Flesh,
Fish, or Fowle : for making of ..."
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