Lexicographical Neighbors of Foyned
Literary usage of Foyned
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Royal Tribes of Wales by Philip Yorke (1799)
"... wch. will do well, being foyned to my place in Cambridge ; and therefore if your
... foyned ..."
2. Le Morte D'Arthur by Thomas Malory (1908)
"And when they had stricken so together long, then they left their strokes, and
foyned at their breaths and visors; ..."
3. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1795)
"None was ever more foyned to interest curiosity; from the importance of the
events, the dignity of the persons concerned, the greatness of the ..."
4. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1889)
"The marks on grass left by deer in their passage. Howell. FOYNE. A heap, or
abundance. Also, foes. Towneley Mysteries. (Qu. few.) foyned. Kicked. ..."
5. The Gentleman's Magazine (1855)
"... struck another with a pitchfork on the head, “and foyned him in the necke and
in the arnie Wi the same. ..."
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