rescowe

English

Verb

rescowe (third-person singular simple present rescowes, present participle rescowing, simple past and past participle rescowed)

  1. Obsolete form of rescue.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)
    • Le Morte d'Arthur.
      it wylle be best ye hold yow stylle with this / And yf ye see that as to morne they wylle put me vnto the dethe / thenne may ye rescowe me as ye thynke best.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for rescowe in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.