noint

English

Verb

noint (third-person singular simple present noints, present participle nointing, simple past and past participle nointed)

  1. Obsolete form of anoint.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)Winter's Tale Act 4, Scene 4; AUTOLYCUS:

He has a son, who shall be flayed alive; then 'nointed over with honey, set on the head of a wasp's nest; then stand till he be three quarters and a dram dead; then recovered again with aqua-vitae or some other hot infusion; then, raw as he is, and in the hottest day prognostication proclaims, shall be be set against a brick-wall, the sun looking with a southward eye upon him, where he is to behold him with flies blown to death.

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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 noint in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Middle Dutch

Adverb

noint

  1. Alternative form of noit
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