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Meaning of SPENSER

Pronunciation:  'spensur

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 Definition: [n]  English poet who wrote an allegorical romance celebrating Elizabeth I in the Spenserian stanza (1552-1599)
 
 Synonyms: Edmund Spenser
 
 See Also: poet

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. 2. To take one's self off; to go. [Slang]
    
             As long as George the Fourth could reign, he
             reigned, And then he mizzled.         --Epigram,
                                                   quoted by
                                                   Wright.
    
    
  2.    Wondrous great grief groweth in my spright. --Spenser.
    
    2. A supernatural being; a spirit; a shade; an apparition; a
       ghost.
    
             Forth he called, out of deep darkness dread, Legions
             of sprights.                          --Spenser.
    
             To thee, O Father, Son, and Sacred Spright.
                                                   --Fairfax.
    
    3. A kind of short arrow. [Obs.] --Bacon.
    
    
 

 

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