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" A pretty game ! like Crambo, Master Skogan " ; but adds that he has found no account of the history of that game. It will be found in recent editions of Johnson's Dictionary as a " Play at which one gives a word, to which another finds a rhyme," with... "
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edited by - 1883 - 521 pages
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A dictionary of the English language. Abstracted from the folio ed., by the ...

Samuel Johnson - 1768 - 1002 pages
...Catiety. Kifg. 3. Tothruftinbyfoice. Dry Jen. To CRAM. v. *. To eat beyond fatiety. Fife. CRA'MBO. f. A play, at which one gives a word, to which another finds a rhyme. Sviift. CRAMP./ [Iramfe, Dutch.] i. A fpafm or contraction of the limbs. Ban*, i. A reftriifHcr. ;...
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A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...

Samuel Johnson - 1812 - 808 pages
...satiety. A'inf. 3 To thrust in by force. Druden. To CRAM, vn To eat beyond satiety. Pope. CRA'MBO, i. A play at which one gives a word, to which another finds a rhyme. Strift. CRAMP, s. Ifcrampt, Dutch.] 1 A spasm or contraction of the limbs. Bacon. SA restriction ,-...
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Pantologia. A new (cabinet) cyclopædia, by J.M. Good, O. Gregory ..., Volume 3

John Mason Good - 1819 - 694 pages
...ajid multiplies exceedingly by the roots, which it will continue todo for several years. CllA'.MBO. i. a play at which one gives a word, to which another finds a rhyme (Swift). CRAMER (Gabriel), a mathematician of Oeneva, horn in Ifi91. He became professor of mathematics,...
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A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...

Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 852 pages
...thrust in by force. Shakspeare. To CRAM. t'. n. To eat beyond satiety. Pope. CRA'MBO. ni [a cant word.) A play at which one gives a word, to which another finds a rhyme; a rhyme. Swift. CRAMP. ». •, [krampe, Dut.l A spasm or contraction of the limbs. S/iatspeare. A...
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A Comprehensive Pronouncing and Explanatory Dictionary of the English ...

Joseph Emerson Worcester - 1831 - 440 pages
...prominences. uruin, va to stuff; to thrust in by fore«. 'i ,. m , vn to eat beyond satiety. 't ,'ni'liv , n- a play at which one gives a word to which another finds a rhyme. Cramp, л. а spasmodic contraction of the liratw ; a restriction ; a piece of bent iron. Cramp, a....
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An Explanatory and Phonographic Pronouncing Dictionary of the English ...

William Bolles - 1846 - 960 pages
...beyond satiety. To thrust in by force. CRAM, kram', vi. To eat beyond satiety. CRAMBO, krlm-bo, n. A play at which one gives a word, to which another finds a rhyme ; a rhyme. CRAMMED, krJm'd, pp. Stuffed; crowded; filled with food. CRAMMING, krJm-Ing, ppr. Filling;...
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Notes and Queries, Volume 44

1871 - 732 pages
...account of the history of that game. It will be found in recent editions of Johnson's Dictionary as a " Play at which one gives a word, to which another finds a rhyme," with citations from Swift, Dennis, &c. In regard to " Tom Bedloe," he is more successful. He takes...
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A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language: Incorporating the ...

James Knowles - 1851 - 818 pages
...krim', tt. To fill with food beyond satiety. CRAM, krlm , ri. To eat beyond satiety. CRAMBO, kramibo, n. A play at which one gives a word, to which another finds a rhyme ; a rhyme. CRAMMED, krim'd, pp. Stuffed ; crowded ; filled with food. CRAMMING, krlm-lng, ppr. Filling;...
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Dictionary of the English Language Exhibiting Orthography, Pronunciation and ...

Arnold James Cooley - 1861 - 1000 pages
...cramrn'myl, p., s. ; crammed^, pp. (v. L) 89.— A cram§ = a hoax or lie. Crambof, kram'-bo, s. A rhyme ; a play at which one gives a word to which another finds a rhyme. Cramming^, krrtm'-Ing, s. Prep, a student for exam., and furn. him with the requisite answers to the...
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Routledge's Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language ...

P Austin Nuttall - 1867 - 776 pages
...tCttk'tr, s. A boaster. [greedily. Cram, t-.a. To stuff; to press in ; — v.rt. To eat Cnzn'bd, s. A play at which one gives a word, to which another finds a rhyme. Orun'ming, t. A cant term in the universities arid other institutions for the act of preparing a student...
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