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- Formerly - adv. - In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
- Robinet - n. - A military engine formerly used for throwing darts and stones.
- Bottle - n. - A hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, for holding liquids.
- Christcross-row - - The alphabet; -- formerly so called, either from the cross usually set before it, or from a superstitious custom, sometimes practiced, of writing it in the form of a cross, by way of a charm.
- After - prep. - Later in time; subsequent; as, after supper, after three days. It often precedes a clause. Formerly that was interposed between it and the clause.
- Algonkin - n. - One of a widely spread family of Indians, including many distinct tribes, which formerly occupied most of the northern and eastern part of North America. The name was originally applied to a group of Indian tribes north of the River St. Lawrence.
- Vixen - n. - A cross, ill-tempered person; -- formerly used of either sex, now only of a woman.
- Air - n. - Any aeriform body; a gas; as, oxygen was formerly called vital air.
- Spontoon - n. - A kind of half-pike, or halberd, formerly borne by inferior officers of the British infantry, and used in giving signals to the soldiers.
- Stoolball - n. - A kind of game with balls, formerly common in England, esp. with young women.
- Large - n. - A musical note, formerly in use, equal to two longs, four breves, or eight semibreves.
- Toltec - n. - One of a race which formerly occupied Mexico.
- Domino - n. - A mourning veil formerly worn by women.
- Ferae - n. pl. - A group of mammals which formerly included the Carnivora, Insectivora, Marsupialia, and lemurs, but is now often restricted to the Carnivora.
- Dag - n. - A large pistol formerly used.
- Avercorn - n. - A reserved rent in corn, formerly paid to religious houses by their tenants or farmers.
- Hyposulphite - n. - A salt of what was formerly called hyposulphurous acid; a thiosulphate.
- Abelmosk - n. - An evergreen shrub (Hibiscus -- formerly Abelmoschus -- moschatus), of the East and West Indies and Northern Africa, whose musky seeds are used in perfumery and to flavor coffee; -- sometimes called musk mallow.
- Lincoln green - - A color of cloth formerly made in Lincoln, England; the cloth itself.
- Natchez - n. pl. - A tribe of Indians who formerly lived near the site of the city of Natchez, Mississippi. In 1729 they were subdued by the French; the survivors joined the Creek Confederacy.
- Sorry - a. - Grieved for the loss of some good; pained for some evil; feeling regret; -- now generally used to express light grief or affliction, but formerly often used to express deeper feeling.
- Saturnine - a. - Of or pertaining to lead; characterized by, or resembling, lead, which was formerly called Saturn.
- Kreutzer - n. - A small copper coin formerly used in South Germany; also, a small Austrian copper coin.
- Morintannic - a. - Pertaining to, or designating, a variety of tannic acid extracted from fustic (Maclura, formerly Morus, tinctoria) as a yellow crystalline substance; -- called also maclurin.
- Tournament - n. - A mock fight, or warlike game, formerly in great favor, in which a number of combatants were engaged, as an exhibition of their address and bravery; hence, figuratively, a real battle.
- Gambison - n. - A defensive garment formerly in use for the body, made of cloth stuffed and quilted.
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- H3528 כְּבָר - 3528 כְּבָר - כְּבָר - - kᵉbâr - keb-awr' - from כָּבַר; properly, extent of time, i.e. a great while; hence, long ago, formerly, hitherto; already, (seeing that which), now. - Adverb - heb
- G3819 πάλαι - 3819 πάλαι - ΠΆΛΑΙ - - pálai - pal'-ahee - probably another form for πάλιν (through the idea of retrocession); (adverbially) formerly, or (by relatively) sometime since; (elliptically as adjective) ancient:--any while, a great while ago, (of) old, in time past. - Adverb - greek