n. The fixed structure between the great hall and the screens passage in an English medieval timber house.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
verb-intransitive. To search; to pry; to ask; to inquire.
n. A sphere.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
An old spelling of spear, speer, sphere.
Word Usage
"Also zee have herd me seye, that Jerusalem is in the myddes of the world; and that may men preven and schewen there, be a spere, that is pighte in to the erthe, upon the hour of mydday, whan it is equenoxium, that schewethe no schadwe on no syde."