name, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb

1. 1
   simple past of find. dialectal, form-of, past

   "And lent her wary eare to understand If any puffe of breath or signe of sence shee fand"

Proper Noun

1. 1
   A fairy and the wife of Manannán mac Lir and later the lover of Cúchulainn. Irish

Synonyms

All synonyms

tempttry

Example

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"And lent her wary eare to understand If any puffe of breath or signe of sence shee fand"

Etymology

From Middle English [Term?], from Old English fand, first- and third-person singular preterite of Old English findan (“to find”).

Related phrases

manannán mac lir

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