Meaning of losse | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A lynx.
   obsolete
2. Obsolete spelling of loss.
   alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“A losse went to prepare to hunt.”

“Losse, lynx (Dutch, los)”

“Who dyes the vtmoſt dolor doth abye, / But who that liues, is lefte to waile his loſſe: / So life is loſſe, and death felicity.”

“Then way what loſſe your honor may ſuſtaine / If with too credent eare you liſt his ſongs / Or looſe your hart, or your chaſt treaſure open / To his vnmaſtred importunity.”

“[…]the Lord denounceth thoſe iudgements againſt her, from which ſpecially ſhee bleſſed her ſelfe, euen loſſe of Soueraigntie, ſlaughter and deſolation :[…]”

“Soe they resolved with losse of their lives to recover or to end the losse of theire libertie , being overcarried indifferently with hate and disdaine , two mightie passions to drive on disordered desires”

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