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Instance of: lemon:LexicalSense
Property Value
lemon:definition Statement1
rdf:type lemon:SenseDefinition
lemon:value eng “Middle English amusen from Middle French amuser (“to amuse, divert”) (modern French amuser (“to make stay, detain, amuse”)) from Old French amuser (“to stupefy”) from a- + muser (“to stare stupidly at, be bewildered”), possibly from Old French mus (“snout”) from {ML.} musum of Germanic languages origin; or from Frankish *, * (“to stun, confuse, confound”) from . Akin to Old English amasian (“to confuse, stupefy, bewilder”) (English amaze), Old Norse masa (“to struggle, be confused”) (Norwegian mas (“exhausting labour”), Norwegian masast (“to be dazed, begin to dream”), Swedish masa (“to dawdle, idle”), Swedish mos (“sluggish, sleepy”)). More at amaze.”
lemon:value eng “To fling dust or snuff in the eyes of the person intended to be robbed; also to invent some plausible tale, to delude shop-keepers and others, thereby to put them off their guard. (1811 Dictionary of Vulgar Tongue)”
uby:definitionType “intensionalDefinition”
uby:statementType “etymology”
uby:index “4”
uby:monolingualExternalRef MonolingualExternalRef1
rdf:type uby:MonolingualExternalRef
uby:externalReference “41338:0:4”
uby:externalSystem “Wiktionary sense key”
uby:semanticLabel SemanticLabel1
rdf:type uby:SemanticLabel
uby:label “cant”
uby:type “register”

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