From <span class="searchmatch">writ</span> (“written”) + <span class="searchmatch">small</span>, by analogy with <span class="searchmatch">writ</span> large. <span class="searchmatch">writ</span> <span class="searchmatch">small</span> (comparative <span class="searchmatch">writ</span> <span class="searchmatch">smaller</span>, superlative <span class="searchmatch">writ</span> smallest) Used other than figuratively...
attachment <span class="searchmatch">writ</span> of execution <span class="searchmatch">writ</span> of habeas corpus <span class="searchmatch">writ</span> of inquiry <span class="searchmatch">writ</span> of mandamus <span class="searchmatch">writ</span> of privilege <span class="searchmatch">writ</span> of prohibition <span class="searchmatch">writ</span> of right <span class="searchmatch">writ</span> of summons <span class="searchmatch">writ</span>-room...
<span class="searchmatch">Small</span> Banisilan <span class="searchmatch">small</span> beer <span class="searchmatch">small</span> bikkies <span class="searchmatch">small</span>-billed tinamou <span class="searchmatch">small</span> blind <span class="searchmatch">small</span> block <span class="searchmatch">small</span> blue Smallbone <span class="searchmatch">small</span>-bore <span class="searchmatch">small</span> bowel <span class="searchmatch">small</span> breasts <span class="searchmatch">small</span>...
Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dʒ <span class="searchmatch">writ</span> large (comparative <span class="searchmatch">writ</span> larger, superlative <span class="searchmatch">writ</span> largest) (figuratively) On a large scale; magnified. Antonym: <span class="searchmatch">writ</span> <span class="searchmatch">small</span> 1866, George...
brother’s death; the petty sadism of institutional authority (Gaullism, it seems, <span class="searchmatch">writ</span> <span class="searchmatch">small</span>); and always, the raging hormones of adolescence. Killary...
page 444: A <span class="searchmatch">small</span>, nondescript Northeastern town bound by a chain of frozen lakes in midwinter, Framingham is nonetheless an iconic place <span class="searchmatch">writ</span> large in the...
(plural billettes) <span class="searchmatch">small</span> ball a game using <span class="searchmatch">small</span> balls firewood; log intended as firewood (heraldry) billet (diamond shape) decree; order; <span class="searchmatch">writ</span> French: billette...
Hebrew גֵּט (gēṭ). gett (plural getts) Alternative form of get (“Jewish <span class="searchmatch">writ</span> of divorce”). Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop...
Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene vi], page 30: If you haue <span class="searchmatch">writ</span> your Annales true, 'tis there, / That like an Eagle in a Doue-cote, I / Flutter'd...
announcement a directory, index, register a <span class="searchmatch">writ</span> or document attesting the conclusion of an agreement of any kind a <span class="searchmatch">writ</span> or document confirming the receival of...