ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Poyson

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Poyson is a noun meaning Obsolete spelling of poison.

Meaning

Obsolete spelling of poison.

Example Sentences

OLD QUEENE. O no, sweet Margaret, the fatall poyson Doth work within my heart, my brain pan breakes, My heart doth faint, I dye.
Bat if honesty, modesty, and sobernes, be required in apparaile, & adorning of mens selues, as we see that it is commended and commaunded in Deuteronomie, & seing that S. Paule also in his epistle to Titus, willeth that there should be among us a sober and holy countenaunce, singularly and specially in women, which ordinarily be very curious in their garmentes, it is certayne and sure, that there is some poyson or venym hidden under the grasse.

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include poysoner, impoisonment, poynt, phisick, poynard, poynado.

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