ensear

English

Etymology

en- + sear

Verb

ensear (third-person singular simple present ensears, present participle ensearing, simple past and past participle enseared)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To sear; to dry up.
    • William Shakespeare
      Ensear thy fertile and conceptious womb.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for ensear in
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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