Word Meanings - DEARWORTH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Precious. Piers Plowman.

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• PRECIOUSNESS
  The quality or state of being precious; costliness; dearness.
• PRECIOUS
  1. Of great price; costly; as, a precious stone. "The precious bane." Milton. 2. Of great value or worth; very valuable; highly esteemed; dear; beloved; as, precious recollections. She is more precious than rules. Prov. iii. 15. Many things which
• PRECIOUSLY
  In a precious manner; expensively; extremely; dearly. Also used ironically.
• PLOWMAN; PLOUGHMAN
  1. One who plows, or who holds and guides a plow; hence, a husbandman. Chaucer. Macaulay. 2. A rustic; a countryman; a field laborer. Plowman's spikenard , a European composite weed , having fragrant roots. Dr. Prior.
• SEMIPRECIOUS
  Somewhat precious; as, semiprecious stones or metals.