Antonyms for ms:
noun young female person
noun adult
Examples of uses:
First, in point of view of general interest, is a collection of drawings and poems in their original ms. by Thackeray.
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Title: The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries, author: Charles G. Harper, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/39234/39234-h/39234-h.htm
We can easily understand that the original ms. ended here suddenly, the rest being torn away or lost.
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Title: Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) -- Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems, author: Geoffrey Chaucer, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/43089/43089-h/43089-h.htm
Even thus, the line is imperfect, but is completed by help of the Sion ms., which reads me weel chastyce.
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Title: Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) -- Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems, author: Geoffrey Chaucer, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/43089/43089-h/43089-h.htm
Even in a Chaucer ms., the curious spelling vigour or vigur for figure occurs over and over again; viz.
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Title: Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) -- Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems, author: Geoffrey Chaucer, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/43089/43089-h/43089-h.htm
It would be very easy, in carelessly copying a ms., to substitute either word for the other.
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Title: Notes and Queries, Number 178, March 26, 1853, author: Various, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42795/42795-h/42795-h.htm
This implies that Stowe had seen more than one ms. containing these lines.
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Title: Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) -- Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems, author: Geoffrey Chaucer, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/43089/43089-h/43089-h.htm
The Phillipps ms. is merely a copy of the other, but preserves the last stanza.
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Title: Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) -- Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems, author: Geoffrey Chaucer, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/43089/43089-h/43089-h.htm
The printed copy resembles Shirley's ms. so closely, that both seem to have been derived from a common source.
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Title: Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) -- Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems, author: Geoffrey Chaucer, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/43089/43089-h/43089-h.htm
The latter reading does not suit the right order of the rimes; but it points to a lost ms.
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Title: Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) -- Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems, author: Geoffrey Chaucer, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/43089/43089-h/43089-h.htm
ms. han ye me, correctly; Percy omits me, and so spoils both sense and metre.
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Title: Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) -- Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems, author: Geoffrey Chaucer, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/43089/43089-h/43089-h.htm
