Alowe
ablaze; aflame.
Historical Examples
Yet do not I alowe the diligence of some to painful, whych drawe out these thyngs by playinge at chesses or dyce.
The Education of Children Desiderius Erasmus
So coulde I alowe them but that my belly can 21not well affare nor a way with fastyng.Canni9.
Two Dyaloges (c. 1549) Desiderius Erasmus
But herin thincke not that I do alowe suche ignoraunce and vnablenes in men.
A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful Peter Martyr
adverb, adjective
(postpositive) (nautical) in or into the lower rigging of a vessel, near the deck
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