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Webster 1913 Edition
Alew
A-lewβ²
,Noun.
Halloo.
[Obs.]
Spenser.
Definition 2024
alew
alew
English
Noun
alew β(plural alews)
- (obsolete, rare) A cry of despair.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.6:
- Yet did she not lament with loude alew, / As women wont, but with deepe sighes and singults few.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.6: