Sard vs Sayd - What's the difference?
sard | sayd |
(mineral) A variety of carnelian, of a rich reddish yellow or brownish red color.
Any of various brownish red earth pigments formerly used in cosmetics and painting; has more yellow, hardly any blue (see puce), is lighter than russet and darker than traditional carnelian.
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:Remembrest thou what thou sayd''' yesternyght? Wylt thou abyde by the wordes agayne?'' — — ''The Bowge of Corte'' [http://www.luminarium.org/editions/bowge.htm] (' 1499 )
:What thou hast sayd to me. Ham. I must to England, you knowe that — Shakespeare, Hamlet (c. 1600)
(obsolete) said , mentioned earlier
In obsolete terms the difference between sard and sayd
is that sard is to seduce (a woman while sayd is said, mentioned earlier.As a noun sard
is a variety of carnelian, of a rich reddish yellow or brownish red color.As an adjective sayd is
said, mentioned earlier.sard
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(en noun)See also
* sardiusAnagrams
* ----sayd
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(-)- The most excellent historie of the'' Merchant of Venice, ''with the extreme crueltie of'' Shylocke'', the Jewe, towards the sayd merchant, in cutting a just pound of his flesh, and obtaining of Portia by the choyse of three caskets... — A history of the cries of London, Ancient and modern (1884)