earst

English

Adverb

earst (not comparable)

Obsolete spelling of erst
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1921), Book I:
  So th' one for wrong, the other strives for right,
  And each to deadly shame would drive his foe:
  The cruell steele so greedily doth bight
  In tender flesh that streames of bloud down flow,
  With which the armes, that earst so bright did show,
  Into a pure vermillion now are dyde: […]

Anagrams

'earts, -aster, Aters, Sater, TASer, Taser, Tesar, arste, aster, rates, reast, resat, setar, stare, stear, tares, tarse, taser, tears, teras

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian ērosta. Compare Dutch eerst and German erst.

Adverb

earst

firstly, at first

Adjective

**West Frisian ordinal numbers**
< 0th	1st	2nd >
Cardinal : ien Ordinal : earst

earst (infl. earste)

first

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