nost

See also: nôt

English

Etymology

From Middle English nost, nast, from Old English nāst (“wost not”), second person singular indicative of Old English nitan, nytan (“to know not”), equivalent to ne +‎ wost.

Contraction

nost

  1. (obsolete) Contraction of ne wost; wost not; knowest not.
þu nost wanne crist ure drikte
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for nost in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Latvian

Adverb

nost

  1. away
    Rokas nost!
    Hands off!
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