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Society for Pure English, Tract 02 - On English Homophones by Robert Seymour Bridges;Society for Pure English
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MOUSE (_verb_): to bite and tear.

MOW = a grimace.

MUSE = to wonder: lost in _amuse_ and _Muse_.

NEAT = ox.

OUNCE = pard.

PALL = to fail.

PEAK: survives only in 'peak and pine' and in _peaky_.

PELTING = paltry, also PELT = a skin, lost.

PILL = to plunder.

PINK = ornamental slashing of dress.

POKE = pocket.

POLL = to cut the hair.

QUARRY (as used in sport).

QUEAN = a woman.

RACK (of clouds).
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