Obs. [f. prec. vb.]

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  1.  Ply, trim, state.

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a. 1600.  Sir Eger, etc. (1669), 37 (Jam.). They found him in a good apply, Both hay and corn, and bread him by.

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  2.  Application.

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1657.  Colvil, Whigs Supplic. (1751), 71. For the apply will be to Sharp.

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1681.  Lond. Gaz., mdcliv/3. We envy much their more early Apply.

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