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hent
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Definition:Defn: To seize; to lay hold on; to catch; to get. [Obs.]Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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To take him in the purging of his soul,
When he is fit and seasoned for his passage?
No.
Up, sword, and know thou a more horrid hent.
When he is drunk asleep; or in his rage;
Or in th' incestuous pleasure of his bed;
William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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And of this crying would they never stenten*, *desist
Till they the reines of his bridle henten.
"What folk be ye that at mine homecoming
Perturben so my feaste with crying?"
Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales: The Knight's Tale
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