Pronounced: scale, verb/noun
Notes: A short word that I didn’t know
Yesterday’s word
The word foison means
- rich harvest (archaic)
- physical energy or strength (used in Scotland)
- (plural) resources (obsolete)
First usage
The word has been around since the early 1300s
Background / Comments
It is very unlikely that anyone will have run across this word (given that two of the definitions are not really used, and the other is regional). My reference material says that the Pilgrims would have run across the word, as it in a book of sermons the used. It comes from Latin fusio (outpouring), which is based on fundere (to pour).
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