Citations:linnow

(Shropshire, Montgomeryshire) limp, flexible, pliant, supple



 * 1528 (1535), Paynel, Salerne's Regim.,, page 108 b:
 * Baynyngmaketh the skynne linnowe or soupulle.
 * 1877, "an aged man", quoted in The Montgomeryshire Collections, page 216:
 * "I'm as linnow now as ever."
 * 1879, Georgina Frederica Jackson, Shropshire Word-book: A Glossary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Etc., Used in the County, page 258:
 * 'These starched things bin as linnow as the dish-clout, the Maister'll never put 'is collars on like this.'
 * 1904, Catherine Milnes Gaskell, Old Shropshire Life, page 291:
 * Then Rowland got up with a despairing gesture. “I haven't nobody,” he murmured, and went tottering up the stairs. “Lor!” said Priss meditatively, “I thought as the lad wud have had more spunk in 'im, but he's as linnow as a glove.

verb: make supple, render pliable
* 1572, J. JONES, Bathes of Bath, ii 196:
 * Of the sweete taste, it shall have the' power, that it may linnow, smooth, and fynely lewse.