See Also: Martinware(dictionary)

largition (iou) and Martinware (iou)


largition (iou)



largition noun. Now rare. M16.
[Old French largicion or its source Latin largitio(n-), from largit- pa. ppl stem of largiri be bountiful, from largus: see LARGE adjective, -ITION.]
The bestowal of gifts or largesse; bountiful giving; an instance of this.

Martinware (iou)



Martinware noun. L19.
[from Martin (see below) + WARE noun2.]
A type of brown, salt-glazed, freq. elaborately modelled pottery made by the Martin brothers in Southall, now part of London, in the late 19th and early 20th cents.