abash
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The names of these sons of Mizraim as given in history are as follows: Hind, Sind, Zeng, Nuba, Kanaan, Kush, Kopt, Berber and Hebesh, or Abash.
From The Negro: what is His Ethnological Status? 2nd Ed. by Payne, Buckner H. 'Ariel'
Doe I not see a Cynthia, who may Abash the purest beauties of the day?
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume I (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard
And he with his host got back to their own country of Abash in great triumph and rejoicing; for he had well avenged the shame cast on him and on his Bishop for his sake.
From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Yule, Henry
So when he was healed he set out and travelled by land and by sea till he reached the King his Lord in the Kingdom of Abash.
From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Yule, Henry
Abash, a-bash′, v.t. to confuse with shame or guilt.—pa.p.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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