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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X).
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ABLOW, adv.2 In full blow or blossom, abloom. See A, prep.2Slg. 1912 J. Bryce Story of a Ploughboy 144:
Come when you would in spring or summer, you found the place ablow. The sloe was the earliest to break.
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