With loyal spowse, whose name yclept was Jone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Hymns and Tunes] Reference

Examples of obsolete words: methinks yesterwhiles twixt yclept afeard shoon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Practical Grammar and Composition] Reference

Well, on to the meat of the mag, yclept Black Amazon of Mars, or Stark Rides Again!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-08-01] Reference

"Crescent City," and the Cuban Black Douglas, yclept "Purser Smith," are perhaps better known.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada] Reference

Well-to-do and carefully noting the worthy who fills an arm-chair like a sentry-box, and is yclept the porter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada] Reference

Messrs. Cobden and Co., yclept the Peace Society, upon which such a bloody comment was enacted before Sevastopol.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada] Reference

Some people still exist who dine at one o'clock; some also there are who daily observe that fearsome feast yclept "High Tea.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2)] Reference

He has a rival, an antique yclept Van Bruin, ‘a Hogen Mogen ... Nestorean’ admirer, and the intrigue becomes fast and furious.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Memoir of Mrs. Behn] Reference

DE RESZKÉ taking a little holiday at a concert in Grosvenor Square, where also are Madame PATEY and another EDWARD yclept LLOYD, whom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 19, 1890] Reference

There was a tawdry theatre yclept "Academy of Music," and there was not much to choose in the way of ugliness between two "meeting-houses.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories by American Authors, Volume 6] Reference

Unmarried Set, yclept Loretta, emerged into the Sunlight and hit the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ade's Fables] Reference

Atlacamulco, and got a new director of our forces, a handsome man, yclept.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life in Mexico] Reference

In promenade yclept "The Great," the crowd of cocottes straightway did I stop.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus] Reference

This rustic place was originally the village ale house, yclept "The Horse Shoe.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The King's Post Being a volume of historical facts relating to the posts, mail coaches, coach roads, and railway mail services of and connected with the ancient city of Bristol from 1580 to the present time] Reference

And there came against the place as they stood a young learningknight yclept Dixon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ulysses] Reference

Laidlow (the steward of Abbotsford) on a strong-tailed wiry Highlander, yclept Hoddin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady of the Lake] Reference

Shewahi, yclept Dhat ed Dewahi, for that she is the prime cause of all these troubles.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume II] Reference

In one portion of it, yclept "the End," were gathered many characters more odd than interesting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Romance of California Life] Reference

It was only a few years ago that they had their own theatre, yclept "The Grand Duke's Theatre," at.    From Wordnik.com.  [Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures.] Reference

As hostile as he is to that low style of puffery adopted by a certain adventurer, 'yclept Higgins.    From Wordnik.com.  [Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life (1821)] Reference

They narrow the understanding, and at least acidulate the heart; but those two giants, yclept Bread and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1.] Reference

Xanthippe by name, yclept also Iaia by way of jest, escapes from sorrow since her soul from the body flies.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature] Reference

Shawahi, yclept Zat al-Dawahi, because she is the prime cause of all these calamities and cast us into adversity on this wise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arabian nights. English] Reference

I have been starved -- starved upon pritters and port, and that disgusting specimen of unleavened bread, yclept cakes in the pan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roughing It in the Bush] Reference

Nevertheless, a certain person had been granted the privilege of ingress and egress through that sacred portal, and Mr. Tibbetts, yclept.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bones in London] Reference

Princess Augusta, and Lord Kilkee won her heart by the performance of that most graceful step 'yclept "cover the buckle" in an Irish jig.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Complete] Reference

Raleigh, so yclept for that chiefest friend of American colonization among Englishmen, Sir Walter Raleigh; Council Grove, because, in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Hero and Some Other Folks] Reference