WITNESS / 7
ALL WITNESSES ↗PERMANENT ATTESTATION RECORDWITNESS / 7
OBJECT
BEFORE
CLAIM.
THE PRIMARY OBJECT WAS NOT CHECKED.
The date and form are source-reported. No manuscript or inscription facsimile has been directly inspected for this record.
Present-Day Englishlate 16th to 17th centuryestablished
clue
English literary record
- WITNESS TYPE
- Lexicographic first-use report
- YEAR
- 1600
- LOCATOR
- figurative senses
- REPOSITORY
- Not recorded
- SHELFMARK / OBJECT ID
- Not recorded
- FACSIMILE
- Not linked
- DIRECT INSPECTION
- No
- CONFIDENCE
- established
WORD DOSSIERclue ↗
CANONICAL FORM NODENODE 25 ↗
01
BIBLIOGRAPHIC PROVENANCE
THE SOURCE BEHIND THE CLAIM
- TITLE
- Oxford English Dictionary: clue, n.
- AUTHOR
- Oxford English Dictionary Editors
- YEAR
- Not recorded
- PUBLISHER
- Oxford University Press
- SOURCE TYPE
- historical dictionary
- CITATION KEY
- oed-clue