"Erminois" is a word in ENGLISH
See Note under Ermine, n., 4.
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A blind man was describing his favorite sport, parachuting. When asked how this was accomplished, he said that things were all done for him: "I am placed in the door with my seeing eye dog and told when to jump. My hand is placed on my release ring for me and out I go with the dog.""But how do you know when you are going to land?" he was asked. "I have a very keen sense of smell, and I can smell the trees and grass when I am 300 feet from the ground" he answered."But how do you know when to lift your legs for the final arrival on the ground?" he was again asked. He quickly answered: "Oh, the dog's leash goes slack."
In old conveyancing. one of the parts of a fine, being an abstract of the writ of covenant, and the …
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Read the complete definitionTo rise in value. [See note under Rise, v. i.]
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Read the complete definitionOf or pertaining to Arminius of his followers, or to their doctrines. See note under Arminian, n.
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Read the complete definitionThe business of receiving money on deposit, loaning money, dlscount-ing notes, issuing notes for circulation, col-iectlng money on notes deposited, …
Read the complete definitionFormerly, a promissory note made by a banker, or banking company, payable to a specified person at a fixed date; …
Read the complete definitionBegotten and born out of lawful matrimony; illegitimate. See Bastard, n., note.
Read the complete definitionIn England, a species of thrush (Turdus merula), a singing bird with a fin note; the merle. In America the …
Read the complete definitionTo shut up, as a town or fortress, by investing it with troops or vessels or war for the purpose …
Read the complete definitionIn Spanish law. An allotment of land acquired hy conquest, to a horse soldier. It was a strip one hundred …
Read the complete definitionThe act or process of preparing staple for spinning, etc., by carding it. See the Note under Card, v. t.
Read the complete definitionAn event; an occurrence; an occasion; a combination of circumstances; a case; an act of God. See the Note under …
Read the complete definitionOf or pertaining to the head. See the Note under Anterior.
Read the complete definitionThe crested screamer of Brazil (Palamedea, / Chauna, chavaria), so called in imitation of its notes; -- called also chauna, …
Read the complete definitionA bird of the family Ampelidae -- so called from its monotonous note. The Bohemion chatterer (Ampelis garrulus) inhabits the …
Read the complete definitionThe meeting of two or more stars or planets in the same degree of the zodiac; as, the conjunction of …
Read the complete definitionImmediate knowledge or perception of the presence of any object, state, or sensation. See the Note under Attention.
Read the complete definitionThe inner envelope of a flower; the part which surrounds the organs of fructification, consisting of one or more leaves, …
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