Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To buzz; hum.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun See byssus, n., 1.

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  • I would contend that we will find it, amongst other places, in the numerous occasions where Laclau has recourse to the notion of the ontological difference — in the radical Heideggerian understanding of difference-as-difference, a notion which simultaneouly points at the a-byss of the nonground and thus has to be situated within the wider horizon of current post-foundational thinking.

    enowning enowning 2009

  • I would contend that we will find it, amongst other places, in the numerous occasions where Laclau has recourse to the notion of the ontological difference — in the radical Heideggerian understanding of difference-as-difference, a notion which simultaneouly points at the a-byss of the nonground and thus has to be situated within the wider horizon of current post-foundational thinking.

    Archive 2009-02-01 enowning 2009

  • a byss ', _chasm; deep space_. phan'tom, _ghost; airy spirit_.

    New National Fourth Reader J. Marshall Hawkes

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