Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Humus (which see).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) See
humin .
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- noun chemistry
humin
Etymologies
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Examples
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We should not neglect to remark, however, that the word gein has been employed by some writers in the sense in which we use humus, viz.: to denote the brown or black products of the decomposition of vegetable matters.
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September 7, 2008 at 4:17 pm oh i luv stinki ones *onley if iz not de one gein suprised*
ENEMY DOG APPROACHING - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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I love ed gein too, but I've seen them 3 times already, so it's not as big a deal.
mesocyclone Diary Entry mesocyclone 2006
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I really don't feel that much like "going" to a show either, but I still want to see ed gein.
mesocyclone Diary Entry mesocyclone 2005
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They can't stand hardcore (yet, they love converge and ed gein. .figure that one out) and Love Doom stuff ... which is fine, but ..
mesocyclone Diary Entry mesocyclone 2004
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Well, ther's one comfort, -- shoo's gein me a shillin.
Yorkshire Tales. Third Series Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect John Hartley 1877
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Yo'd hardly think 'at Dorothy wod have agreed to become Dolly Drake, but shoo did, an th' naybors wor as gooid as ther word, an when we gate wed we sat daan to as grand a dinner as ivver yo'd wish to see, an monny a little thing we have nah 'at wor gein to us then towards haasekeepin'.
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877
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"If my memory sarves me reightly, Mally, its abaght forty year sin aw tell'd thee at aw liked a boil'd egg for mi braikfast, an it seems tha's nivver forgetten it, for it seems to me at tha's nivver gein me owt else, an awm just abaat sick o'th seet on em."
Yorkshire Tales. Third Series Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect John Hartley 1877
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I hearkent -- but eh, sir! jist gie a keek oot at that door, an 'see gein there bena somebody there hearkin', for that Eppy -- I wudna lippen til her ae hair! she's as sly as an edder!
Donal Grant, by George MacDonald George MacDonald 1864
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Mu'tasem A'wad, an international and human rights lawyer for the Red Crescent said there was evidence of "a clear Israeli policy of targeting medical staff," in the incident, and added that it corresponded with attacks of medical personnel at the weekly anti wall protests gein Bil'in and Ni'lin.
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