Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The typical genus of the subfamily Melinæ, family Mustelidæ.
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- noun in some classifications: type genus of the subfamily Melinae
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Examples
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On both sides the stock was good, Roscoe straight descended from the New England Puritans, Martha no less straight descended from the royal chief-stocks of Hawaii whose genealogies were chanted in meles a thousand years before written speech was acquired.
ON THE MAKALOA MAT 2010
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On both sides the stock was good, Roscoe straight descended from the New England Puritans, Martha no less straight descended from the royal chief-stocks of Hawaii whose genealogies were chanted in meles a thousand years before written speech was acquired.
ON THE MAKALOA MAT 1993
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On both sides the stock was good, Roscoe straight descended from the New England Puritans, Martha no less straight descended from the royal chief-stocks of Hawaii whose genealogies were chanted in meles a thousand years before written speech was acquired.
On the Makaloa Mat 1919
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The language of the meles is a dialect now unused, and unintelligible even to most of the people.
Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands Charles Nordhoff 1865
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What about the Latin "meles", the word for badger?
My sweet honey bee 2010
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And the nights, the perfumed nights, the chanting of the meles and the dancing of the hulas, and the big
ON THE MAKALOA MAT 2010
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And everywhere the people turning out, in their hands gifts of flowers, and fruit, and fish, and pig, in their hearts love and song, their heads bowed in obeisance to the royal ones while their lips ejaculated exclamations of amazement or chanted meles of old and unforgotten days.
ON THE MAKALOA MAT 2010
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Ahuna, sepulchrally muttering prayers and meles, moved about, lighting various whale-oil lamp-calabashes.
SHIN-BONES 2010
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Now that American society has rejected Christian sexual ethics, is it any wonder that the natural polygamous tendencies of men is being atct out more, at least for those alpha meles that can attract multiple females?
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In other words, once you get away with the heist, follow the wisdom of the Amharic saying "Ye leba ayne derek meles o leb adrik."
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