Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as asar, pl. of as, os.
  • Same as os. A ridge of glacial debris of considerable longitudinal extent, showing rough water-stratification: same as eskar. Also called serpent-kame.

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

  • noun plural (Geol.) See 3d os.

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  • noun An esker.

Etymologies

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Swedish.

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Examples

  • In this way there arise at places where the _cabook_ stratum has again been broken up and washed away by currents of water, formations which are so bewilderingly like the ridges (_osar_) and hills with erratic blocks in Sweden and Finland that I was astonished when I saw them.

    The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866

  • Para infamar a mujeres They've glib tongues for defaming women tienen lengua, y tienen manos and they have ready hands para osar a los ancianos for challenging some old man

    Don Juan Tenorio Jos�� Zorrilla 1855

  • So much drama and hype is going around, is like we are talking about the best book ever written, and a great movie / osar worthy LMAO

    Entertainment Weekly's Hollywood Insider 2009

  • y más me duele el no osar deciros que he llegado por vos a tal estado; que viéndome do estoy y en lo que he andado por el camino estrecho de seguiros, si me quiero tornar para hüiros, desmayo, viendo atrás lo que he dejado;

    veruscio Diary Entry veruscio 2009

  • (_osar_) with sides partly clothed with wood, partly sandy slopes of

    The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866

  • _cabook_ of Ceylon would certainly yield very unexpected contributions to an explanation of the way in which the sand and rolled-stone _osar_ of Scandinavia have first arisen.

    The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866

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