Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The tacamahac, or balsampoplar, Populus balsamifera, of northern North America.
- Gray or dapplegray: applied to a horse.
- Gray: applied generally.
- noun A dapple-gray horse.
- noun The color gray or dapple-gray.
- noun A small coin formerly current in France, from the fifteenth century, “worth three deniers, or the fourth part of a sol.”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A French copper coin of one fourth the value of a sou.
- adjective obsolete Gray.
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Examples
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Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, and Demi – Liard, alias Deux – Milliards, who had been inconsistently condemned, after a hearing of both sides of the case, to ten years in the galleys.
Les Miserables 2008
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It includes three major lakes (Great Slave, Great Bear and Athabasca) and numerous major rivers (such as the Peace, Athabasca, Liard, Hay, Peel, South Nahanni and Slave rivers).
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Some 100 Nahanni Denes following a traditional way of life live at Nahanni Butte at the junction of the South Nahanni and Liard rivers at the southern end of the Park.
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Mosses of the Nahanni and Liard river area, southwestern Northwest Territories, Canada.
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The inspector muttered: — “The long-haired man must be Brujon, and the bearded one Demi – Liard, alias Deux – Milliards.”
Les Miserables 2008
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As with the origins and ancestors of the upper Klamath River redband, the Peace and Liard rainbows could have come from coastal or interior sources, or perhaps both.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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Inland rainbow trout are native to upper sections of the Peace River and Liard River drainages of the Mackenzie River basin, in British Columbia.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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Inland rainbow trout are native to upper sections of the Peace River and Liard River drainages of the Mackenzie River basin, in British Columbia.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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Inland rainbow trout are native to upper sections of the Peace River and Liard River drainages of the Mackenzie River basin, in British Columbia.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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As with the origins and ancestors of the upper Klamath River redband, the Peace and Liard rainbows could have come from coastal or interior sources, or perhaps both.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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