Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An unknown plant, supposed to have wonderful medicinal virtues.
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The oldest tradition they possess refers to a time shortly after the overthrow of the Majapahit dynasty in Java, about the middle of the 15th century; but it has been supposed that there must have been Indian settlers here before the middle of the 1st century, by whom the present name, probably cognate with the Sanskrit _balin_, strong, was in all likelihood imposed.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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You cant talk over a fone till your able to sit down an make one out of an old cigar box an a piece of balin wire.
"Same old Bill, eh Mable!" Edward Streeter 1933
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"I can chop my wagon to pieces and be on the road again in twenty minutes, if I got plenty of balin 'wire."
The Fighting Shepherdess Caroline Lockhart 1916
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Then Chips gets into her an 'begins balin' out a mess o 'small reckonin's on the deck.
Traffics and Discoveries Rudyard Kipling 1900
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At around 15: 30 balin. blacknight.ie stopped responding to requests.
Irish Blogs 2010
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At around 15: 30 balin. blacknight.ie stopped responding to requests.
Irish Blogs 2010
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Cor. ringens, petalis exterioribus circa balin ventricoEam connexis.
Caroli a Linné species plantarum; exhibentes plantas rite cognitas ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas Willdenow, Karl Ludwig, 1765-1812. ed 1797
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Surculi conferti, vncialesy foquiJ vnciales, ad balin emarcidi, verfus fummitetcs laete virentesj. in adultioribus pufpurafcentes, rariaS finiplices, vtplurimuni ramoii et in plerisque pcr dichotomiajm diuifi, epicibus vncinntis.
Spicilegium florae Goettingensis: plantas inprimis cryptogamicas Hercyniae ... 1778
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Virtex & guli nuda, latcra capitis fquamata; corporis fqua - ms magns, laxa Lia.lat. ramulofa» refta, duplcx: prima, a nucht ad balin pinnz; dorfi; dorfo prapiiK | ua.
Descriptiones animalium, avium, amphibiorum, piscium, insectorum, vermium; 1775
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word verification: balin ...the drums in the deep...
Every School To Get Holocaust Specialist Patrick Vessey 2008
ruzuzu commented on the word balin
Sometimes the Century Dictionary can be so mysterious.
August 16, 2011
fbharjo commented on the word balin
more myth-story
&
and the 1876 version
August 17, 2011