Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Furnished with foramina; cribrate; ethmoid.
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Examples
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Salmigondinois, who shall not, for a day or two at least before, be permitted to culbut and foraminate onocrotalwise, that there remain not in all his vessels to write a Greek Y.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Salmigondinois, who shall not, for a day or two at least before, be permitted to culbut and foraminate onocrotalwise, that there remain not in all his vessels to write a Greek Y.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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He was to be commended; therefore do I promise, that from henceforth no malefactor shall by justice be executed within my jurisdiction of Salmigondinois, who shall not, for a day or two at least before, be permitted to culbut and foraminate onocrotalwise, that there remain not in all his vessels to write
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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ROBERTSON: Listen to the instructor as he shares one of the many steps in the complicated manufacture of mercury foraminate, one component in the detonators: "Let me mention that this nitric is locally made.
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