Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A liana.
- noun Same as
quarry-water .
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Examples
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Adelaide or northern natives, the father taking the name of the child with the affix of imbe or nimbe (implying father), as Kartul,
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The children swarm about us, their directionless motions and fluttering long white hair mimicking the imbe-cilic liquid world of fish under the sea.
Shampoo Planet Coupland, Douglas 1992
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What an imbe.; iie I am - why, it leapt to the eye?
Hercule Poirot's Casebook Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976 1984
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But no one can consent to seem a dupe or an imbe-cile: now, putting personality entirely aside, what can there be in common between socialism, that universal protest, and the hotch-potch of old prejudices which make up M. Blanc's republic?
System of Economical Contradictions: or, the Philosophy of Misery 1888
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This is occasionally changed after marriage and the birth of a child; as among the Adelaide or northern natives, the father taking the name of the child with the affix of imbe or nimbe
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This is occasionally changed after marriage and the birth of a child; as among the Adelaide or northern natives, the father taking the name of the child with the affix of imbe or nimbe
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It will be spinning out to an infinite ex - tent an already disastrous, disgraceful, and imbe - cile war.
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i falmalinnar imbe met, ar hísië untúpa Calaciryo míri oiale.
Númenna - Nan Annûn Elemmaciltur 2008
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