Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In glass-blowing, a jaw-tool for pinching in the neck of a bottle, or giving to it some peculiar shape, as it is revolved on the extremity of the pontil. Also called
pucellas .
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Examples
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Fatendum est cacumine Olympi constitutus supra ventos et procellas, et omnes res humanas.
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Unde omnis femina procellas sanguinis in se habet.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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In terris purum illum aetherem non invenies, et ventos serenos; nimbos potius, procellas, calumnias.
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Vere novo casus atrox diras procellas animo immisit: toto corpore, tota mente tumultuatur.
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Sed Dei auxilio vndis maris illis ex aduerso tumescentibus ac reluctantibus, Buza autem regis facili, et agili cursu inter procellas labente, ac volitante, in portu Iopp� delusis hostibus subit� affuit, sex ex Saracenis in arcu suo in nauicula percussis, ac vulneratis.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Qui enim, inter has rerum procellas, vel Tibi vel Academiae defuerit, illum virtuti et literis, sibique et posteris, defuturum existimo.
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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Rondel [etii] _ says: Hec belua Anglis, (vt dixi) Hore vocatur, & alio nomine Horlepoole & VVirlepoole etiam, ni fallor, earu {m} nimiru {m} omnium significatione, quòd impetuo suo & flatu vorticosas in mari tanquam palude procellas excitet.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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"_Alios jam vidi ego ventos, aliasque procellas_," he would say.
The Poor Plutocrats M��r J��kai 1864
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Sed Dei auxilio vndis maris illis ex aduerso tumescentibus ac reluctantibus, Buza autem regis facili, et agili cursu inter procellas labente, ac volitante, in portu Ioppæ delusis hostibus subitò affuit, sex ex Saracenis in arcu suo in nauicula percussis, ac vulneratis.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Aut magis inter fe disjundum, difcrepicanfquey QuamMortalequodefty Immortali, atquepe - renni gof Jundum, in concilio & vas tolerare procellas?
T. Lucretii Cari De rerum natura libri sex Titus Lucretius Carus , Thomas Creech , George Gordon Byron Byron 1770
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