Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A scab or scurf.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete See
royne . - noun obsolete A scab; a scurf, or scurfy spot.
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- noun obsolete A
scab ; ascurf , orscurfy spot.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Every liberal art was extin - guished, and the manners went to roin Paetus Thrasea, for whose panegyric Arulenns Rusticus suffered death, was a na - tive of Padua.
The Works of Cornelius Tacitus Cornelius Tacitus , Arthur Murphy 1812
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When they run about wild in the fields and woods they may be fhot as other:; arne; but the tame roin-dccr are always private property, and It-cured in the pollini on of th; i. r twiKis: indeed, in the number r. f thcfe creatures the Laplander's wclth is fjf poled to confill, and not in the extent of territory, or the quantity of gold.
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| roin which It may eauiy be cxpellcdf by either the mirooa, marine.
The Monthly Review 1776
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t brinmc, ainm an roin bhig bhios a mpd na naoidhean a mbroin a mhathar. tSrogbaU fgiurfa.
Archaeologia Britannica,: Giving Some Account Additional to what Has Been ... 1707
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The sysiem must iherelore be armed with some means of roin | H'i! inL, Mhe obedience of the parties; and tlie simple mode, in which it ellccts this, is by inll-cting dtfeat as the penalty of disobedience, Tlie party who is tem |) ted to swerve may therefore as well obey.
Essays on professional education Edgeworth, Richard Lovells, 1744-1817 1812
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At equal didaiices, balls impelled (roin guna of the common length diverge much Itfs than balK of ths fame weight and diameter impelled from Ihorter gum with the fame charge.
A Treatise on Gun-powder ; A Treatise on Fire-arms ; and A Treatise on the Service of Artillery ... 1789
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To guard against the possibility of any typographical errors, Mr. Traslc corrected the proof-sheets, not (roin tlie copy, but fi'oni the original record.
Suffolk deeds 1653
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