Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Suet; the internal fat of the abdomen of the sheep (Ovis aries), purified by melting and straining. It is used in the preparation of ointments, etc.
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Examples
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Sign on 'em in window: ` Ef you wish to be bes'-dress 'man in town take me home fer six dolluhs ninety-sevum cents.'
Seventeen 1915
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They's a secon'-han 'sto' ovuh on the avynoo, where they got swaller-tail suits all way f'um sevum dolluhs to nineteem dolluhs an 'ninety-eight cents.
Seventeen 1915
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"A secon'-han 'sto' ovuh on the avynoo, where they got swaller-tail suits all way f'um sevum dolluhs to nineteem dolluhs an 'ninety-eight cents."
Seventeen 1915
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They's a secon'-han 'sto' ovuh on the avynoo, where they got swallertail suits all way f'um sevum dolluhs to nineteem dolluhs an 'ninety-eight cents.
Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William Booth Tarkington 1907
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Sign on 'em in window: 'Ef you wish to be bes'-dress' man in town take me home fer six dolluhs ninety-sevum cents. '
Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William Booth Tarkington 1907
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"A secon'-han 'sto' ovuh on the avynoo, where they got swaller-tail suits all way f'um sevum dolluhs to nineteem dolluhs an 'ninety-eight cents."
Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William Booth Tarkington 1907
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Bifttonicum ftridcs, quid enim? omnia non licet uni Non fperaffe uni licet omnia, mi Talis ainpla Merges, 8c mihi grande decus (iim ignotus in sevum Tumr licet, externo penitufque inglorius orbi)
The Works of the English Poets.: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical 1779
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t, Nec verbqm eft perpeflum a mortCt fed lianc aboievit., iHaec te Gregorii monumenta fequanttir amica tiForte feqiens laudare queas mea di£ia pet sevum.
Analysis operum S.S. patrum et scriptorum ecclesiasticorum 1790
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y, In omne fit tibi sevum gratia, & ia laecuiQ - rum fdecula.
Analysis operum S.S. patrum et scriptorum ecclesiasticorum 1790
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