Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An old spelling of
spy .
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Examples
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This: spie. org/x37587. xml may explain the death of sunspots; but what explains the sluggish sun?
October 24th, 2009 m_francis 2009
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Additional information is available at spie.org/ebooks.
Professional Literature: e-Books Officially Launch as a Part of SPIE Digital Library « ResourceShelf 2010
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June 8, 2009 at 2:01 pm izzat a cheezburger ai spie?
CLUELESS - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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I stepped off the chopper, it returned for the third team, they hooked up to a spie rig -- a jungle-penetrating nylon cable -- then the chopper got turned around in the fog and clouds, crashed into a mountain and every Marine in the chopper and hanging on the rig was killed -- 16 in all, including the Battalian commander, Lt.Col. Leftwich.
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In it a brilliant, but crazy methmentician tries to “break” imaginary codes and detect the pressence of enemy spie cells by constructing these leborate sting models on bulletin boards.
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Thei haue also certeine spiefaultes ordinarilye appoincted (muche like to our Sompnours) that spie in euery shiere for suche as be necligent, and let slippe suche oraisons and seruice as thei be bounde to.
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They are not skylfull to fighte it oute at hande stripes, ne yeat in the maner of besieging or assaulting: but all together aftre the maner of skirmisshe as they spie their aduantage.
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Their children in their infancie, are not nourished vp at the libertie and will of the parentes: but certeine there are appointed to viewe the children: whiche yf thei spie vntowardnes in the infante, deformitie, or lacke of lymmes, commande it to be slayne.
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About the same time the Portingalles made great sute vnto the Gouernour, promising him many giftes to deny vs traffike, and to constraine vs to depart from thence, saying we were no marchantes, but that we came to spie the countrie, for they said that they had seene many Fleminges in Lisbone, but none like vs:
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And also, for the same cause and purpose, his father in his dayes had sent a Iewe physician into Rhode as a spie, to haue the better knowledge of it: the sayd Solyman was informed that he was there yet, wherefore he sent him worde that he should abide there still for the same cause.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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