Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Out of which.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb rare Out of which.
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- conjunction Out of which.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Bedrihonem, in which place (as is aforesayd) grow those little shrubbes whereout Balme issueth.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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They found likewise Corall on this land, and many trees which we call Palmitos, whereout droppeth wine as out of the Coco-tree: which wine being kept hath his operation as our new prest wine, but after some time it commeth vnto the ful vertue and perfection.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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A crescent enclosure had been roped in front whereout the tophats poked; birettas, a red among the black, peaked cowls of mendicants; ferny feathery whiskery toques.
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
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A crescent enclosure had been roped in front whereout the tophats poked; birettas, a red among the black, peaked cowls of mendicants; ferny feathery whiskery toques.
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
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"I would not grudge to see a retch of blood and gore in the mouth whereout that was said; for, were the bull not given [LL. fo.55a.] willingly, yet should he be taken by force!"
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Round about fast by the walles of the Orchyard there were set conuenyent garden pots in the which in stead of growing plantes, euerie one was of pure glasse, exceeding a mans imagination or beleefe, intorpiaried [A] boxe the rootes and stalkes of golde, whereout the other proceeded.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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And in the cemetery of its church is a sarcophagus of hollowed stone, whereout a spring continually exudeth, nay, sufficiently floweth forth; the which is sweet to the draught, wholesome to the taste, and healeth divers infirmities, but chiefly the stings of serpents and the deadliness of poison: for whoso drinketh thereof, either receiveth instant health, or instantly he dieth.
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In the midst of the valley cometh down a riveret, rill, or brook of fresh water, which hard by the seaside maketh a pond or pool, whereout our ships were watered with very great ease and pleasure.
Summarie and true discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian voyage Walter Bigges
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In Syria Phenices, which bordereth upon Jewry, and near to the foot of Mount Carmel, there is a moor or marsh whereout riseth a brook called sometime
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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Next he put round his head his crested war-helm of battle and fight and combat, [5] wherein were four carbuncle-gems on each point and each end to adorn it, [5] whereout was uttered the cry of an hundred young warriors with the long-drawn wail from each of its angles and corners.
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