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  • the word, and the party struck out at a bouncing trot... 1880, Thomas Spencer Baynes, The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and...
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  • colloquial) The retailer Marks & Spencer. [from 1960s] 1961, J. I. M. Stewart, The Man Who Won The Pools, W. W. Norton & Company, page 13: He’d thought of going...
    674 bytes (72 words) - 04:08, 28 September 2024
  • John Lee Mahin, Boom Town (motion picture), spoken by Jonathan Sand (Spencer Tracy): You know, Karen, I may not look much like a lady's man, but many...
    3 KB (214 words) - 13:01, 27 September 2024
  • States that is away from major metropolitan areas. 2020 August 10, Jim Spencer, “Minnesota exports drop 17% because of the coronavirus”, in Minneapolis...
    849 bytes (94 words) - 02:57, 19 August 2024
  • 1901, Jacob Ellsworth Reighard, Herbert Spencer Jennings, Anatomy of the cat (2nd edition), H. Holt and Company, page 147: The tendon of the xiphihumeralis...
    908 bytes (101 words) - 02:18, 20 August 2023
  • →ISSN, →OCLC, page 71: Film-making seems to run in the family. Charlie Spencer Chaplin and my great-grandmother were siblings, and my grandad used to...
    1 KB (163 words) - 23:23, 17 October 2024
  • most unascertained) Not ascertained; undetermined; unknown. 1862, Herbert Spencer, “Religion and Science”, in First Principles, London: Williams and Norgate...
    2 KB (168 words) - 22:32, 18 August 2024
  • most coolly) (obsolete) coolish; somewhat cool in temperature 1595, Ed. Spencer [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “Colin Clouts Come Home Againe”, in Colin Clouts...
    2 KB (212 words) - 19:07, 11 August 2024
  • incorrectly, such as in the wrong place. 1991, Spencer Nissen, Port of Oakland and Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company: Environmental Protection Agency Initial...
    1 KB (140 words) - 01:23, 19 August 2024
  • The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC: ‘Holden!’ Mrs Spencer said. ‘How lovely to see you! Come in, dear! Are you frozen...
    2 KB (195 words) - 22:41, 21 May 2024
  • Herbert Spencer, Social Statics; Or, the Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, and the First of Them Developed, D. Appleton and company, page...
    3 KB (305 words) - 04:36, 28 September 2024
  • amusing and laughtersome publication. 1909, Walter Sydney Sichel, Georgiana Spencer Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire, Sheridan: There also is mad Becky Wells...
    1 KB (138 words) - 13:50, 12 May 2023
  • holder of the Care Bears master toy license — placed Care Bears plushes in Spencer Gifts last year, tweens and teenage girls bought the toys. 2008, Lionel...
    4 KB (420 words) - 06:26, 5 October 2024
  • claim to locate (the land granted by) a land warrant 1862-1892, Herbert Spencer, System of Synthetic Philosophy That part of the body in which the sense...
    5 KB (477 words) - 11:09, 2 June 2024
  • semiprime, square-free and unprimeable number. 2015 November 1, Adam Spencer, Adam Spencer's World of Numbers, Xoum Publishing, page 200: 200 is the smallest...
    2 KB (209 words) - 22:58, 7 August 2020
  • portion--passes from the intestines, and is thus got rid of. 1903, Herbert Spencer, Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects‎[2]: In a cow, subsisting on...
    1 KB (165 words) - 22:41, 18 August 2024
  • Herbert Spencer, “Progress: Its Law and Cause”, in Illustrations of Universal Progress: A Series of Discussions, New York: D. Appleton and Company, page...
    3 KB (288 words) - 05:27, 19 August 2024
  • (obsolete) Harmony of sounds; concert, as of musical instruments. 1595, Ed. Spencer [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “Astrophel. A Pastoral Elegie vpon the Death of...
    11 KB (1,226 words) - 10:03, 27 September 2024
  • Spencer, “Chorus from the Iphigenia in Aulis of Euripides. Written at Harrow School, in the Year 1784.”, in Poems by the Late Hon. William R. Spencer; […]...
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  • Further Chronicles of Avonlea, Boston, Mass.: The Page Company, →OCLC, page 43: Rachel Spencer, have you taken leave of your senses? What do you mean...
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