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Identifier: centurydictionary01whit
Title: The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world ..
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Whitney, William Dwight, 1827-1894 Smith, Benjamin E. (Benjamin Eli), 1857-1913
Subjects: English language Atlases Biography Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : The Century Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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llable, but, prop,written as a suffix, being prob. a relic of theME. iuflexive -e, which in poetry was pro-nounced (p. (/., ME. ,<til-e, mil-e: see quot.)whenever the meter required it, long after ithad ceased to be prouomiced in prose.] Anunmeaning syllable, used in old ballads andsongs to fill out a line. Jog on, jog <ui, the footjiath wuy,And merrily hent the stile-H ; A merry heart goes all the <lay,Vour sad tires in a mile-n. Quoted 1)11 Shak., W. T., iv. 2. aam (am), n. [< D. aam, a liqiud measure,= G. iihm, also ohm (see oh)H), = leel. dma,<ML. ania, a tub, tierce, < L. haiiia, «mo,< Gr.a/tii, a water-bucket, pail.] A measure ofliqiuds used, especially for wine and oil,in Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Livonia,Esthonia, Denmark, and Sweden; a fierce.Its value differs in different localities : thus, in Amsterdaman aam of \vine = 41 gallons, and an aam of oil = 373 gal-lons; while in Brunswick an aam of oil = 394 gallons.Also written auin, aume, awui, ateme.
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WftU Aardvark t,Orycterofins capensis). aardvark (ardviirk), n. [D., < aarde, = E.earth, + vnrk, used only in dim. form varkeii,a pig, = E./nci-oHl and E. jiwcJ, q. v.] Theground-hog or eartb-pig of South Africa. SeeOrycteropiis.