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  • Bract A small leaf-like organ or modified leaf, especially one with a flower or inflorescence growing from its axil.

    Chapter 9 1999

  • As to bailiffs, see Bract. 26 b, "Reestituat domino, vel servienti," etc.

    The Common Law Oliver Wendell Holmes 1888

  • 'Est aliud genus crirninis quod sub nomine falsi continetur, et tangit coronam domini regis, et nlfimum indncit supplicium, sicut de illis qui falsam fabricant monetasn, et qui de re non reproba, faciunt reprobam; sicut sunt retonsores deriarinruno' Bract.

    Memoir Correspondence And Miscellanies Jefferson, Thomas 1829

  • 'Est aliud genus crirninis quod sub nomine falsi continetur, et tangit coronam domini regis, et nlfimum indncit supplicium, sicut de illis qui falsam fabricant monetasn, et qui de re non reproba, faciunt reprobam; sicut sunt retonsores deriarinruno' Bract.

    Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1 Thomas Jefferson 1784

  • 242/4 Bract., fol. 150 b, 151; supra, p. 168; Y.B. 22 Ed.I. 466-468.

    The Common Law Oliver Wendell Holmes 1888

  • Systems biology, where ID encourages biologists to look at various biological systems as integrated components of larger systems that are designed to work together in a top-down, coordinated fashion, which is what biologists are finding is the case (Lönnig, 2004; Bract

    Evolution News & Views 2009

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