Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An odoriferous substance procured from the rasse.

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Examples

  • Perhaps in the future providing a salary to Alevi "dedes," Alevi religious leaders, could be possible.

    Hurriyet Dailynews 2010

  • I most humbelly beseche your Honner to be good and kinde and fethful to my deerest younge lady, now you have her; or I shall brake my harte for having done some dedes that have helped to bringe things to this passe.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • The problem I'm having with doing my tax law assignment is that I don't get a litte 'Dededede, de de, dedede'FF battle won noise... in case my dedes weren't good enough every time I beat any problem, no matter how small.

    A Link To The Past Greg Tannahill 2006

  • For thei knoulechen wel, that the werkes of Jesu Crist ben gode, and his wordes and his dedes and his doctryne by his Gospelles, weren trewe and his meracles also trewe; and the blessed Virgine Marie is good, and holy mayden, before and aftre the birthe of Jesu Crist; and that alle tho, that beleven perfitely in God, schul ben saved.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • And so dide thei before him, that weren his auncestres; and so schulle thei that comen aftre him, with outen doynge of ony dedes of armes: but lyven evere more thus in ese, as a swyn, that is fedde in sty, for to ben made fatte.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • God forzeve me my synnes, I make hem parteneres, and graunte hem part of alle the gode pilgrymages and of alle the gode dedes, that

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Wherfore it semethe wel, that God lovethe hem and is plesed with hire creance, for hire gode dedes.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • For thei knoulechen wel, that the werkes of Jesu Crist ben gode, and his wordes and his dedes and his doctryne by his Gospelles, weren trewe and his meracles also trewe; and the blessed Virgine Marie is good, and holy mayden, before and aftre the birthe of Jesu Crist; and that alle tho, that beleven perfitely in God, schul ben saved.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • And so dide thei before him, that weren his auncestres; and so schulle thei that comen aftre him, with outen doynge of ony dedes of armes: but lyven evere more thus in ese, as a swyn, that is fedde in sty, for to ben made fatte.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • And alle tho that seyn for me a _Pater nostre_, with an _Ave Maria_, that God forzeve me my synnes, I make hem parteneres, and graunte hem part of alle the gode pilgrymages and of alle the gode dedes, that I have don, zif ony be to his plesance: and noghte only of tho, but of alle that evere I schalle do unto my lyfes ende.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

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