hirundine

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Were the stragglers which I had for some time been watching, flying high, but well within easy ken, and these dense, hardly discernible clusters -- hirundine nebulæ, as it were -- were all these but parts of one innumerable host, the main body of which was passing far above me altogether unseen?

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  1. Of or pertaining to the swallow; swallow-like; specifically, pertaining to the Hirundinidæ. Activity almost super-hirundine. Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, ii. 2.
  2. A swallow; one of the Hirundinidæ.

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  • Were the stragglers which I had for some time been watching, flying high, but well within easy ken, and these dense, hardly discernible clusters -- hirundine nebulæ, as it were -- were all these but parts of one innumerable host, the main body of which was passing far above me altogether unseen? —  The Foot-path Way
 

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  1. from Latin hirundineus, of the swallow, from hirundo, a swallow: see Hirundo.
 

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