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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A marsh.
Examples
“Quanta ergo cum reverentia, quanto timore, quanta illuc humilitate accedere debet, ` a palude sua procedens et repens ranuncula vilis?”
“Italians call _canna di palude_; smaller than _harundo_ (_Arundo donax_, the Greek [Greek: kanna] and Italian canna), it nevertheless often reaches a height of 6 or 7 feet '.”
“Gorgone, dicono quella esser un isola in mezzo d'una palude.”
“But in these passages, not only is the original word very loosely translated, but the original word itself was so loosely used that long ago Jerome had said it might mean any marsh plant, _quidquid in palude virens nascitur_.”
“Rondel [etii] _ says: Hec belua Anglis, (vt dixi) Hore vocatur, & alio nomine Horlepoole & VVirlepoole etiam, ni fallor, earu {m} nimiru {m} omnium significatione, quòd impetuo suo & flatu vorticosas in mari tanquam palude procellas excitet.”
“Cujus armis ad pontem Bothwelliensem, succubuit Scotus: necnon Sedgmoriensi palude fusi Rebellos.”
“Orus Grammaticus apud Etymologiet magni jluQorem ab adfita palude fic didam tradit.”
“` a palude sua procedens et repens ranuncula vilis?”
“siccare emulsa pingue palude solum, quod quondam caesis montis fodisse medullis”
“a Maeotide palude» quae eft vitimus receifus mediterranei maris, cuius aditus*Bofporus”
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