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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A fracture of the skull marked by a narrow crack without separation or displacement of the bones.

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Examples

  • Patton's recording may be found on the late John Fahey's magnificent com pilation 'American Primitive Vol 1: Raw Pre-War Gospel' Revenant 206.

    Oh Death (3) 1970

  • The first of four tendencies or occasions lay in the continuing efforts at exegesis of Genesis and the com - pilation of works entitled Hexaemeron or On the Six

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas CHARLES TRINKAUS 1968

  • Theslide area com s pilation of m y work ove thepast four ye r ars.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • Theslide area com s pilation of m y work ove thepast four ye r ars.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • In the preface, is given, what may be confidercd as an entertaining hiiloricsl dcicripiion, or rcviciv, of Domefd ay-book, the nature of its contents, with the various opinions as to the motives of its com* pilation; and, in the inrroduftion, we have fifch a brief (ketch of our Saxon hiftory, as appeared nci-eflary to lead the reader hillori - cally to this grand forvey.

    The Monthly Review 1791

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