polony

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The bill of fare included cold black-pudding, slices of polony, a piece of salt pork, some gherkins, and some goose-fat.

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  1. A kind of high-dried sausage made of partly cooked pork. They were addicted to polonies; they did not disguise their love for Banbury cakes; they made bets in gingerbeer. Thackeray, Newcomes, xviii.

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  • Buy less tinned meat, polony and other cold meats and sausage.
  • (ACT), Mauve, CoreGenes, and GeneOrder. aaarchaeansf aarchaeansf aatol alignment alignmentwabi assembly biodiversity coalescent cog coregenomehypothesis dna-replication evolution geneconversion genomeannotation genomecomparison genomeevolution genomerearrangement genomesequencing hmm horizontaltransfer hpc inversions mcmc metagenomics microbialevolution motifdetection mrbayes noncoding-rna nsfprop optical-map orthology phylogenetics polony populationgenetics positiveselection randomwalks recombination repeats sequence speciation speciestree statisticalalignment virus visualization wabi yersinia CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Contact: miklos@stats. ox.ac.uk aaanew aaarchaeansf aarchaeansf aatol alignment alignmentwabi assembly biodiversity coalescent cog coregenomehypothesis dna-replication evolution geneconversion genomeannotation genomecomparison genomeevolution genomerearrangement genomesequencing hmm horizontaltransfer hpc inversions mcmc metagenomics microbialevolution motifdetection mrbayes noncoding-rna nsfprop optical-map orthology phylogenetics polony populationgenetics positiveselection randomwalks recombination repeats sequence speciation speciestree statisticalalignment virus visualization wabi yersinia CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • The bill of fare included cold black-pudding, slices of polony, a piece of salt pork, some gherkins, and some goose-fat. —  The Fat and the Thin
  • I ain't 'ad a bite since yesterday -- an' 't wa'n't nothin 'but a slice o' polony sossidge I found on a dust-'eap. —  The Dawn of a To-morrow
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  1. Prob. corrupted from Bologna (sausage).
 

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