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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A genus of taxodont paleoconch pelecypods, found in the Devonian rocks.

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  • “Mr. Croker censures the poet for applying the word puella to a lady in”

    Famous Reviews

  • “In the picture you can see a couple of long and narrow Bulgarica shells near the center and a couple of white Albinaria puella to the right.”

    It was 5 years ago today

  • “The fine distinction between demittere and dejicere caput are worthy of a glossary, while Pathica puella, puera, putus, pullipremo pusio, pygiaca sacra, quadrupes, scarabæus and smerdalius explain themselves.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

  • “You can see 2 clausiliids, Albinaria puella and Bulgarica denticulata, Cantareus aspersus, Metafruticicola redtenbacheri and the flat Lindholmiola lens.”

    I am finally working on the material from that survey

  • “A virgin, as the poet holds, lasciva et petulans puella virgo, is like a flower, a rose withered on a sudden.”

    Anatomy of Melancholy

  • “Luctui dies indicebatur cum liberi nascantur, cum frater abit, amicus ab hospite captivus domum redeat, puella desponsetur.”

    Anatomy of Melancholy

  • “Interdiu oculi, et aures occupatae distrahunt animum, at noctu solus jactor, ad auroram somnus paulum misertus, nec tamen ex animo puella abiit, sed omnia mihi de Leucippe somnia erant.”

    Anatomy of Melancholy

  • “And Baldus the lawyer scoffs on, quum scholaris, inquit, loquitur cum puella, non praesumitur ei dicere, Pater noster, when a scholar talks with a maid, or another man's wife in private, it is presumed he saith not a pater noster.”

    Anatomy of Melancholy

  • “Note 62: Molinier, 130 (Astrucus): "si inveniretur puer vel puella, occideretur"; 131 (Frossetus): "fuit acordatum quod interficeretur unus puer.”

    A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries

  • “Note 107: Molinier, 133: "Item dixit quod multum refrenatur dolor et tristitia cordis ipsius, propter miracula que Deus facit pro ipsa puella." back”

    A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries

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