Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An element in compound words of Greek origin, meaning wind.
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Examples
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During the absence of the party I had been busy erecting a stand for the anemo-biagraph.
The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Douglas Mawson 1920
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"Yet," replied the voice, "all this does not hinder the change of character according as the stomach does its work ill or well; slander, anger, envy are accumulated bile, or faulty digestion; good temper, joy, come from a free circulation of blood, the expansion of the body at will; mystics are anemo-nervous people; your ecstatics are hysterical patients badly-fed, madhouses are full of them; they depend on science when visions begin."
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a position too sheltered for my purpose, so I built a place for the anemo-biagraph behind a low rock well out on the isthmus.
The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Douglas Mawson 1920
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