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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Bot.) A small scrubby tree (
Balanites Ægyptiaca ) growing in dry regions of tropical Africa and Asia.
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Examples
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Yanub: Thanks, I did want to put up something to show people a bito f what my doctors and workers see and yeah, I am a little in shock that they seem to want to work with me instead of over my body.
The narration of disabily: when the story goes on without us Elizabeth McClung 2008
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It occurred to me that it might be an odd anglicization of some Japanese word based on hito 'person' which can become -bito in compounds, but I haven't found such a word in my Japanese dictionaries.
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I says to pris'ner, "You bito [2] an 'give an account of yerself," says I.
The Story of Sonny Sahib Sara Jeannette Duncan
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"My bantam," said the big man, admiringly, "faith, but that was a tidy bito 'footwork ye done down at Sunkhaze."
The Rainy Day Railroad War Holman Day 1900
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By Atogi's advice a still abler scholar, Wani (Wang-in), was subsequently invited from Kudara to take Atogi's place, and it is added that the latter received the title of fumi-bito (scribe), which he transmitted to his descendants in Japan.
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886
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Bidatsu sought an interpretation of a memorial presented by the Koma sovereign, only one man among all the scribes (fumi-bito), and he
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886
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The social positions of the two groups were even more rigidly differentiated; those of the fifth rank and upwards being termed tenjo-bito, or men having the privilege of entree to the palace and to the Imperial presence; while the lower group (from the sixth downwards) had no such privilege and were consequently termed chige-bito, or groundlings.
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886
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His belated admission to the ranks of the tenjo-bito provoked some derision and he was commonly spoken of as Gen-sammi (the Minamoto third rank).
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886
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Fifteen of his family were of, or above, the third rank, and thirty were tenjo-bito.
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886
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It is well supplied with food and good water, of which there are many springs, called _bito_.
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