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from The Century Dictionary.

  • To thrive.

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Examples

  • In a better world, it strikes me, we'd be busy chattering about communication lapses with Martian water extraction complexes, the competing progress of different nation exploration teams pressing toward the North Pole of Venus, rumors about wild catter miners in the Asteroid Belt, comparison of tourist accommodations at various Lunar hotels, and the like.

    Apollo Anniversary Event at The Kennedy Center - NASA Watch 2009

  • His mother, the daughter of a successful Texas oil wild-catter, has been living in the same co-op apartment now appraised in the range of $4 million for decades.

    John McCain, too rich to be President. Ann Althouse 2008

  • LINKLETTER: And a real wild catter in Texas is the kind of a guy that would come to you and say, look, Art, I got a sure thing.

    CNN Transcript Jul 26, 2002 2002

  • LINKLETTER: And a real wild catter in Texas is the kind of a guy that would come to you and say, look, Art, I got a sure thing.

    CNN Transcript Aug 25, 2002 2002

  • They had climbed the steep bank now and started across the pasture in what Tom called "a catter-cornering" direction, meaning to come out upon the main road to Osago Lake within sight of the Red Mill, which was the property of Mr. Jabez Potter, Ruth's uncle.

    Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods Alice B. Emerson

  • Page 55 jes 'er singin' fer dear life, never dreamin ''bout nothin' happ'nin ', when heah cum: Hester Whitfiel' - coming catter-corner 'cross from de Luther side er de house, wid her han 'h'isted up in de aar, en I' clar fo 'de Lawd, she hit me er clip rite in my lef' eye, en mos 'busted it clean outen my haid.

    Old times in Dixie land : a southern matron's memories, 1901

  • It is dotted with guest houses and budget hotels to catter for ever increasing inflow of tourists.

    TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010

  • [S] catter his people of about 100,000 through the nations of the world as rising sea levels swallow up their native island.

    FP Passport 2009

  • Suite C For all ya fav artists music from street military to lil wayne we catter to all pay us a visit today! mdonios Watchn da Military Channel gettn ready for Six Flags. crystal_st_john gooood morning tweeples!

    Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 Larry Margasak 2009

  • I found the way from hence so dangerous and troublesome, that with my pen I am not able to note it vnto you: no man trauelleth from hence thither, but such poore people as need constraineth to buy Rice for their reliefe to liue vpon, and they lay not aboue twentie batmans vpon a catter, and it lieth no lower then the skirts of the saddle, and he escapeth very hardly that commeth there with the same.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

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