Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of gastropodous mollusks having a fusiform shell with a canaliculated base, an elongated spire, a smooth columella, and the lip not slit.
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Examples
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Sola digna tu fuisti ferre saeculi pretium, atque portum praeparare nauta mundo naufrago, quem sacer cruor perunxit, fusus Agni corpore.
Sing, my tongue bls 2009
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Sola digna tu fuisti ferre saeculi pretium, atque portum praeparare nauta mundo naufrago, quem sacer cruor perunxit, fusus Agni corpore.
Archive 2009-04-01 bls 2009
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Sola digna tu fuisti ferre saeculi pretium, atque portum praeparare nauta mundo naufrago, quem sacer cruor perunxit, fusus Agni corpore.
Archive 2008-09-01 bls 2008
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Sola digna tu fuisti ferre saeculi pretium, atque portum praeparare nauta mundo naufrago, quem sacer cruor perunxit, fusus Agni corpore.
September 14: the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross bls 2008
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Maledicat os illum Spiritus Sanctus qui in baptismo ef - os fusus est.
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Maledicat os illum Spiritus Sanctus qui in baptismo ef-os fusus est.
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Peregrinas inuehit merces Ciuitatis finibus Tamesis fluuius famosus, qui citra vrbem ad 80. milliaria fonticulo fusus, vltra plus 70. nomen profert. 87
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Synonym: _Peridinium fusus_ Ehr. The animal is very elongate, due to the presence of two long horns at the extremities of the body.
Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 1906
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Christi corpore, Spiritus Sanctus in nobis operatur; qui nos verae fidei alls evehit ultra omnia corporea et terrena, aut quae oculis cerni possint; nobisque proponit epulandum verum corpus Christi, quod semel pro nobis fractum est, et verum sanguinem qui pro nobis fusus est; illud inquam corpus, quod pro nobis in coelis ante Patrem nunc apparet.
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It would pass for fusus if the pillar lip was not examined just within the aperture, the plaits reaching only to its edge, but they are strong and well developed through its entire length.
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