Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A tall, stout, and exceedingly productive grass, Tripsacum dactyloides, cultivated in Mexico and elsewhere in southern North America, in the West Indies, and to some extent in Europe.
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San Juan, a rarer occurrence than a strong man's death, the littlest of the bells upon the western arch laughs while it calls to all to hearken; when a man is killed, the angry-toned bell pendant from the eastern arch shouts out the word to go billowing across the stretches of sage and greasewood and gama-grass; if one of the later-day frame buildings bursts into flame, Ignacio Chavez warns the town with a strident clamor, tugging frantically; be it wedding or discovery of gold or returns from the county elections, the bell-ringer cunningly makes the bells talk.
The Bells of San Juan Jackson Gregory 1912
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