Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Obsolete forms of
hyena .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A hyena.
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- noun obsolete A
hyena .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I will be more jealous of thee than a Barbary cock-pigeon over his hen, more clamorous than a parrot against rain, more new-fangled than an ape, more giddy in my desires than a monkey: I will weep for nothing, like Diana in the fountain, and I will do that when you are disposed to be merry; I will laugh like a hyen, and that when thou art inclined to sleep.
As You Like It 2004
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I will be more jealous of thee than a Barbary cock-pigeon over his hen; more clamorous than a parrot against rain; more newfangled than an ape; more giddy in my desires than a monkey: I will weep for nothing, like Diana in the fountain, and I will do that when you are disposed to be merry; I will laugh like a hyen, and that when thou art inclined to sleep.
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'I will laugh like a hyen,' says that great man; and as these words are spoken as a threat,
The Recreations of a Country Parson Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd 1862
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I will be more jealous of thee than a Barbary cock-pigeon over his hen, more clamorous than a parrot against rain, more new-fangled than an ape, more giddy in my desires than a monkey: I will weep for nothing, like Diana in the fountain, and I will do that when you are disposed to be merry; I will laugh like a hyen, and that when thou art inclined to sleep.
As You Like It 1599
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Ven hyen tum kati. k Ven hyen turn fliau, Kam-rao. l AlBsidawi.
The modern part of an universal history from the earliest accounts to the present time; 1780
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