Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A common name of one of the scorpænoid fishes, Scorpæna mystes, of the Pacific coast of Mexico and Central America.
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'lapon to give his vote, and if he gave a frlent one, he might be Uable to mifeonftruftion: he therefore begged the indul -
The Parliamentary Register: Or, History of the Proceedings and Debates of the House of Commons ... 1784
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Tihat town, which is tweoty-eight miles diftaxit from NapIeS) and nine from Nocera, is fituated lapon the gulph to which it gives its name, and j« built psurtly upon the fouthern acclivities of the projeSing chain of Appennines, and partly upon the plain which there opens towards tb# fouth.
Travels through various provinces of the kingdom of Naples, in 1789 1795
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