Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A shallow and more or less intermittent spring.
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- noun A
shallow or more or lessintermittent spring . - noun A
violent flow or rush ofwater .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Then the bishop and his attendants "wash" (lavant) the bell inside and out with the water thus prepared and dry it with towels, the psalm "Laudate Dominum de coelis" and five others of similar import being sung meanwhile.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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Pour ces ablutions, s'ils sont auprès d'un ruisseau, ils descendent de cheval, se mettent les pieds nus, et se lavant les mains, les pieds, le visage et tous les conduits du corps.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Bedti, qui lavant ftoias fuas in fdnguine Agni: forisca - nes, 8c omnis qui amac, 6c facitmendacium, alieluia.
Breviarium ecclesiæ Rotomagensis Rouen diocese 1777
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Argclla, balneum quoddam Macc - donicum, in quo calefadlo homines lc lavant.
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Pour ces ablutions, s’ils sont aupr鑣 d’un ruisseau, ils descendent de cheval, se mettent les pieds nus, et se lavant les mains, les pieds, le visage et tous les conduits du corps.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Jam Mundela Cp) raros Nympha Soloecismos fubvecfrat Matribus, illo Panniculos dum fonte lavant: ScllcTque Patrocli Stipantur foeno, pecudes miferante bubulco.
Symbolographia, sive, De arte symbolica : sermones septem Schalckh, J. C., 18th cent 1701
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