Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The 11th planetoid, discovered by De Gasparis, at Naples, in 1850.
- noun In zoology, a generic name variously used.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Gr. Myth.) One of the Sirens, who threw herself into the sea, in despair at not being able to beguile Ulysses by her songs.
- noun One of the asteroids between Mars and Jupiter, discovered by M. de Gasparis in 1850.
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I mean then to state what, according to my notion are bad ingredients in composition and first, Inversion of Sentences, which may be instanced by recurring to a line in the Rehearsal, by the Duke of Buckingham, 'And me her dear parthenope she calls' now when this is rendered into plain English it is — 'And she calls me her dear Parthenope'.
Letter 94 2009
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