Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • An abbreviation of Prussia;
  • of Prussian.

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Examples

  • We spent holidays in Cy - prus, nestled in the cool mountains, relieved to be away from the dusty heat of the Nile.

    ɘloЯ 2010

  • The first was my appointment on June 4 of Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke as the new Special Presidential Emissary for C.prus.

    Letter To Congress To Report On Cyprus Clinton, Bill, 1946- 1997

  • B.C. Nothing can ever prove '; and he therefore believes that the communication was kept up by way of C.prus and the Palestinian coast.

    The Sea-Kings of Crete James Baikie 1898

  • These settlers are quite sufficient to account for the subsequent development of a higher culture in mid and south Syria, and there may well have been some further immigration from C.prus and other Aegean lands which, as time went on, impelled the cities of Phoenicia, so well endowed by nature, to develop a new culture apace about 1000 B.C. SEC.ION 8.

    The Ancient East 1894

  • The deposit, treated with acetic acid, is partly dissolved and gives a yellowish solution, from which a precipitate is thrown down by carbonate or prus** siate of potass, as well as by ìnfUsion of galls, but net by the caustic alkalies.

    Medico-Chirurgical Transanction The Medical and Chirurgical Society of London 1812

  • Of thevtfjds in that Fleet which w. is concluded by Zanne for the relief of Cy -, prus, 63. of what the Col - leagued Cnrtfliansjerces were to bejn vefjels and me, 91.

    The history of Venice, in the times of Julius the 2d ... 1658

  • 318 B.C. EUMENES SAT IN HIS TENT on the kindly coastland of Kilikia, looking across the sea towards C.prus 'distant hills.

    Funeral Games Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1981

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