Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- The hard smooth seeds of the red-bead vine, Abrus precatorius, used by East Indian jewelers and druggists for weights, and forming a standard.
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Examples
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We stroll through the gardens into a vast, Chinese - themed, tented dining room designed, once again, by Dante Fer - retti and built especially for the evening -- complete with tufted ceilings, palm trees and lacquered red and black walls, recreating the exotic glamour of Shanghai in the 1920s.
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Neither the K. N.P.'s nor the M. P.'s had a clue as to who had murdered M.retti.
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Inte - rim vi hujus Canonis nullus in Belgio Epifco - pams eredus eft nec per plura fabfequentia fecula quidquam adum fulire circa hanc retti reperimus.
Antverpia Christo nascens et crescens: seu, Acts ecclesiam antverpiensem ejusque apostolos ac ... 1773
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Omitto leliqua ampiiflimi illius Ducatus veftigia, quae quifcjue petere poterit ex aliis veterum Char« tis infra edendis, ac potiffimum ex Diflertatione Chorographica praelau*» dati Clarifs. viri Domni Gafparis Be» retti • Palam nunc fiat, provincian» quoque Pentapolis eidem Ducatui fuif» fe aliquando fubnexam • Regnanle De« fiderio Langobardorum Regjt, ut ha« bet Anaftafius in Vit» Stephani IV ..
Antiquitates Italicæ medii ævi; sive, Dissertationes de moribus, ritibus ... aliisque faciem ... 1773
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C.B. N.C. J.S. [B.retti says, "Regatta, _palio che si corre sull 'acqua_; a race run on water in boats.
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