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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In ornithology, same as
Rhodostethia . - noun In Mollusca, a genus of decapod cephalopods of the family Sepiolidæ.
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The advice given by Pinteado, not to go farther, was for the safety of the mens lives, which would have been in great danger at that late season, during their winter or _rossia_, not so called on account of cold, but from the heat accompanied with close and cloudy air, alternating with great tempests, during which the air was of so putrifying a quality as to rot the clothes on their backs.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 Robert Kerr 1784
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