Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A stem or stalk; also, the shaft of a column, from the base-moldings to the capital.
- noun In some firearms, a pin at the base of the breech, designed to expand the base of the ball.
- noun In a center-fire cartridge, a support for the cap or primer.
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"The tige is the part of plants which, directed into the air, supports, and _gives growing power to_, the branches, the twigs, the leaves, and the flowers.
Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859
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“Reconstruit les cheveux abimes en penetrant dans la tige capillaire, optimisant ainsi la cohesion et la revitalization.”
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Reconstruit les cheveux abîmés en pénétrant dans la tige capillaire, optimisant ainsi la cohésion et la revitalization.
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Imagine that a Great White shark and a Bengal tige...
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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Jah, ma olen aeg-ajalt inimeste tegude pärast pettunud (ei, mitte sinu omade, Bertinotti puhul pigem, eks), ma olen kurb, väsinud, pahane, tige ja kõik need teised emotsioonid.
tatsutahime Diary Entry tatsutahime 2008
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Reconstruit les cheveux abîmés en pénétrant dans la tige capillaire, optimisant ainsi la cohésion et la revitalization.
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Yet she still had the ves-tige of a waist, and it was here she used the knife, cutting through her shift and the top layers of flesh beneath.
Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997
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This manual is a translation and adaptation of "La plante la tige, les bourgeons, les feuilles," published by the Agri - Service - Afrique of the Institut africain pour le dveloppement conomique et social (INADES), and forms part of a series.
Chapter 2 1976
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Page 615, Volume 3 tige of Laplace gave support to his concept of equally likely events and actually to the “principle of insuffi - cient reason” (or briefly “indifference principle”) on which this concept rests (Section IV, 6).
Dictionary of the History of Ideas HILDA GEIRINGER 1968
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Kant may be, he is still under the shadow of the pres - tige of the idea of genesis.
COSMIC IMAGES H 1968
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