Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A rambling; passage beyond certain limits; extraordinary deviation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A rambling or ramble; a passage over bounds; an excursion.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
rambling ;passage beyond certainlimits ;extraordinary deviation .
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_Scheme_, by which means every of those little hooked _fibres_ of the leaved stalk get between the naked stalks, and the stalks being full of knots, and a prety way dis-join'd, so as that the _fibres_ can easily get between them, the two parts are so closely and admirably woven together, that it is able to impede, for the greatest part, the transcursion of the
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669
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