vafi

Alternatively, the midwife or mother might name the child after one of her own female ancestors, in order to "wake up the dead ones, those of long ago" (kupfuxa vafi, lava khale).

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Scenes of lewd lovea, and of polluted joys Where thdr vafi courts the mother*ftrumpeti And, undi£irb*d by watch, in filence ileepk Near thefc a niirfery ere£b its head.

Elegant Extracts; Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry: Selected for the Improvement of ... 1791

Were the whole beauties of the Gerufalemme narrated, a vafi: volume, and not a letter, ought to be the vehicle.

Letters of Literature: By Robert Heron, Esq 1785

Nm. T«lt brachia virginls. fed lagenam» aut potius monflrupi pracfcrt; pes ilii vnicusj vt vafi, corpus vero mara - mis plenum; qualein typum depin.

Lexicon vniversae rei nvmariae vetervm et praecipve Graecorvm ac Romanorvm: cvm observationibvs ... Johann Christoph Rasche 1785

Nah. 3,13. &c. Jam totum ipforum agmcn & numcrofus etiam excrcitus illimatur q vafi cornu flaccidum & debile armis hoftium facile cer - toq; conterendum Pf. 75,11.

Tuba danica, hoc est, Dissertatio theologica de aureo cornu in Cimbriâ invento, qvo, ceu tubâ clangente, Deus Opt. Max. nos, qvi regnum Daniae incolimus, excitat ex infelici securitatis somno ... Randrup, Enevold Nielsen, 1597-1666 1644

I hope hereafter, even in this cold, raw climate, to be warmed with the glowing colours of our own gohllii tapcftry, and I wifb encouragement was given by par - liament of dull mtiquuiant, but probably it fnmifhed the Jsltttl CseCa it reprdentcd in the laft-rdief on the vafi, M he ii dcfcribed by all hiRoriana in that im - portaot momcnl, gracefully coTeriog hiinfctf with the tog«, and falling at the bale of a pedcAnl, which fup - portl the ftatue of Pompcy the Great.

The speeches of Iohn Wilkes, one of the knights of the shire for the county of Middlesex, in the Parliament appointed to meet at Westminster the 29.th day of November 1774, to the prorogation the 6.th day of June 1777 1777