Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Nautical, with the sails so arranged that the bow is kept to the sea: said of a ship in a gale.
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Examples
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Maibee it wuz jus a random sneez an I attri… atry… blaimed it on teh flowrz.
Why don’t you come over here - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Yet after all this depredation we've let the corporate plantation become our American Idol (atry).
America the Dutiful 2007
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September the winde came South Southeast, and blew so exceedingly, that wee were forced to lye atry (109) all that day.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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A bit more American Idol-atry, dears (sorry, but you know you love it), then off to the real Simons of the world: you friggin 'A.T. malcontents.
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It looks like I'll hav eto give it atry with the new version.
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American Idol - atry has truly reached critical mass.
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American Idol - atry has truly reached critical mass.
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Fox continued to lead the Opposition with a force of eloquence, and comprehtusion of mind, which excited the idol - atry of his friends, and the astonishment of his foes.
Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical 1812
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Let a candle be lighted, and-placed. in an open plain, it will then be vifible two miles round; and confequently was it* placed two miles above the fin-face of the earth,, it would fill with luminous par - ticles a fphere whofe diameter was fourmiles, and that before it had loft 'atry fenfible part of its weight.
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The wickednefs of the jews is not to be attributed to their religion: for above 2300 years they have wit - netted to all nations the unity of God, and his abomination of idol - atry.
The Analytical Review, Or History of Literature, Domestic and Foreign, on an Enlarged Plan 1796
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