Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Plural of
clypeus .
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- noun Plural form of
clypeus .
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Examples
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Majesty Louis Philippe, his august family, and the numberless placemen and supporters of the monarchy, on the other; it was something like Thersites girding at Ajax, and piercing through the folds of the clypei septemplicis with the poisonous shafts of his scorn.
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Let the shade of blind Homer be called up to say whether the bard who composed the tremendous line — “Surgit ad hos clypei dominus septemplicis Ajax” — equal to any save ONE of his own, was a mere amatory songster.
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_V. _ nigra, delicatule punctata; clypei margine antica, macula pone oculos, margineque postica segmenti primi abdominis flavis; alis fulvo-hyalinis.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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_I. _ nigra; clypei margine antico, maculis duabus postscutelli flavis; segmentis abdominis ad apicem flavo angustè fasciatis.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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_G. _ niger; clypei lateribus flavis; collari, tuberculis postscutelloque flavis; segmentorum abdominis marginibus apicalibus flavis constrictis, pedibusque flavo variegatis.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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“Opposui molem clypei, texique jacentem,” is amplified by a similar witticism,
The Dramatic Works of John Dryden Scott, Walter, Sir 1882
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Ajax, and piercing through the folds of the clypei septemplicis with the poisonous shafts of his scorn.
The Paris Sketch Book William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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"_Opposui molem clypei, texique jacentem_," is amplified by a similar witticism,
The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author Walter Scott 1801
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Subtus lamina clypei in medio elcvata, paulolum fupra os fulcro verticali, longitudine
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