Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An evergreen tree of the ebony family, Diospyros Dendo, native to western tropical Africa. It yields a very black hard wood known commercially as black ebony or Niger ebony.
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Examples
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Following email (portion here) sent to Martin Juckes and several other dendo people.
Watts Up With That? 2009
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Cardinalis Camerarius quandoque obtinet exem - ptionem a f ilntione Emolumentorum debi - tum Camera; tam in acquirendo, quam ven« dendo Loca Montium ibidem n. jj.
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Cqrneam Leuis; plicas tamen tenuiffimas continet fecuhdura quas varie contrahi, 3£ explicaripoteft, vel acce - dendo versus Oculi medium, ar&ato foramine, quodad minus extrcmum fui aperit, vel recedendo a medio fora - mine laxato, & quibiis aliquo modo ftriaturin Labro, ver -. siisaperturamforaminis conniuente 5 per alterum extremum ad Annulum Procefiuum Ciliarium fimul cum Choroide conne&itur.
Optica philosophia experimentis et ratione a fundamentis constituta, Nicolai ... Nicola Zucchi 1656
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I hope Steve’s good faith offer is accepted and some of more complex dendo processes are elaborated upon.
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Parsll TmB. Il Cap. VI Sect l % 1% fiftens j aliud vero cuius impreilio mutat fttum in Retina Ocuiij ad ipfum deferri, vei ab ipfb recedere: ilc paffim-eue - nlt, mutata correfpondenria inter Lunam & nubes -; vt fi ob - tutum defigamus ad mibes, Luna nobis videtur moueri ad iiias, ii apparens diftantia inter ea minuatur, vei. ab iliis recedere, ii augeatur: e contra vero defixo obtutu in Lunam, nubes videantur ipfac agitari accedendo ad illam, velrece - dendo ab illa.
Optica philosophia experimentis et ratione a fundamentis constituta, Nicolai ... Nicola Zucchi 1656
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