Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To stone; throw stones at.
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Examples
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180 Plutarch's lives. neither rose nor set at the same time with the sun, as it often hap - pened that in the same day she overtook and passed by him, he ordered that day to be called hene kai nea (the old and the new;) assigning the part of it before the conjunction to the old month, and the rest to the beginning of the new.
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W'hene'er they call, I'd readily afford My tongue, my pen, my counfel, or my fword.
The works of the British poets : with prefaces, biographical and critical 1795
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But, if you are on a low-carb diet that is high in meat, you should be getting plenty of hene iron, which is the most absorbable of all.
Talking diet with your doctor | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2008
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But, if you are on a low-carb diet that is high in meat, you should be getting plenty of hene iron, which is the most absorbable of all.
Talking diet with your doctor | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2008
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"What you come hene for then?" asked the old man - not challenging, just curious.
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul Adams, Douglas, 1952- 1988
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These words are recited in Erubhin: where the word Beth-hene is writ, Beth-jone, and Tubni is writ Tubina.
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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R. Judah saith, The green figs of Beth-hene are not mentioned; unless in respect of the tenths; as the tradition is.
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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Beth-hene certainly seems to be the same altogether with our Bethany; and the name to be drawn from the word Ahene, which signifies the "dates of palm-trees," not come to ripeness: as the figs also signifies "green-figs," that is, such figs as are not yet ripe.
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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Bethany seems to be the same with Beth-hene among the Talmudists.
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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Mr.A. J. Currie, however, asserts that the note in question is that emitted by spotted owlets (_A.hene brama_) when they have young.
A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916
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