Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See merle.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) The European blackbird. See blackbird.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun common black European thrush

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Examples

  • And the media feed and sustain our hysteria 24/7. merl Says:

    Matthew Yglesias » World Gone Mad 2010

  • Report this comment to the moderators merl Writes:

    Wal-Mart: Enemy of the Free Market 2005

  • Report this comment to the moderators merl Writes:

    Must be a male with Republican stripes 2004

  • Books lined the walls from floor to roofbeams and the mantel above the hearth was carved of rarest merl marble inlaid with silver knotwork; the air smelled of leather and parchment.

    Stormwarden Wurts, Janny 1989

  • Back on the web, I'm hoping to still keep E-merl ticking over with new projects as well.

    COMIXTALK 2009

  • Back on the web, I'm hoping to still keep E-merl ticking over with new projects as well.

    COMIXTALK 2009

  • We at the atabrine tenderization cruz, an bitter decasyllabic myotomy, and grumble midget clutches and merl.

    Rational Review 2009

  • 18 Responses to “National Security Messaging” merl says:

    Matthew Yglesias » National Security Messaging 2010

  • This brought over many foUovyers of for - tune from England, merl often 0/bad charade rs, but poffeffed of money to buy the forfeited eftates; and the lord deputy was accufed of favouring the raipacity of thefe purchafers, and of hanging fome confidcrable men, whofe guilt was not very appa - rent/

    The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent Statesmen, Patriots, Divines ... 1791

  • Johnson didn’t like this, and his move to fire Sheridan and replace him with probably the most lenient regime in any of the Military Districts was probably the tipping point at which the Republicans decided they needed to get rid of him, and the point at which they started begging Grant to run in 68. merl says:

    Matthew Yglesias » Endgame 2010

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