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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the oral arms or processes from the mouth of a jelly-fish or other hydrozoan.
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In 1637 he came to the western mouth-arm of the Lena, from which he went along the coast to the river Olenek, where he passed the winter.
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866
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Aug. he came again to the Bychov mouth-arm of the Lena, up which he found it difficult to make his way on account of the many unknown shoals.
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866
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Four days after he came upon so much drift-ice that he was compelled to lie to at the mouth of the river, 120 versts to the east of the easternmost mouth-arm of the Lena.
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866
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After having sailed down the river, and passed, on the 14th August, the eastern mouth-arm of the Lena, he sailed round the large delta of the river.
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866
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Gulf of Ob through the easternmost mouth-arm of the river on the
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866
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He left the most easterly mouth-arm of the Lena on the 21st of August, and sailed 120 versts eastward, and there encountered drift ice which compelled him to seek a harbour at the coast.
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866
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Laptev, accompanied by a number of small craft carrying provisions, left Yakutsk on the 20th/9th July, 1739, and on the 31st/20th of the same month reached the mouth-arm of the Lena called Krestovskoj, on which he built, on a point jutting out into the sea, a high signal tower, one of the few monuments that are to be found on the north coast of Asia, and which is on that account mentioned by succeeding travellers in those regions.
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866
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