Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Consisting of eggs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Consisting of eggs.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective archaic Consisting of
eggs .
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Examples
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I would also have had him tell us the nature of that white belt which crosses the sky, which you call the ovarious belt, "Khatt-i-abyâz", and we the milky-way, and which we consider to be a collection of self-lighted stars, while many orthodox but unlettered Musalmâns think it the marks made in the sky by "Borak", the rough-shod donkey, on which your prophet rode from Jerusalem to heaven.
Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official William Sleeman 1822
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He is perhaps the largest animal, except the crocodile in Africa, of the ovarious kind.
An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1 Alexander Hewatt
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When Sarah ate she set aside, with a sigh, the dish of dandelions with its crowning ovarious accompaniment.
The Four Million O. Henry 1886
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The flicpherd's fea-girt rtign; or, to die rocks Dire-clinging, gathers his ovarious food;
The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790
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