Definitions
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- proper noun A
surname .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun English navigator who explored the Arctic while searching for the Northwest Passage (1550-1605)
Etymologies
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Examples
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Tim Davys appears to be the latest, although the name is a pseudonym I believe the writer's nationality is authentic.
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Tim Davys appears to be the latest, although the name is a pseudonym I believe the writer's nationality is authentic.
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Lanceheim is the second novel from Davys set in the stuffed animal universe of Mollisan Town, with Amberville being his debut and two more novels to follow.
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Lanceheim is the second novel from Davys set in the stuffed animal universe of Mollisan Town, with Amberville being his debut and two more novels to follow.
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Canon Davys conjectures that this Abbot in reality repaired and made sound the old cloisters that had been built by Ernulf
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_Madan_, _Marsh and Davys_; tablets to the four latter, are in the recess opposite the large painted window.
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Shall we say that quartz mountains will pulverize into innumerable Werners, Von Buchs, and Beaumonts; and the laboratory of the atmosphere holds in solution I know not what Berzeliuses and Davys?
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Until anthropology produces her Daltons and Davys we must fumble in this corner, just as the old alchemists fumbled for centuries before the dawn of chemistry.
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Until anthropology produces her Daltons and Davys we must fumble in this corner, just as the old alchemists fumbled for centuries before the dawn of chemistry.
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Would you believe that some of those working in the most dangerous parts of the mine have false keys to their Davys, and use the flame to light their pipes?
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