Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Expense; expenditure of money.
- noun A buttery; alarder; a cellar or other place where provisions are kept.
- noun The apartment of a house where the family sit and eat.
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Examples
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I got in touch with Roland Martin, Virgil Ward, the host of a long-running TV show, his grandson Greg, and Spense Petros, an outdoor writer.
Caught Me a Big ’Un . . . and then I let him go! Jimmy Houston with Steven D. Price 2001
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I got in touch with Roland Martin, Virgil Ward, the host of a long-running TV show, his grandson Greg, and Spense Petros, an outdoor writer.
Caught Me a Big ’Un . . . and then I let him go! Jimmy Houston with Steven D. Price 2001
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I got in touch with Roland Martin, Virgil Ward, the host of a long-running TV show, his grandson Greg, and Spense Petros, an outdoor writer.
Caught Me a Big ’Un . . . and then I let him go! Jimmy Houston with Steven D. Price 2001
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Spense as a moderate he could find common ground with in many cases.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com David Thielen 2010
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Spense, Jonathan D. _The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci_.
Sequential Problem Solving A Student Handbook with Checklists for Successful Critical Thinking Fredric Lozo
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Spense, Jonathan D. _The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci_.
Sequential Problem Solving A Student Handbook with Checklists for Successful Critical Thinking Fredric Lozo
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Spense, Jonathan D. _The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci_.
Sequential Problem Solving A Student Handbook with Checklists for Successful Critical Thinking Fredric Lozo
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Spense, I’d guess it’s just the first difference scaled to match them.
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So here’s Roland Martin, Virgil and Greg Ward, Spense Petros, and me, some of America’s top TV fishermen, working till three in the morning putting those Ranger boats together.
Caught Me a Big ’Un . . . and then I let him go! Jimmy Houston with Steven D. Price 2001
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So here’s Roland Martin, Virgil and Greg Ward, Spense Petros, and me, some of America’s top TV fishermen, working till three in the morning putting those Ranger boats together.
Caught Me a Big ’Un . . . and then I let him go! Jimmy Houston with Steven D. Price 2001
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