Definitions
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- proper noun A male
given name , a variant spelling ofSilvanus .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (Roman mythology) god of woods and fields and flocks; Pan is the Greek counterpart
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Examples
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Joachimsen called Sylvanus Spencer, a native of New York State, to provide the appropriate testimony.
Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007
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Joachimsen called Sylvanus Spencer, a native of New York State, to provide the appropriate testimony.
Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007
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Joachimsen called Sylvanus Spencer, a native of New York State, to provide the appropriate testimony.
Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007
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Joachimsen called Sylvanus Spencer, a native of New York State, to provide the appropriate testimony.
Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007
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The nickname "Silly Bill" -- long ago compounded by merry child-comrades from "William" and "Sylvanus" -- was not to his taste, especially in public, where he preferred to be addressed simply and manfully as "Baxter."
Seventeen 1915
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The nickname "Silly Bill" -- long ago compounded by merry child-comrades from "William" and "Sylvanus" -- was not to his taste, especially in public, where he preferred to be addressed simply and manfully as "Baxter."
Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William Booth Tarkington 1907
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"Sylvanus," and wrote with an admirable gusto of racing men and racing scenes in the forties, has set down in his _Bye-lanes and Downs of
Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912
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Captain Taylor went to Hobarton, and bought from the insurers the schooner 'Sylvanus' which had belonged to him, and having been wrecked was then lying ashore on the coast.
The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned George Dunderdale 1862
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This is, simply stated, a beautiful expression of that Sylvanus Vineyard.
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Channing Daughters Winery's 2007 Mosaico ($29) is a field blend of 32% pinot grigio, 29% chardonnay, 14% sauvignon blanc, 12% muscat ottonel, 7% Tocai Friulano, and 6% Gewurztraminer that comes from a co-planted block in their Sylvanus Vineyard in Bridgehampton.
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