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- noun inorganic chemistry  
nitrogen trichloride when it was used as ableaching agent andimproving agent inflour  
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- noun a yellow pungent volatile oil (trade name Agene) formerly used for bleaching and aging flour
 
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If, in the evolution of the future, a third division of the human race is to be formed by subtracting sex from woman, -- a retrograde development, -- I venture to propose the term agene (+a+ without, +genos+ sex) as an appropriate designation for the new development.
Sex in Education or, A Fair Chance for Girls Edward Hammond Clarke 1848
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Take the anticancer drug Purinethol: A variant in agene called TPMT causes one in 300 childhood leukemia patients to suffer life-threatening side effects from the med.
15th Anniversary: DNA-Customized Medicine Still Stuck in the Pipeline Julie Sloane 2008
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And although there is almost certainly not agene, or even a handful of genes, that accounts for the transformation from the wolf to the dog, a study of the population genetics of the two species could potentially speak volumes about the origin and history of domestication.
The Truth About Dogs 1999
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And although there is almost certainly not agene, or even a handful of genes, that accounts for the transformation from the wolf to the dog, a study of the population genetics of the two species could potentially speak volumes about the origin and history of domestication.
The Truth About Dogs 1999
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And although there is almost certainly not agene, or even a handful of genes, that accounts for the transformation from the wolf to the dog, a study of the population genetics of the two species could potentially speak volumes about the origin and history of domestication.
The Truth About Dogs 1999
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· binna {n} Burgan ⁊ butan · {10} swa ful ⁊ swa ford swa mine agene Wicneres hit sechan scolden · ⁊ ofer swa fele þeinas swa ich heom to {} leten habban.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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i {n} fangenesthiafes · ⁊ fleamene frimtha · ofer heore agene men
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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») L Ji. elcg, 2» y) Plutarch. deP j) • In templom Yeneris, qoin 'et narrantibns nomis Sereri est Ino $e$e ex rupe in fhh Corinthiit iptom Acrocorinthum a Sole ciu$ cum filio praecipitem agene ad$tituto Yeneri dono datom scrtbit Paosanias »), deiphino.
Doctrina nvmorvm vetervm conscripta a Josepho Eckhel .. Hohler, Emerich Thomas, 1781-1846. [from old catalog] 1792
 
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