Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Becoming or growing white.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Growing or becoming white.
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- adjective rare Growing or becoming
white .
Etymologies
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Examples
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So, too, his vivid and clearly-cut descriptions of nature in single lines and phrases stand out by themselves like golden tesserae in a mosaic, each distinct in a glittering atmosphere -- _qua tumidus rigat arva Nilus; opacam porticus excipiebat Arcton; nec prata canis albicant pruinis_ -- a hundred phrases like these, all exquisitely turned, and all with the same effect of detachment, which makes them akin to sculpture, rather than painting or music.
Latin Literature 1902
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nec prata canis albicant pruinis. iam Cytherea choros ducit Venus imminente luna5
Tow Poems on the Return of Spring Horace 1912
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n. state of having wings; disposition of wings in insect. phr. - adj. belonging to bird family which includes the skylark; like or pertaining to skylark. albicant adj. - growing white. albication, n. albugo
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
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