Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Once.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Scot. Once.
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Examples
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I subscribe to the WSJ online and find comments by folks are frequently intelligent; some comments, however, like unedited comments elsewhere on the net, are inane, borderline profane and mundane (Are those enough “anes?”).
New WSJ.com Builds on Its Community of Subscribers - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Will find owt in anuvver cupple owrs if her can coming hoam oar haz tu stay obernite — depends hao fast her comes owt uv teh anes… anis… sleepyness.
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As for the whistle, it was gaen anes and ay; but mony a time was it heard at the top of the house on the bartizan, and amang the auld chimneys and turrets where the howlets have their nests.
Redgauntlet 2008
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Propane is certainly found in natural gas as a heavy hydrocarbon gas HC along with Ethane, Butane, and several other -anes.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Oil at $140 is Still a Modern Miracle 2008
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Dey maykz a kitteh burrito so dat kitteh duz not try 2 sit up or wash or byte dere stitchiz or ennyfing bfor teh an…anes…sleepy gas warez off.
purrito - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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‘It is very true,’ said the blind man, ‘that when I am tired of scraping thairm or singing ballants, I whiles mak a tale serve the turn among the country bodies; and I have some fearsome anes, that make the auld carlines shake on the settle, and the bits o’ bairns skirl on their minnies out frae their beds.
Redgauntlet 2008
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Only if ye could compass a harmonious call frae the parish of Skreegh-me-dead, as ye anes had hope of, I trow it wad please him weel; since I hae heard him say, that the root of the matter was mair deeply hafted in that wild muirland parish than in the Canongate of Edinburgh.
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Heaven. — “I was anes better off, that is, waridly speaking, even since I lost them; but that was before this last change.”
Old Mortality 2004
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Nanchardin nous fournit, pour notre monture et pour porter nos provisions, des anes et des mulets.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Willie Christie tells them wha dinna ken, that he has a public house, first door down Libbertown Wynd, in the Lawn Market, whaur he keeps the best o 'stuff; gude nappy Yill frae the best o' Bruars in big bottels an 'wee anes, an' Porter frae Lunnon o 'a' sorts; Whuske as gude as in the
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 370, May 16, 1829 Various
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