Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Nodding, as if with the purpose of signifying assent or consent. Smart (1849).
- Serving to bend the head forward: specifically applied to the muscles used in nodding.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Nodding.
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- adjective
nodding ; used in nodding
Etymologies
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Latin annuens, present participle of annuo.
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Examples
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Canaeque nardi flantibus annuent Hinc inde yentis: atque in omiu Alta Ceres fluitabit arvo.
Matthiae Casimiri Sarbievii e Societate Jesu, Carmina Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, Joannes Michael van der Ketten 1791
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