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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Plural of antrum.

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  • noun Plural form of antrum.

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Examples

  • But the stolid tree — a bloodwood, all bone, toughened by death, a few ruby crystals in sparse antra all that remained significant of past life — afforded but meagre hospitality to the, soft lead.

    My Tropic Isle 2003

  • [Greek: -- liphon eponumon te reuma kai petraerephae autoktit 'antra.] -- AESCHYLUS: _Prometheus Bound_.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 Various

  • But the stolid tree -- a bloodwood, all bone, toughened by death, a few ruby crystals in sparse antra all that remained significant of past life -- afforded but meagre hospitality to the, soft lead.

    My Tropic Isle 1887

  • "Scutulas oxigonias scu acutangulus erectas, et quasi gradiles, referri debere ad latericias et antiquas domus olim, viz. Nobilium quia vulgus, et infamiæ sortis homines, intra humiles casus, vet antra inhabitantur."

    Notes and Queries, Number 210, November 5, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Various 1852

  • A fast moving dance number with a Punjabi touch to it and some lazy singing, 'Soniye Billori' is predictable with the 'antra' portions being a better hear than the opening lines.

    unknown title 2009

  • The trains that are transporting millions Bhajan-chanting passengers every day is giving a deserted look and one fails to hear a single antra of a patriotic song from them.

    Indian Muslims 2009

  • The trains that are transporting millions Bhajan-chanting passengers every day is giving a deserted look and one fails to hear a single antra of a patriotic song from them.

    Countercurrents.org 2009

  • A fast moving dance number with a Punjabi touch to it and some lazy singing, 'Soniye Billori' is predictable with the 'antra' portions being a better hear than the opening lines.

    unknown title 2009

  • The experience with the robotic remote navigation system is limited but the published data suggests that transeptal puncture can be guided with the steerable sheath system and that pulmonary vein antra can be isolated and flutter can be done.

    Scientific Blogging 2008

  • Et qus mille nigris errant animalia fylvisy sc Et quod alunt mutnm Proteoa antra pecus.

    The Works of the English Poets.: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical 1779

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