Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
congee .
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- noun Alternative spelling of
congee . (the food)
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Examples
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The operator sitting by the gumla dipped this frame in the pulp, and after it was drained gave it to an assistant, who laid it on the grass to dry: this finished the process with us; but for the native market this paper is afterwards sized by holding a number of sheets by the edge and dipping them carefully in conjee, so as to keep the sheets separate.
Life of William Carey George Smith 1876
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When hot conjee once has burned them, children blow upon the cold. '
Hindu literature : Comprising The Book of good counsels, Nala and Damayanti, The Ramayana, and Sakoontala Kalidasa 1866
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ITis not known that the parifli ever had anj other name, thad what it now bears* Canifbaj has been fuppofed by tom6 to have been originallj written Canonfbay; others conjee* ture it to have fome connedion with the Latin vocable Cants.
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Vrfini j fed verum habet Bav. qiiod ex conjee:. refti - tuerat vrsinvs, qui & haiic Notam adjecit:, ,Raucus urbs Cretae Straboni et aliis.
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I fed some with conjee [rice-water], but that was all right. "
The Day's Work - Volume 1 Rudyard Kipling 1900
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"When we commenced paper-making several years ago, having then no machinery, we employed a number of native papermakers to make it in the way to which they had been accustomed, with the exception of mixing conjee or rice gruel with the pulp and using it as sizing; our object being that of making paper impervious to insects.
Life of William Carey George Smith 1876
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When hot conjee once has burned them, children blow upon the cold. "
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_ -- Rice in various forms is always spoken of as the food, alike of the sovereign, the priests, and the people; rice prepared plainly, conjee (the water in which rice is boiled), "rice mixed with sugar and honey, and rice dressed with clarified butter." [
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836
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