Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Art; device; invention.
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Examples
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Scattered throughout are recipes from the fourteenth-century Forme of Cury "cury": cookery.
Philocrites: It's Friday: Time for Middle English cooking! 2005
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Scattered throughout are recipes from the fourteenth-century Forme of Cury "cury": cookery.
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Licinius Macer adds a third disaster through which this cury became ill-omened, the massacre at the Cremera.
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It fell to the Faucian cury to vote first, and this cury had voted first in the years in which two memorable disasters occurred, the capture of the City and the capitulation of Caudium.
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Some time since I advised You of my being Con cernd in the Sale of a Ship of Negros the Mer cury She now brings sundry bills of Exchange with my
Letter from Robert Carter to Micajah and Richard Perry, July 27, 1720 1720
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The most probable meaning of it is the Parva Cokeria, or little cury, where the cooks of the town lived, just as "The Poultry," where the Poulters (now Poulterers) had their shops.
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Feb 1659/'60 Pepys, Samuel 1660
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Does mer - cury, independantly of the diseases it cures or causes, diminish the quantity of flesh by mere per - spiration?
Medico-Chirurgical Transanction The Medical and Chirurgical Society of London 1812
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Also since the densities are as the compressing forces, tha: t is, as the columns of mer - cury in the barometer, the heights from the sur - face being taken in arithmetical progression, the columns of mercury in the barometer at those Ijeights will decrease in geometrical progres - sion.
Outlines of Natural Philosophy: Being Heads of Lectures Delivered in the ... 1812
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The acetous acid does not aft on mer - cury unlels the latter is reduced to the ftate of a calx.
The Economy of Nature Explained and Illustrated: On the Principles of Modern Philosophy. By G ... 1798
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Spelaifai, ftatuea of Hercuka, Mer - cury, and Apollo, fo calledi iii* 191*
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