Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A brown iron-containing pigment found in the so-called livers of various invertebrates.
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Examples
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And not a penny is being wasted trying to improve America's infrastructure, free us from dependency on ferrin oil, or God forbid, spent on the health or family needs of ordinary Americans.
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Ex Officio delegates is more accurate, but I suspect many Democrats don't like them ferrin tongues.
Clinton can't win on pledged delegates. Ann Althouse 2008
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All sublunary bliss is fleeting;, on the very night of the first race-ball, her worthy - patroness was taken e} Ltremely ill, and it was not possible to leave her bedside the remainder of the week; at the end of it she expired, recommending, poor Ellen to the protection of her husband; and a mournful cavalcade returned to Gllynr - ferrin, lamenting, the loss, of its worthy mistress.
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