Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
gaur .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A fire worshiper; a Gheber or Gueber.
- noun (Zoöl.) See
Koulan .
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Examples
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The main reason by my opinion is a lot of the shooting and gour possibly adult sitchuation.
Test Screening Review: G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra | /Film 2009
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Virginia deer, the wapiti, the gour, or the royal tiger may be the game in hand.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 Various
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And I'll still hae gour houses and a 'o' your land.
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With them a deer is a deer, and a large ox-like animal a buffalo, or it may be a gayal, or a jungle cow, or a gour, or a gyall; but which of all these is an ox, or whether the four last-mentioned bovine quadrupeds are one and the same species, remains to be determined.
The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains Mayne Reid 1850
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He gave me some gour-nuts, and I found him a friendly man.
Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government James Richardson 1828
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They begin to eat them from childhood, and so keep on, as the gour-nuts are chewed by children; and so the taste is sucked in with their mother's milk.
Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government James Richardson 1828
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I am also assured that the three hundred wives of the Sarkee himself are at almost everybody's disposal, two or three gour-nuts being the utmost which these ladies ask.
Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government James Richardson 1828
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This country of the gour is distant three months 'travelling, making small stages south-west by west.
Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government James Richardson 1828
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The gour-nut, however, is something, whilst the doom fruit is mere wood.
Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government James Richardson 1828
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I feel most determinedly disposed to give nothing more; but in justice I have to add, that his highness sends regularly the milk in the morning, that he gave me a piece of gour-nut on the road, and that he sent me a few dates at my request!
Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government James Richardson 1828
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