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  • noun rare Plural form of i., the name of the letter I.

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Examples

  • The Nailers are the league leaders in shorties with 11.

    Minor League Baseball News - MLN - The Raw Feed 2009

  • - Four Flyers (Carter, Richards, Gagne) lead the league in shorties, with four each. odds on various sports with 888sport.

    Hockeyleaks.com 2009

  • It then grew and kept unfolding for about four centur - ies, that is, till about 200 B.C., and the last of these four centuries, that is the era from 300 B.C. to 200 B.C., was a culminating one.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas SALOMON BOCHNER 1968

  • I need to think about the best way to document any mapping I do between taxonomies, ontologies, vocabularies (all the museumy 'ies') and different API functions or schemas, but I figure the museum API wiki is a good place to draft that.

    Final thoughts on open hack day (and an imaginary curatr) Mia 2009

  • I need to think about the best way to document any mapping I do between taxonomies, ontologies, vocabularies (all the museumy 'ies') and different API functions or schemas, but I figure the museum API wiki is a good place to draft that.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Mia 2009

  • "Dis de on'ies 'shut Ole' Stracted got," she said, as if in apology to herself for being so careful.

    Short Story Classics (American) Vol. 2 Various 1902

  • On'y de fun'al he'd preach wouldn't help her to rest in her grave -- dat's de on'ies 'diffe'ence.

    Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches Ruth McEnery Stuart 1886

  • He would also call us, the eight girls that were on his trip, by nicknames finishing by "ies" angain and in relation with our nationality.

    TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010

  • And although I hate Byrnsie and all the smarmy "ies" from that local softball team across the bay, I think it would be a great pickup to get him while the Dbacks pay his salary, bat him in the 7 or 8 hole, let him run into the brick wall in right, and maybe, just maybe be more help to us the than the "I don't need no $17 million dollar doofus LaRoach" is to them.

    McCovey Chronicles: FanPosts world wide suicide 2010

  • 'apricocks, green figs, and dewberries', and all the lines end in 'ies'.

    Puck of Pook's Hill Rudyard Kipling 1900

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