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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
inarch .
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Examples
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There is no more reason to think that species have been specially endowed with various degrees of sterility to prevent them crossing and breeding in Nature, than to think that trees have been specially endowed with various and somewhat analogous degrees of difficulty in being grafted together, in order to prevent them becoming inarched in our forests.
Essays 2007
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Boots, not shoes; the boot steps inarched nearer, and nearer, from the rear of the house.
A Lady of His Own Laurens, Stephanie 2004
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When the slaves arrive in Morocco, they are inarched about in different directions of the country for sale.
Travels in Morocco 2003
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The redcoats inarched with unloaded muskets for the enemy was still a long way off and there was no sign of the Tippoo Sultan's infantry, nor of his feared cavalry.
Sharpe's Tiger Cornwell, Bernard 1997
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On their left, the highest chain of mountains on the continent, bearing a heavy crown of glacial ice that reached halfway down its flanks, inarched in ridges from east to west.
The Plains of Passage Auel, Jean M. 1990
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If the inarches become blighted, they can themselves be inarched, as shown.
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The stem bearing the pods was inarched into the chrysanthemum.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 795, March 28, 1891 Various
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(Figs. 1 and 2) But inarching of the native chestnut is for the most part unsuccessful because the fungus grows too rapidly and girdles the stem, killing the parts above before the inarched tips of the suckers can take hold.
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This was on the 29th of September, and on the same day, two regiments and a detachment of artillery from Halifax inarched into
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr
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Again vengeance fell upon the inhabitants of the Vendée: columns sur-named "Infernal" inarched through the country in all directions, destroying thousands of its inhabitants, and carrying thousands more as prisoners to Nantes, where they were delivered over to the tiger-fangs of the monster
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr
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