Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having the characters of a burbot or ling; of or pertaining to the Lotinæ.
  • noun A fish of the subfamily Lotinæ.

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Examples

  • She looked earneftly at the Tuilleries, and feemed to dwell upon the place where her children were; before flie was faftened to the guil - lotine, llie threw her eyes up to heaven, and foon after her head was fevered from her body.

    Historical epochs of the French Revolution, Goudemetz, H 1796

  • The merchants of Bourdeaux are all arrefled on the fame day, and condemned to the guil - lotine; but are permitted to redeem their lives by paying one hundred millions of hvres, to which they are forced to fubmit.

    Historical epochs of the French Revolution, Goudemetz, H 1796

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