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Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The dandelion. Also priest's-crown (which see).

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Examples

  • Then the whole scene changed; and he thought himself a monk's-head on a gutterspout; and it rained dismally; and Berkley was standing under with an umbrella, laughing!

    Hyperion Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1844

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