Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation Latin oculus sinister (left eye)
- abbreviation old series
- abbreviation out of stock
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TRISURON (o.s.): I have an inordinate fondness for giant space chickens.
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With great pleasure, I introduce to you Brigadier Richard S. Malone, o.s. E.,
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_Given_ at James Citty under my hand and sealed with the seale of the colony the twelfth day of March one thousand six hundred thirtie fower [o.s.] & in the tenth year of our Soveraigne Lord
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M948 The victory at Blenheim, 2 Aug. (o.s.), 1704. 1896
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Samuel Parr was born at Harrow-on-the-Hill, June 15 (o.s.) 1747.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 370, May 16, 1829 Various
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_In witness whereof_ I have to these presents sett my hand and the great seale of the colony, given at James Citty the six and twentieth day of January one thousand six hundred twenty one [o.s.] and in the yeares of the raigne, of our Soveraigne Lord, James by the Grace of God King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland,
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(1745-1818), British admiral, was born at Elgin, in Scotland, on the 2nd of July 1745 (o.s.).
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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Similarly the ali-sphenoids (a.s.), are wings to the basi -, and the orbito-sphenoids (o.s.), to the pre-sphenoid bone (p. sp.).
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Domenico de Ghurrado Bighordi, painter, called del Grillandaio, died on Saturday morning, on the 11th day of January, 1493 (o.s.), of a pestilential fever, and the overseers allowed no one to see the dead man, and would not have him buried by day.
Pictures Every Child Should Know A Selection of the World's Art Masterpieces for Young People Mary Schell Hoke Bacon 1902
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Torbay, November 14 (5 o.s.), which was William's birthday, and a rapid march was made to Exeter.
History of Holland George Edmundson 1889
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