Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Milk-sickness.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Med.) Milk sickness.

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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of slow.
  • noun medicine, dated milk sickness

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Examples

  • Emergency crews are now racing around as the rain slows and the dry-up begins; it'll be sticky for a couple of hours.

    Bam! Weather! 2008

  • So come down and visit us here when the rain slows down in a week or so, and betake of this verdant wonder we live in.

    �Llueva, que llueva! 2006

  • So come down and visit us here when the rain slows down in a week or so, and betake of this verdant wonder we live in.

    �Llueva, que llueva! 2006

  • So come down and visit us here when the rain slows down in a week or so, and betake of this verdant wonder we live in.

    �Llueva, que llueva! 2006

  • So come down and visit us here when the rain slows down in a week or so, and betake of this verdant wonder we live in.

    �Llueva, que llueva! 2006

  • As the train slows down for a stop, half a dozen platforms from where I had decked her I come down.

    Holding Her Down 1907

  • As the train slows down for a stop, half a dozen platforms from where I decked here I come down.

    "Holding Her Down" - More Reminiscences of the Underworld 1907

  • As the train slows down for a stop, half a dozen platforms from where I had decked her I come down.

    Holding Her Down 1907

  • Presently the rope "slows" -- the lower depths are reached, and now for some time there is patient waiting, for it is understood that they are examining the "levels," where the stout men of Cornwall tear out the solid rock in quest of copper and tin.

    Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines 1859

  • March 11th, 2009 at 11: 13 pm they should make some kind of compressor hooked to the weels for brakeing. like an A/C compressor off a car that when you step on the brake the electric clutch kicks in slows the car down and helps charge the air tank back up. like on long hills cause you will need that charge to get back up the other side …. what goes down, must come up and also what goes up, must come down … … … .. thanks

    The Air-Powered MDI Car is Coming to the US! | Inhabitat 2008

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