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- noun Plural form of
spaw .
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Examples
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Just Between these two spaws is a fine Cleare and sweete Spring of Comon water very good to wash Eyes and pleasant to Drinke.
Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888
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I've been extending this concept, since I find it very useful and have used the onMouseOver to spawn a sqlServer query (a la Google Suggest) that spaws either a pop-up note or another window, both of which can contain HTML (or wiki markup) that can be nested.
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I am persuaded, there are fifty spaws in England as efficacious and salutary as that of Scarborough, though they have not yet risen to fame; and, perhaps, never will, unless some medical encomiast should find an interest in displaying their virtues to the public view — Be that as it may, recourse will always be had to this place for the convenience of sea bathing, while this practice prevails; but it were to be wished, they would make the beach more accessible to invalids.
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