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Magnifying _Microscope_, I found that the tufts or haires of its Wings were nothing else but a congeries, or thick set cluster of small _vimina_ or twiggs, resembling a small twigg of Birch, stript or whitned, with which
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669
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Ad plenum calcentur: aqua eludabitur omnis Scilicet, et grandes ibunt per vimina guttae;
P. Virgilii Maronis Opera Virgil, Gilbert Wakefield 1796
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L vt vimina, vt habeas vnde et cet A viere verbum faftum viefcere reftitui ex libris Columellae XII.
Scriptorvm rei rvsticae vetervm latinorvm tomvs primvs-[qvartvs].. 1794
vendingmachine commented on the word vimina
Thin, flexible sticks are called switches, wands, shrags, or vimina (singular vimen).
June 24, 2015