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This mineral was commonly called Muscovy Glass after the Latin term vitrum Muscoviticum.
Mica 2008
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It is supposed that woad was "vitrum" the dye with which Caesar said almost all the Britons stained their bodies.
Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer Ethel M. Mairet
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Alii vitrum constant, ab aliis charta conficitur; omnes certe lymphiones cujuscunque artis et videntur et habentur.
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Item propè Acon ad ripam dictam Beleon, est fossa multum vtilis, et mirabilis quæ dicitur fossa Mennon, hæc est rotunda circumferentia, cuius diameter continet prope 100. cubitos, plena alba et resplendente arena, et mundi ex qua conficitur mundum et perlucidum vitrum.
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Si quis autem vitrum de hac arena factum in fossa reponeret, conuerteretur iterum in arenam, et qui imponeret frustum metalli, verteretur in vitrum: nonnulli reputant hanc fossam esse spiraculum maris arenosi, de quo mari aliquid locuturus sum in sequentibus.
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Item si de eo non potest scindi vitrum cristallum, non est verus.
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Item si de eo non potest scindi vitrum cristallum, non est verus.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Item prop� Acon ad ripam dictam Beleon, est fossa multum vtilis, et mirabilis qu� dicitur fossa Mennon, h鎐 est rotunda circumferentia, cuius diameter continet prope 100. cubitos, plena alba et resplendente arena, et mundi ex qua conficitur mundum et perlucidum vitrum.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Si quis autem vitrum de hac arena factum in fossa reponeret, conuerteretur iterum in arenam, et qui imponeret frustum metalli, verteretur in vitrum: nonnulli reputant hanc fossam esse spiraculum maris arenosi, de quo mari aliquid locuturus sum in sequentibus.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The following ludicrous specimens of conversation, throwing light on the manners as well as on the linguistic attainments of the students, were overheard in the University of Paris: "Capis me pro uno alio"; "Quando ego veni de ludendo, ego bibi unum magnum vitrum totum plenum de vino, sine deponendo nasum de vitro"; "In prandendo non facit nisi lichare suos digitos."
The Age of the Reformation Preserved Smith 1910
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