Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A. book-name of any of the gibbons, as members of the genus Hylobates.

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Examples

  • The lone fisherman of the Isaak Walton type had become, in the New World, the wood-walker, the flower-hunter, the bird-fancier, the berry-picker, and many another variety of the modern ruralist.

    Nathaniel Hawthorne Woodberry, George E 1902

  • The lone fisherman of the Isaak Walton type had become, in the New World, the wood-walker, the flower-hunter, the bird-fancier, the berry-picker, and many another variety of the modern ruralist.

    Nathaniel Hawthorne George Edward Woodberry 1892

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