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Historical Examples
On the first of the upper row of panels is a shield chArged with the arms of Tyldesley—Arg.
Historic Sites of Lancashire and Cheshire James Croston
The arms borne by the family are: Sable, a bend lozengy, Arg.
Cornish Characters S. Baring-Gould
Gu., an inescutcheon having a nail fixed in every point thereof in triangle, between as many holly leaves, all Arg.
English Heraldic Book-stamps Cyril Davenport
Dere was a neighbor, Shields, he’s drivin’ wood to town and goes n’cross masta’s yard and dey have Arg’ments.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves. Work Projects Administration
Dat whuppin’ cause plenty trouble and dere lots of Arg’ments ‘mong de white folks ’round dere.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves. Work Projects Administration
On the evening appointed a carriage came for us and drove us to the “Arg,” as the house of the governor is called.
Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia M. E. Hume-Griffith
Owen Glendower also bore a lion rampant sable, “the black lion of Powyss;” his arms were Paly of eight, Arg.
The History of Signboards Jacob Larwood
The Arg reappeared and started swimming to shore, but this time clumsily, as if it were bearing a heavy weight under the surface.
A Voyage to Arcturus David Lindsay
abbreviation
Argentina
Arg abbr.
arginine
argument
argent
Latin arguendo (for the sake of the argument, in the course of the argument)
Argentina
Argentine
Argentinean
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a wild sheep, Ovis ammon, of Asia, having long, curved horns that typically form an open, outwardly extended spiral: rare or endangered. Historical Examples argali, r′ga-li, n. the great wild sheep of Siberia and Central Asia. Chambers’s Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) Various The argali ranges over the steppes, or inland plains […]
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- Argan
noun a thorny evergreen tree, Argania spinosa, native to SW Morocco, the plum-sized fruit of which contains a nut that yields an oil valued for cooking Historical Examples Then again we were in the argan forest—the last of it, and the best: beautiful trees, with their knarled, twisted branches. In the Tail of the Peacock […]