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Definition of Baleens
1. baleen [n] - See also: baleen
Lexicographical Neighbors of Baleens
Literary usage of Baleens
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Travels of a Naturalist: A Record of Adventures, Discoveries, History and by Adolphe Boucard (1894)
"These are the baleens, a valuable article of commerce, which sells in European
markets from £200 to £300 per ton. Another important article of commerce ..."
2. Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts by Colonial Society of Massachusetts (1913)
"... or sand ballast of ships, and concerning, fishes royal (to wit, sturgeons,
baleens,1 whales, porpoises, dolphins, rigs, ..."
3. Massachusetts Royal Commissions, 1681-1774 by England and Wales Sovereign, Great Britain Sovereign (1913)
"... or sand ballast of ships, and concerning fishes royal (to wit, sturgeons,
baleens,1 whales, porpoises, dolphins, rigs, ..."
4. Transactions of the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec (1879)
"By JU Gregory, Esq.:—Two baleens of the Whale stranded at St. Joachim, August, 1871.
By HS Scott, Esq.:—A Sepia, or Squid. By Dr. Boswell:—Two Birds—an Owl ..."
5. Theatrum Poetarum Anglicanorum: Containing Brief Characters of the English by Edward Phillips, Egerton Brydges (1824)
"William \ Gray, an elegant writer (if we may rely upon the testimony of baleens"),
of several things in English verse, in the reigns of King Edward the ..."
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