Lexicographical Neighbors of Dentalia
Literary usage of Dentalia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Selections from Ovid and Virgil: A Shorter Handbook of Latin Poetry. With by Ovid, William James Rolfe, Virgil (1866)
"dentalia = the share-beam ; a piece of wood fixed horizontally at the lower end
of the ... The plural dentalia is used by Virgil in speaking of one plough, ..."
2. The Naturalist in Vancouver Island and British Columbia by John Keast Lord (1866)
"... )—dentalia OR MONEY-SHELL. THE CAMP of the Commission is pleasantly situated
in a hollow, rather than a valley, between rounded hills, perfectly bare of ..."
3. Chinook texts by Franz Boas (1894)
"The [girl's relatives] keep the dentalia [which have been sent them] and the ...
Now her mother prepares her dentalia and the people make themselves ready. ..."
4. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1910)
"It will be seen that the dentalia beads are found in about equal proportions in
old and ... One lot of dentalia found in a cremation circle was charred. ..."
5. Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico V. 1/4 by Frederick Webb Hodge (2003)
"In addition to their dentalia the Hupa and the peoples of Klamath r., in N.
California, use scalps of woodpeckers. ..."
6. A Manual of Roman Antiquities by William Ramsay (1870)
"It presented two similar and symmetrical sides (duplici dentalia dorso); ...
Over the wooden Dentale or dentalia, an iron share wag sometimes slipped, ..."
7. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), George Long (1837)
"Rondelet considered the dentalia as marine shell worms ... wherein he arranged,
together with the dentalia, all the calcareous tubes of Annelids then known. ..."
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