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Definition of Formers
1. former [n] - See also: former
Lexicographical Neighbors of Formers
Literary usage of Formers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chemical Technology; Or, Chemistry in Its Applications to the Arts and by Edmund Ronalds, Thomas Richardson, Henry Watts, Friedrich Ludwig Knapp (1865)
"L formers, or Rollers, are made of any hard wood, and in many instances, the
blades are covered with brass, or made of solid gun- metal. ..."
2. Chemical Recreations: A Popular Manual of Experimental Chemistry. Div. I, [II]. by John Joseph Griffin (1860)
"It shows, therefore, the flesh-formers, the heat-givers, ... Flesh-formers 17
148 Carbon in ditto 9 80 Heat-givers 61 110 Carbon in ditto 30 70 The reader ..."
3. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1887)
"187100, granted to John Clark, February 6,1877, for an "improvement in cheese-formers
for cider-presses," on an application filed September 11, 1876. ..."
4. Carlyle and the Open Secret of His Life by Henry Larkin (1886)
"... of Existence—Transcendent Realism—Social Dandies and Social Drudges—True
formers and re-formers of Society —Passionate hopes and indications. Book III. ..."
5. Lessons in Elementary Physiology by Thomas Henry Huxley (1900)
"The Erroneous Division of Food-stuffs into Heat- producers and Tissue-formers.
— Food-stuffs have been divided into heat-producers and tissue-formers—the ..."
6. The Philosophical Works of David Hume by David Hume (1826)
"DEITIES NOT CONSIDERED AS CREATORS OR formers OF THE WORLD. THE only point of
theology, in which we shall find a consent of mankind almost universal, is, ..."
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