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Definition of Grazes
1. graze [v] - See also: graze
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grazes
Literary usage of Grazes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Our First Century: Being a Popular Descriptive Portraiture of the One by Richard Miller Devens (1876)
"Almost grazes the Sun, and, after Whirling Around that Orb with Prodigious
Velocity, Approaches the Earth with a Fearful Momentum. ..."
2. American Progress: Or, The Great Events of the Greatest Century, Including by Richard Miller Devens (1892)
"Almost grazes the Sun, and, after Whirling Around that Orb witli Prodigious
Velocity, Approaches the Earth with a Fearful Momentum. ..."
3. Travels in the Interior of Africa by Mungo Park, John Barrow (1822)
"It grazes with the zebra and qua-cha, and its voice, which has in it something
melancholy, is a kind of hollow lowing. The ostrich is polygamous, that is, ..."
4. Jiu-jitsu: A Comprehensive and Copiously Illustrated Treatise on the by Harry Hall Skinner (1904)
"A steps back and to the left so that B's fist either passes, or merely grazes him.
Now look sharp, (l) Seize B's wrist with your right, and while you help ..."
5. The New Physics: Sound by Joseph Battell (1909)
"... which grazes the surface of mercury contained in a small cup, the bottom of
which is connected by a copper wire with an electro-magnet placed in front ..."
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