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Definition of Plims
1. plim [v] - See also: plim
Lexicographical Neighbors of Plims
Literary usage of Plims
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Open-air Studies in Geology by Grenville Arthur James Cole (1902)
"The matter is brought home to us somewhat startlingly when we realise that the
catastrophe of plims would have carried away half the island. ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"The bacon plims well in the boiling.' Glouc., SE. Wore., N'hamp., Up.-on- Sev., W.
Wore. (plump), and elsewhere, as Wilts., Somers., Heref., Devons. ..."
3. The Popular Science Monthly (1888)
"The first of these plims is regarded as the most systematic and scientific, and
the second as next so. Yet circum • stances have made it expedient for the ..."
4. Memoirs of Gen. W. T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman, James Gillespie Blaine (1891)
"... viz., Schofield, Thomas, and McPherson, our general plims, which I inferred
from the purport of our conversation here and at Cincinnati. ..."
5. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1873)
"I gain too much flesh here—I have increased a stone's weight, my waistcoat '
plims,' as your local word has it. I have already a corpulent inclining that ..."
6. Open-air Studies in Geology by Grenville Arthur James Cole (1902)
"The matter is brought home to us somewhat startlingly when we realise that the
catastrophe of plims would have carried away half the island. ..."
7. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"The bacon plims well in the boiling.' Glouc., SE. Wore., N'hamp., Up.-on- Sev., W.
Wore. (plump), and elsewhere, as Wilts., Somers., Heref., Devons. ..."
8. The Popular Science Monthly (1888)
"The first of these plims is regarded as the most systematic and scientific, and
the second as next so. Yet circum • stances have made it expedient for the ..."
9. Memoirs of Gen. W. T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman, James Gillespie Blaine (1891)
"... viz., Schofield, Thomas, and McPherson, our general plims, which I inferred
from the purport of our conversation here and at Cincinnati. ..."
10. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1873)
"I gain too much flesh here—I have increased a stone's weight, my waistcoat '
plims,' as your local word has it. I have already a corpulent inclining that ..."
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