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Definition of Spurries
1. spurry [n] - See also: spurry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spurries
Literary usage of Spurries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Travels Through the United States of North America: The Country of the by Henry Neuman (1800)
"I received fimilar information at spurries, twenty-five miles farther on ...
which lies between spurries and Baltimore* ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"The sand- spurries are delicate plants of the closely allied genus Tissa. Found in
salt-marshes and sea- beaches, with small pink flowers. ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1922)
"... no one of any education can imagine that there is only one America — past Soap
Ho, Copyhold, Nine Ashes, spurries: through Shallow Bow- ells, ..."
4. Orkney and Shetland Miscellany of the Viking Club by Viking Society for Northern Research (1908)
"Mrs. James Thomason, spurries House, Walls, Lerwick. (From the late PF Jamieson).
Donations. Mrs. Bruce of Sumburgh has contributed one guinea to the Funds ..."
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