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Definition of Allays
1. allay [v] - See also: allay
Lexicographical Neighbors of Allays
Literary usage of Allays
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Samuel F.B. Morse: His Letters and Journals by Samuel Finley Breese Morse, Edward Lind Morse (1914)
"Shaffner allays his fears. — Morse attends his son's wedding at Utica. — His own
second marriage. — First of great lawsuits. — Almost all suits in Morse's ..."
2. Samuel F.B. Morse: His Letters and Journals by Samuel Finley Breese Morse, Edward Lind Morse (1914)
"Shaffner allays his fears. — Morse attends his son's wedding at Utica. — His own
second marriage. — First of great lawsuits. — Almost all suits in Morse's ..."
3. The Æneid of Virgil by Virgil (1910)
"allays their fury and their rage confines. Did he not so, our ocean, earth, and
sky Were whirled before them through the vast inane. But over-ruling Jove, ..."
4. Specific Medication and Specific Medicines by John Milton Scudder (1870)
"In any case it allays gastro intestinal irritation, and favorably ... It is a
feeble but certain diaphoretic, and allays irritation of the nervous system. ..."
5. The Life and Adventures of Black Hawk: With Sketches of Keokuk, the Sac and by Benjamin Drake (1849)
"... people—Speech to the Meno- minies at Prairie des Chiens—Called upon to lead
his braves to join in the Black Hawk war—allays the excitement of his people ..."
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