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Definition of Barrener
1. barren [adj] - See also: barren
Lexicographical Neighbors of Barrener
Literary usage of Barrener
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1875)
"PRESENT ENTRIES: I barrener, 2 prime fat heifers, 3 fat heifers, 8 very superior fat
... Four good young dairy cows in milk and in calf, I barrener in milk. ..."
2. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1898)
"PASSAGE (Arabian — Twelfth Century) I SEE not the strand, For you all understand
That I pass for a mariner; None can be barrener Either of houses or land: ..."
3. The Works of John Locke, in Nine Volumes by John Locke (1824)
"Either the land is grown barrener, and so the product is less; and consequently
the money to be received for that product is less; for it is evident, ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1845)
"Had he the privileges or the ties of an ordinary man, then, as we all know, the
barrener the rocks, the dearer seems the love of the native land ; but, ..."
5. The Transit of Civilization from England to America in the Seventeenth Century by Edward Eggleston (1901)
"... as it now being barrener, of its own accord, produces such as we call insecta,
as Mice and Frogs, and sometimes new fashion'd Animals. ..."
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