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Definition of Beeswings
1. beeswing [n] - See also: beeswing
Lexicographical Neighbors of Beeswings
Literary usage of Beeswings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Macmillan's Magazine by John Morley, Mowbray Morris, David Masson, George Grove (1902)
"... the water that I may know him for the right bird to lime,” she said, glancing
at the mists beginning to float like beeswings on the rosy evening air. ..."
2. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"... aged representative racehorse now on the turf, where in former days we had
our Laner- costs, Touchstones, beeswings, Alice Hawthorns, &c., by the dozen. ..."
3. The Chemistry of cookery by William Mattieu Williams (1900)
"... where connoisseurs abound who pass their glasses horizontally under their
noses, hold them up to the light to look for beeswings and absurd transparency ..."
4. The New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal (1848)
"... but it' the irritability continues in the stage of calm, there is vomited a
mucus containing particles of flocculi resembling beeswings. ..."
5. The Literary History of Philadelphia by Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer (1906)
"Let us go back to our original Mexican brigands, our fresh Texans with their big
beards and unerring ' beeswings,' our prairie heroines, ..."
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