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Definition of Bonier
1. boney [adj] - See also: boney
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bonier
Literary usage of Bonier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Law of Baron and Femme: Of Parent and Child, Guardian and Ward, Master by Tapping Reeve, Amasa Junius Parker, Charles E. Baldwin (1882)
"bonier, Ld. Raym., 1454, decided in the King's Bench in 1726, an order upon the
father-in-law, ... bonier."
2. Collections and Notes, 1867-1876 by William Carew Hazlitt (1876)
"The volume is in black letter, and the verse is the 14-syllable measure. The title
is enclosed in a bonier similar to that employed by Denham the printer ..."
3. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"S. Blythe ivas she¡ f But Phemie was a bonier lass Can match the lads o' Galla
water. . . . . /3. Yarrow an' Tweed, to monie a tune, Than braes o1 Yarrow ..."
4. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the by Francis Walker, John Edward Gray (1865)
"Male. Bright metallic-blue. Head silvery about the eyes. Hind part and fore bonier
of the ... bonier ..."
5. Once a Week by Eneas Sweetland Dallas (1866)
"... To dream, perchance, of other raids or bloody bonier fight; The Warden of the
Marches must hold carouse at home. ' While stealthily we sweep along as ..."
6. The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments (1903)
"... before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.
3 bonier : 4 So be til« LORD with you, ..."
7. Paxton's Botanical Dictionary: Comprising the Names, History, and Culture of by Joseph Paxton (1868)
"M. arbórea is readily increased by cuttings. The seeds of tho other kinds only
require to be sown in the open bonier in spring. Synonymes : 1, J/. alba ; 2, ..."
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