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Definition of Dimwits
1. dimwit [n] - See also: dimwit
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dimwits
Literary usage of Dimwits
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Face of the Earth: (Das Antlitz Der Erde) by Edward Suess (1904)
"In all other parts of the bordering mountains the most recent visible Tertiary
dimwits have been subjected to folding. In front of the Iranian arc lies in ..."
2. Anatomy of the Invertebrata by Carl Th. Ernst Siebold, Hermann Stannius, Waldo Irving Burnett (1854)
"3, 16, Taf. IV. flg. 3, 4, and Taf. VI. fig. 8. There is a very remarkable
disposition, according to stein (loc. cit. p. 30, Taf. I. fig. 4), with dimwits ..."
3. Microscopical Morphology of the Animal Body in Health and Disease by Carl Heitzmann (1882)
"... dimwits, which enables these animals to produce voluntary movements of the skin.
Bundles of smooth muscle-fibers are scattered throughout the derma, ..."
4. Mind in Animalsby Ludwig Büchner by Ludwig Büchner (1880)
"Profusely illustrated (published at 10s. 6d.), 3s. 6d. P. 5d. School edition (published
at 7s. 6d), 2s. 6d. P. 4£d. R'!dimwits of Geology. ..."
5. Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States by Asa Gray (1880)
"Flowers dimwits ; the staminate flowers destitute of pistils, with 15-20 anthers;
the fertile with & short column of filaments but usually no anthers. ..."
6. Surviving Twilight: A Soldier's Chronicle of Daily Life in Iraq by Shane A. Bernskoetter (2005)
"The dimwits just assume that since they can hear the guy on the other side of
the cube, he isn't robbing a soldier blind. Not the case. ..."
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