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Definition of Jerids
1. jerid [n] - See also: jerid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jerids
Literary usage of Jerids
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Earth and Man: Lectures on Comparative Physical Geography in Its by Arnold Guyot, Cornelius Conway Felton (1853)
"... j-jerids of progress, that one hardly dares /^ к /f. /£^r them ; it is proclaimed
in words that are f ***ie °% /~ tine present age — Liberty, Equality, ..."
2. My Autobiography and Reminiscences by William Powell Frith (1888)
"... as I am told they came on with the wildest gesticulations, and brandishing
their spears and jerids, and even presenting their pistols, full-cocked, ..."
3. Bible Lands: Their Modern Customs and Manners Illustrative of Scripture by Henry John Van-Lennep (1875)
"Footmen are present, who pick up and supply the riders with the jerids. Severe and
indeed injurious blows are sometimes exchanged. ..."
4. Hours with the Bible, Or, The Scriptures in the Light of Modern Knowledge by Cunningham Geikie (1892)
"... when she enters the honse, the bridegroom holds a sword over her while the
guests fire off guns and dance, with swords and jerids, that Is, spears. ..."
5. Glossary of Terms and Phrases by Henry Percy Smith (1883)
"... on the Danube to below Cologne on the right bank of the Rhine, and completing
the northern frontier of the empire. Devil-worshippers. (jerids.) Devise. ..."
6. My Diaries: Being a Personal Narrative of Events, 1888-1914 by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1921)
"... the blow it had been given with one of a number of jerids got ready for the
occasion, and it was probable a trick was played on him through jealousy. ..."
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