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Definition of Jirds
1. jird [n] - See also: jird
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jirds
Literary usage of Jirds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1899)
"... nor can you escape the arms of the \vars and Persians, unless you could soar
into the air like jirds, unless like fishes you could dive into the waves. ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1850)
"The nails are cut, the cut- jings carefully wrapped in paper, and placed in he
hollow of a pollard ash, concealed from the jirds ; when the paper decays, ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1908)
"On one side, »vered by fine wire-netting, was an aviary with stream md fountain,
trees and shrubs, all for the pleasure of the jirds. ..."
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