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Definition of Lefts
1. left [n] - See also: left
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lefts
Literary usage of Lefts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Contemporary France by Gabriel Hanotaux (1907)
"The lefts accept the Constituent Power.— Second Reading of the Municipal Electorate
Bill.—Constitutional proposals.—First Republican Victory; urgency voted ..."
2. A General Abridgment and Digest of American Law: With Occasional Notes and by Nathan Dane (1824)
"... the (lefts- on the said decree; administrators of an administra- CH. 149.
tor, who owed said balance to the estate, the pit- as administra- Art. 2. tor ..."
3. Proceedings of the National School of Dental Technics by American Institute of Dental Teachers (1897)
"BIGHTS AND lefts. There is a distinct division in operating instruments, known
as Rights and lefts. Among excavators we have two forms of rights and lefts. ..."
4. The Comic History of the United States: From a Period Prior to the Discovery by John D. Sherwood (1870)
"Rights and lefts. WHAT Stewart's New York emporium is to shoppers for goods, the
Constitution of the United States is to shoppers for civil and political ..."
5. The Boy's Yearly Book by John Tillotson (1863)
"... were rights and lefts, and therefore the allusion in Shakespeare, which Dr.
Johnson regards ae supremely ridiculous, waa a mere matter of fact. ..."