Lexicographical Neighbors of Maccabaw
Literary usage of Maccabaw
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1830)
"... and if we catch him again, we shall certainly crack him, or bury him alive in
a pinch of snuff—and of all deaths the most painful is that of maccabaw. ..."
2. David Balfour by Robert Louis Stevenson (1905)
"Him I found already at his desk and already bedabbled with maccabaw, in the same
ante-room where I ..."
3. Colombia: Being a Geographical, Statistical, Agricultural, Commercial, and by Alexander Walker (1822)
"... for the production of a particular sort of tobacco, called tobacco of Maracaibo,
from which the best sort of snuff, vulgarly called maccabaw, is made. ..."
4. The Universal Receipt Book: Being a Compendious Repository of Practical by Priscilla Homespun (1818)
"... to this add one-twelfth part of the finest roseate rappee, and a small quantity
of the real maccabaw; of betony, eye-bright, marjoram, thyine-syriac, ..."
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