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Definition of Meagres
1. meagre [n] - See also: meagre
Lexicographical Neighbors of Meagres
Literary usage of Meagres
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The War Office, Past and Present by Owen Wheeler (1914)
"... Victorious Return to the Court of Gargantua after extirpating the Soupe-meagres
of Bouille-land." The Duke is here represented as being received by his ..."
2. The Fisheries of the Adriatic and the Fish Thereof: A Report of the Austro by G. L. Faber (1883)
"... Weevers, Scorpions, and the Poor in spring and autumn; meagres in spring and
summer; Gar-pike, Whiting, Horse Mackerel, and Lizza in summer; ..."
3. Guide to the Gallery of Fishes in the Department of Zoology of the British by William George Ridewood (1908)
"... another small family with a single genus, Sillago, are small fishes related
to the meagres of the next family, ..."
4. Anecdotes, Religious, Moral, and Entertaining: Alphabetically Arranged and by Charles Buck (1841)
"... which dilutes the doctrines, softens the precepts, lowers the sanctions, and
mutilates the scheme of Christianity ; which meagres it in undefined ..."
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