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Definition of Multipede

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Multipede

Literary usage of Multipede

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... With charms of gay machinery surprise, Scenes over scenes, and stage on stage arise, 150 Lost in the glory of descending skies. Not so the multipede ..."

2. A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language ...by John Walker by John Walker (1810)
"... a. having Multiformity, mûl-tè-for'mè-tè. s. diversity of stripes [many sides multipede, ..."

3. A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language: In by John Walker (1822)
"multipede, m&l'te-ped. >. An insect with Multiple, mal'te-pl. s, A number which eon- tains another several times; as, nine is the multiple of three, ..."

4. Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839 by Fanny Kemble (1864)
"multipede you must be satisfied, for I can tell you no more. I went a little farther, as the nursery rhyme says, and met with a snake; and, not being able ..."

5. The Natural History of Pliny by Pliny, John Bostock, Henry Thomas Riley (1890)
"... is mostly without foundation.—B. 29 This is mentioned by .Elian, Anim. Nat . B. Xv. c. 26.—B. The scolopendra is cue of the multipede insects. ..."

6. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... With charms of gay machinery surprise, Scenes over scenes, and stage on stage arise, 150 Lost in the glory of descending skies. Not so the multipede ..."

7. A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language ...by John Walker by John Walker (1810)
"... a. having Multiformity, mûl-tè-for'mè-tè. s. diversity of stripes [many sides multipede, ..."

8. A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language: In by John Walker (1822)
"multipede, m&l'te-ped. >. An insect with Multiple, mal'te-pl. s, A number which eon- tains another several times; as, nine is the multiple of three, ..."

9. Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839 by Fanny Kemble (1864)
"multipede you must be satisfied, for I can tell you no more. I went a little farther, as the nursery rhyme says, and met with a snake; and, not being able ..."

10. The Natural History of Pliny by Pliny, John Bostock, Henry Thomas Riley (1890)
"... is mostly without foundation.—B. 29 This is mentioned by .Elian, Anim. Nat . B. Xv. c. 26.—B. The scolopendra is cue of the multipede insects. ..."

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