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Definition of Nerving
1. a type of veterinary operation [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nerving
Literary usage of Nerving
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"... That which was made, or had beginning, but never truly is;" it nerving not a
permanent, but successive or flowing duration. ..."
2. An American Anthology, 1787-1900: Selections Illustrating the Editor's by Edmund Clarence Stedman (1900)
"nerving simplest thought and deed, Freshening time with truth and good, Consecrating
art and song, Holy book and pilgrim track, Hurling floods of tyrant ..."
3. The Horseman's Manual: Being a Treatise on Soundness, the Law of Warranty by Robert Smith Surtees (1832)
"Several eminent veterinary surgeons were called, who stated that the operation
of nerving consisted in the division of a nerve leading ..."
4. My Story of the War: A Woman's Narrative of Four Years Personal Experience by Mary Ashton Rice Livermore (1890)
"... OVER ME — nerving MYSELF FOR THE WORK — TOUCHING SCENES. Mrs. Hoge and myself
visit the Hospitals of St. Louis — Our first Experience — Boisterousness ..."
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