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Definition of Poofs
1. poof [n] - See also: poof
Lexicographical Neighbors of Poofs
Literary usage of Poofs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856: From Gales and by United States Congress, Thomas Hart Benton (1859)
"Mr. poofs Resolution—Nullification. tionable right to judge of its infractions,
and that a nullification by those sovereignties of all unauthorized acts ..."
2. The reader's handbook of allusions, references, plots and stories by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1882)
"... now no moro let poofs tell. He« lift the »>ul to heaven. Pope, SI. Cecilia'!
Das (1709). Orpheus of Highwaymen, John Gay, author of 77«; ..."
3. The Great Case of Tithes: Truly Stated, Clearly Open'd, and Fully Resolv'd by Anthony Pearson (1720)
"... Virtue of the Spi- « rit, is promis'd in the Prophecies that concern the
Timet * M. poofs Annot. on John iii. •>. 'By Water, then we * Thus 'tis twofold ..."
4. The British Palladium: Or, Annual Miscellany of Literature and Science for (1764)
"FROM tirée Equations f fina, bj Name, One poofs Cap Author, known to Fane ; And
from thru more J ..."
5. Belgravia by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1868)
"... and Professor poofs—you remember he was a dancing-master at Nashville, lectured
on electro-biology at Portland, Maine, and then kept a candy-store at ..."
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