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Definition of Pyros
1. pyro [n] - See also: pyro
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pyros
Literary usage of Pyros
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas ( Hobbes (1845)
"pyros comes quickly in, and o'er him stands, And wounds him in the belly. ...
But Thoas then slew pyros with his spear, That pass'd his breast till in his ..."
2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1816)
"... goes secretly to pyros, betrays his master, and demands for the price of his
... throne: "• But pyros thro' the flimsy veil descried All that ambition ..."
3. Medical Lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science : Containing a Concise by Robley Dunglison (1848)
"DIGS'pyros LOTUS, apparently from i,o(, ' divine,' and 7iu(jo,-,'wheat,' but why
is not clear; ... DIOS'pyros VIRGINIA'NA, Lotus Virginia'na, ..."
4. Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by William Robertson Smith (1896)
"The best kind of ebony is yielded by the Dim- pyros ... There is every reason
for believing that the ebony afforded by the Dio»pyros ..."
5. Final Report of Investigations Among the Indians of the Southwestern United by Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier (1892)
"... testimony of Juan Domínguez de Mendoza: "Y en particular en tiempo del Sr.
General D. Fernando Villanueva en la Provincia de los pyros por traidores y ..."
6. Flora Cestrica: An Herborizing Companion for the Young Botanists of Chester by William Darlington (1853)
"[Gr. Z>LS,dios, Jupiter, and pyros, fruit; a rather fanciful name for such fruit.
... DIOS'pyros, L. 1.0. ..."
7. A Complete pronouncing medical dictionary by Joseph Thomas (1885)
"A hard, heavy, black wood, the heart-wood of several species of Diospyros,
especially of Dios'pyros Eb'enum, which abounds in Ceylon, ..."
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