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Definition of Saucers

1. saucer [n] - See also: saucer

Lexicographical Neighbors of Saucers

Literary usage of Saucers

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

1. A Systematic Arrangement of British Plants: With an Easy Introduction to the by William Withering (1801)
"L, saucers brown black, with a white border ; rather con- ... saucers numerous, near together, brown black, convex when fully grown. On rocks in Yorkshire. ..."

2. An Arrangement of British Plants: According to the Latest Improvements of by William Withering (1830)
"saucers green within, grey on the outside, sessile, flat or concave, ... The plants without saucers have numerous granulations in their substance. Dill. ..."

3. The Potter's Craft: A Practical Guide for the Studio and Workshop by Charles Fergus Binns (1910)
"In factory working, one man makes nothing but cups, another saucers and another plates, ... saucers and plates cannot be made in this manner; first, ..."

4. Manual of Plant Diseases by Paul Sorauer, Gustav Lindau, Ludwig Reh, Frances Dorrance (1922)
"No matter whether the pots be watered from above or by soaking up water from the saucers, the soil will almost always take up too much water. ..."

5. A Popular Account of the Ancient Egyptians by John Gardner Wilkinson (1854)
"... and others may come under the denomination of beakers and saucers. Of these, the former were frequently made of alabaster, with a round base, ..."

6. A Systematic Arrangement of British Plants: With an Easy Introduction to the by William Withering (1812)
"Crust sea-green, blackish when old, not always to be found, saucers yellow ... L. saucers pale brick colour, nearly flat: border pale, cupula'ris. brown ..."

7. The Architecture, Stratification, and Pottery of Lerna III by Martha Heath Wiencke (2000)
"VARIETIES OF DECORATION At tin- same timi: that new lype 1 saucers are ... The average proportions of rim- painted dark-painted type 2 saucers widen ..."

8. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1883)
"splashed with silver buttons, some of them as big as small saucers, and our grimy, oily engineer of the day before ! The vessel was a very Al of its kind, ..."

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