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Definition of Socles
1. socle [n] - See also: socle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Socles
Literary usage of Socles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoir of the Dangers and Ice of the North Atlantic Ocean by George William Blunt, William C. Redfield, Alexander Dallas Bache (1848)
"DESCRIPTION OF THE socles and Banks of the North—TO THE NORTHWARD OF LATITUDE 50
DEGREES. NUN ROCK, off Cape Rath, in lat. 58° 524', and long. ..."
2. Report on the Medusae Collected by the U.S. Fish Commission Steamer by Jesse Walter Fewkes (1886)
"The zone of tentacular socles (soc. ta.) is composed of twenty-two gelatinous
... are twenty-two in number; they lie between the tentacular socles in the ..."
3. The Royal Cookery Book: (le Livre de Cuisine) by Jules Gouffé, Alphonse Gouffé (1869)
"REMARKS ON socles AND ON THE MOULDING OF ASPIC JELLIES 0»i socles in General ...
They have been made of all kinds of substances; but the best socles to use ..."
4. Herodotus by Herodotus (1922)
"Thus spoke socles, the envoy from Corinth ; Hippias answered him, calling the
same gods as socles had invoked to witness that verily the Corinthians would ..."
5. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1803)
"The author now erects an isolated column (more than three hundred feet high) in
the Greek style, on double socles. At the centre and angles of these socles, ..."
6. Excavations at Pylos in Elis by John E. Coleman (1986)
"There is no evidence that stone was ever cut or dressed for building purposes.2 Sandstone
was the predominant material for the socles, but limestone also ..."
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