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Definition of Thinnest
1. thin [adj] - See also: thin
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thinnest
Literary usage of Thinnest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Natural History of Pliny by Pliny, John Bostock, Henry Thomas Riley (1855)
"THICKEST BLOOD : THOSE THE BLOOD OF WHICH IS THE thinnest I ANIMALS WHICH HATE
NO BLOOD. Those animals in which the blood is more abundant and of an ..."
2. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"... and it may easily be seen that the thinnest strokes cut upon the plain surface
will throw some light on the subject or design, and if these strokes are ..."
3. University of Toronto Studies by University of Toronto (1900)
"So treated even the thinnest parts retain their form in summer heat. A second
similar model was made to show the mesoderm and ..."
4. Baptist Missionary Magazine by American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (1902)
"The thinnest Steed in Burma /"\NE evening I had occasion to visit a ~' village
a few miles from our station and as the road thither was a good one I decided ..."
5. Portrait Miniatures: From the Time of Holbein 1531 to that of Sir William by George Charles Williamson (1897)
"... in the thinnest of colour superimposed upon a solid back of paint. He is
notable not only for his miniature work, but also for his drawings in crayon, ..."
6. A Little Gateway to Science: Hexapod Stories by Edith Marion Patch (1920)
"So, being used to this trick, Ann Gusti could do it just as well with everybody
watching her The thinnest living skeleton. as she could out in the field ..."