Noun
polyvinyl alcohol fibers
Usage- US usage
- Uncountable
Adjective
Produced by, or originating in, wine.
Usage- not-comparable
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To return then to the great chanel, and thread of our Diſcourse, the examples and experiment which I have already inſiſted upon in confirmation of the reaſons which I have alleged, do dearly demonſtrate, that the bodies which draw the atomes diſpersed in the aire, attract unto themſelves with a greater power and energy ſuch as are of their own nature, than ſuch as are heterogeneous, and of a ſtrange nature; As wine doth the vinal ſpirits;[…]
Their vinal Steams evaporating, they / Felt of their uſual Vigour a Decay;[…]
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But, alas, the red wine which he sent to the boatmen took the taste of the bargeman’s wife, a red-faced sot of a woman. She drank it to the last drop, and then flew to arms and almost murdered a servant wench with oyster-shells. Then she rushed on deck, tackled her husband, and tried to pitch him overboard. There is vinal energy for you.
Noun
Prosopis ruscifolia
Usage- Uncountable