Chapter VIII

used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one

From this reading THE MEXICAN CAPITAL I It was another four days’ journey to Mexico City--a journey directly eastward and a trifle skyward.

on the subject of; concerning

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

the clay from which adobe bricks are made

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

at all times; all the time and on every occasion

From this reading In reality, it is a land of everything--of sandy wastes, of rugged mountains, of rank tropical jungles, of temperate valleys--of lowlands bathed in moist tropic heat, of midlands where strawberries are always ripe, even of highlands swept eternally by chilling winds.

a native or inhabitant of the United States

From this reading To the stay-at-home American, Mexico is only a sun-scorched desert.

the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together

From this reading THE MEXICAN CAPITAL I It was another four days’ journey to Mexico City--a journey directly eastward and a trifle skyward.

one more of the same kind, or a different one

From this reading THE MEXICAN CAPITAL I It was another four days’ journey to Mexico City--a journey directly eastward and a trifle skyward.

the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun

From this reading In reality, it is a land of everything--of sandy wastes, of rugged mountains, of rank tropical jungles, of temperate valleys--of lowlands bathed in moist tropic heat, of midlands where strawberries are always ripe, even of highlands swept eternally by chilling winds.

in or near a particular place or position

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

a light shade of blue

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

installation from which a military force initiates operations

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

past form of “bathe” — cleanse the entire body

From this reading In reality, it is a land of everything--of sandy wastes, of rugged mountains, of rank tropical jungles, of temperate valleys--of lowlands bathed in moist tropic heat, of midlands where strawberries are always ripe, even of highlands swept eternally by chilling winds.

on the far side of; further than

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

showing who or what does the action

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

any succulent plant of the family Cactaceae native chiefly to arid regions of the New World and usually having spines

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

a stick that people can lean on to help them walk

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

assets available for use in the production of further assets

From this reading THE MEXICAN CAPITAL I It was another four days’ journey to Mexico City--a journey directly eastward and a trifle skyward.

provoking fear terror

From this reading In reality, it is a land of everything--of sandy wastes, of rugged mountains, of rank tropical jungles, of temperate valleys--of lowlands bathed in moist tropic heat, of midlands where strawberries are always ripe, even of highlands swept eternally by chilling winds.

one of the groups of Christians who have their own beliefs and forms of worship

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts

From this reading THE MEXICAN CAPITAL I It was another four days’ journey to Mexico City--a journey directly eastward and a trifle skyward.

the weather in some location averaged over some long period of time

From this reading Mexico is a mountainous country--so loftily mountainous that one has only to travel upward to pass in turn through every variety of climate and every type of landscape.

a grouping of a number of similar things

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

of or relating to a coast

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

an active volcano in southwestern Mexico

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

following accepted customs and proprieties

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

a politically organized body of people under a single government

From this reading Mexico is a mountainous country--so loftily mountainous that one has only to travel upward to pass in turn through every variety of climate and every type of landscape.

inflected form of “creep” — move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

the time during which someone's life continues

From this reading THE MEXICAN CAPITAL I It was another four days’ journey to Mexico City--a journey directly eastward and a trifle skyward.

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From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

greatly pleasing or entertaining

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch

From this reading To the stay-at-home American, Mexico is only a sun-scorched desert.

providing no shelter or sustenance

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

without deviation

From this reading THE MEXICAN CAPITAL I It was another four days’ journey to Mexico City--a journey directly eastward and a trifle skyward.

separated in space or coming from or going to a distance

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

a heavy rain

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

past form of “dwarf” — make appear small by comparison

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

moving toward the east

From this reading THE MEXICAN CAPITAL I It was another four days’ journey to Mexico City--a journey directly eastward and a trifle skyward.

continuing forever or indefinitely

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

for a limitless time

From this reading In reality, it is a land of everything--of sandy wastes, of rugged mountains, of rank tropical jungles, of temperate valleys--of lowlands bathed in moist tropic heat, of midlands where strawberries are always ripe, even of highlands swept eternally by chilling winds.

divisible by two

From this reading In reality, it is a land of everything--of sandy wastes, of rugged mountains, of rank tropical jungles, of temperate valleys--of lowlands bathed in moist tropic heat, of midlands where strawberries are always ripe, even of highlands swept eternally by chilling winds.

all the members of a group, with none left out

From this reading Mexico is a mountainous country--so loftily mountainous that one has only to travel upward to pass in turn through every variety of climate and every type of landscape.

all things; all of a situation

From this reading In reality, it is a land of everything--of sandy wastes, of rugged mountains, of rank tropical jungles, of temperate valleys--of lowlands bathed in moist tropic heat, of midlands where strawberries are always ripe, even of highlands swept eternally by chilling winds.

plural of “expanse” — a wide scope

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

preceding all others in time or space or degree

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

having or given a form or shape

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one

From this reading THE MEXICAN CAPITAL I It was another four days’ journey to Mexico City--a journey directly eastward and a trifle skyward.

showing where something starts, or who sent it

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

inflected form of “give” — cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

depressingly dark

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

having the deep slightly brownish color of gold

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

a city in southwestern Mexico; a popular health resort and site of architecture from the Spanish colonial era

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

plural of “gully” — deep ditch cut by running water (especially after a prolonged downpour)

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

the form of “have” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading Mexico is a mountainous country--so loftily mountainous that one has only to travel upward to pass in turn through every variety of climate and every type of landscape.

a form of energy that is transferred by a difference in temperature

From this reading In reality, it is a land of everything--of sandy wastes, of rugged mountains, of rank tropical jungles, of temperate valleys--of lowlands bathed in moist tropic heat, of midlands where strawberries are always ripe, even of highlands swept eternally by chilling winds.

greater than normal in degree or intensity or amount

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

a mountainous region of northern Scotland famous for its rugged beauty; known for the style of dress (the kilt and tartan) and the clan system (now in disuse)

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

the line at which the sky and Earth appear to meet

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

used of physical heat; having a high or higher than desirable temperature or giving off heat or feeling or causing a sensation of heat or burning

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

plural of “hut” — temporary military shelter

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb

From this reading THE MEXICAN CAPITAL I It was another four days’ journey to Mexico City--a journey directly eastward and a trifle skyward.

inside something, or within a place, period, or state

From this reading Mexico is a mountainous country--so loftily mountainous that one has only to travel upward to pass in turn through every variety of climate and every type of landscape.

moving to the inside of something

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading Mexico is a mountainous country--so loftily mountainous that one has only to travel upward to pass in turn through every variety of climate and every type of landscape.

a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned

From this reading THE MEXICAN CAPITAL I It was another four days’ journey to Mexico City--a journey directly eastward and a trifle skyward.

having a sharply uneven surface or outline

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

undertake a journey or trip

From this reading THE MEXICAN CAPITAL I It was another four days’ journey to Mexico City--a journey directly eastward and a trifle skyward.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

plural of “jungle” — a location marked by an intense competition and struggle for survival

From this reading In reality, it is a land of everything--of sandy wastes, of rugged mountains, of rank tropical jungles, of temperate valleys--of lowlands bathed in moist tropic heat, of midlands where strawberries are always ripe, even of highlands swept eternally by chilling winds.

coming only to the ankle or knee

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

the land on which real estate is located

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

an expanse of scenery that can be seen in a single view

From this reading Mexico is a mountainous country--so loftily mountainous that one has only to travel upward to pass in turn through every variety of climate and every type of landscape.

superlative of “large” — above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

diode such that light emitted at a p-n junction is proportional to the bias current; color depends on the material used

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

in a lofty manner

From this reading Mexico is a mountainous country--so loftily mountainous that one has only to travel upward to pass in turn through every variety of climate and every type of landscape.

lacking companions or companionship

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

the southern part of Scotland that is not mountainous

From this reading In reality, it is a land of everything--of sandy wastes, of rugged mountains, of rank tropical jungles, of temperate valleys--of lowlands bathed in moist tropic heat, of midlands where strawberries are always ripe, even of highlands swept eternally by chilling winds.

tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

a native or inhabitant of Mexico

From this reading THE MEXICAN CAPITAL I It was another four days’ journey to Mexico City--a journey directly eastward and a trifle skyward.

a republic in southern North America; became independent from Spain in 1810

From this reading THE MEXICAN CAPITAL I It was another four days’ journey to Mexico City--a journey directly eastward and a trifle skyward.

possessive form of “mexico” — a republic in southern North America; became independent from Spain in 1810

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

plural of “midland” — a town in west central Texas

From this reading In reality, it is a land of everything--of sandy wastes, of rugged mountains, of rank tropical jungles, of temperate valleys--of lowlands bathed in moist tropic heat, of midlands where strawberries are always ripe, even of highlands swept eternally by chilling winds.

slightly wet

From this reading In reality, it is a land of everything--of sandy wastes, of rugged mountains, of rank tropical jungles, of temperate valleys--of lowlands bathed in moist tropic heat, of midlands where strawberries are always ripe, even of highlands swept eternally by chilling winds.

used to form the superlative

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

having hills and crags

From this reading Mexico is a mountainous country--so loftily mountainous that one has only to travel upward to pass in turn through every variety of climate and every type of landscape.

plural of “mountain” — a land mass that projects well above its surroundings; higher than a hill

From this reading In reality, it is a land of everything--of sandy wastes, of rugged mountains, of rank tropical jungles, of temperate valleys--of lowlands bathed in moist tropic heat, of midlands where strawberries are always ripe, even of highlands swept eternally by chilling winds.

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading Mexico is a mountainous country--so loftily mountainous that one has only to travel upward to pass in turn through every variety of climate and every type of landscape.

used to mean any person in general, including the speaker

From this reading Mexico is a mountainous country--so loftily mountainous that one has only to travel upward to pass in turn through every variety of climate and every type of landscape.

and nothing more

From this reading Mexico is a mountainous country--so loftily mountainous that one has only to travel upward to pass in turn through every variety of climate and every type of landscape.

round yellow to orange fruit of any of several citrus trees

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

during or for the length of one night

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

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From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

go across or through

From this reading Mexico is a mountainous country--so loftily mountainous that one has only to travel upward to pass in turn through every variety of climate and every type of landscape.

the time that has elapsed

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

plural of “peak” — the most extreme possible amount or value

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

plural of “peon” — a laborer who is obliged to do menial work

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

plural of “plain” — extensive tract of level open land

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

a relatively flat highland

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

plural of “pool” — an excavation that is (usually) filled with water

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

a purple color or pigment

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

(of weather) wet by periods of rain

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

a row or line of people (especially soldiers or police) standing abreast of one another

From this reading In reality, it is a land of everything--of sandy wastes, of rugged mountains, of rank tropical jungles, of temperate valleys--of lowlands bathed in moist tropic heat, of midlands where strawberries are always ripe, even of highlands swept eternally by chilling winds.

all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you

From this reading In reality, it is a land of everything--of sandy wastes, of rugged mountains, of rank tropical jungles, of temperate valleys--of lowlands bathed in moist tropic heat, of midlands where strawberries are always ripe, even of highlands swept eternally by chilling winds.

a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

having a rim or a rim of a specified kind

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used

From this reading In reality, it is a land of everything--of sandy wastes, of rugged mountains, of rank tropical jungles, of temperate valleys--of lowlands bathed in moist tropic heat, of midlands where strawberries are always ripe, even of highlands swept eternally by chilling winds.

an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

uttered with a trill

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

sturdy and strong in constitution or construction; enduring

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

of hair color; pale yellowish to yellowish brown

From this reading In reality, it is a land of everything--of sandy wastes, of rugged mountains, of rank tropical jungles, of temperate valleys--of lowlands bathed in moist tropic heat, of midlands where strawberries are always ripe, even of highlands swept eternally by chilling winds.

a period of the year marked by special events or activities in some field

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

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From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

plural of “shadow” — shade within clear boundaries

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

the atmosphere and outer space as viewed from the earth

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

directed toward heaven or the sky

From this reading THE MEXICAN CAPITAL I It was another four days’ journey to Mexico City--a journey directly eastward and a trifle skyward.

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From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

for that reason; with the result that

From this reading Mexico is a mountainous country--so loftily mountainous that one has only to travel upward to pass in turn through every variety of climate and every type of landscape.

plural of “space” — the unlimited expanse in which everything is located

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

the season of growth

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

a person who seldom goes anywhere; one not given to wandering or travel

From this reading To the stay-at-home American, Mexico is only a sun-scorched desert.

plural of “strawberry” — sweet fleshy red fruit

From this reading In reality, it is a land of everything--of sandy wastes, of rugged mountains, of rank tropical jungles, of temperate valleys--of lowlands bathed in moist tropic heat, of midlands where strawberries are always ripe, even of highlands swept eternally by chilling winds.

act of expanding by lengthening or widening

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

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From this reading To the stay-at-home American, Mexico is only a sun-scorched desert.

of surpassing excellence

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

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From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

the process of the sweat glands of the skin secreting a salty fluid

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

possessing sweep

From this reading In reality, it is a land of everything--of sandy wastes, of rugged mountains, of rank tropical jungles, of temperate valleys--of lowlands bathed in moist tropic heat, of midlands where strawberries are always ripe, even of highlands swept eternally by chilling winds.

(of weather or climate) free from extremes; mild; or characteristic of such weather or climate

From this reading In reality, it is a land of everything--of sandy wastes, of rugged mountains, of rank tropical jungles, of temperate valleys--of lowlands bathed in moist tropic heat, of midlands where strawberries are always ripe, even of highlands swept eternally by chilling winds.

used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt

From this reading Mexico is a mountainous country--so loftily mountainous that one has only to travel upward to pass in turn through every variety of climate and every type of landscape.

used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind

From this reading THE MEXICAN CAPITAL I It was another four days’ journey to Mexico City--a journey directly eastward and a trifle skyward.

from one end or side of something to the other

From this reading Mexico is a mountainous country--so loftily mountainous that one has only to travel upward to pass in turn through every variety of climate and every type of landscape.

in every part of a place, or for the whole of a period

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

very small

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive

From this reading THE MEXICAN CAPITAL I It was another four days’ journey to Mexico City--a journey directly eastward and a trifle skyward.

highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

in the direction of

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically

From this reading Mexico is a mountainous country--so loftily mountainous that one has only to travel upward to pass in turn through every variety of climate and every type of landscape.

plural of “tree” — a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

a cold pudding made of layers of sponge cake spread with fruit or jelly; may be decorated with nuts, cream, or chocolate

From this reading THE MEXICAN CAPITAL I It was another four days’ journey to Mexico City--a journey directly eastward and a trifle skyward.

relating to or situated in or characteristic of the tropics (the region on either side of the equator)

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

relating to or situated in or characteristic of the tropics (the region on either side of the equator)

From this reading In reality, it is a land of everything--of sandy wastes, of rugged mountains, of rank tropical jungles, of temperate valleys--of lowlands bathed in moist tropic heat, of midlands where strawberries are always ripe, even of highlands swept eternally by chilling winds.

change orientation or direction, also in the abstract sense

From this reading Mexico is a mountainous country--so loftily mountainous that one has only to travel upward to pass in turn through every variety of climate and every type of landscape.

the time of day immediately following sunset

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

a subdivision of a particular kind of thing

From this reading Mexico is a mountainous country--so loftily mountainous that one has only to travel upward to pass in turn through every variety of climate and every type of landscape.

directed up

From this reading Mexico is a mountainous country--so loftily mountainous that one has only to travel upward to pass in turn through every variety of climate and every type of landscape.

plural of “valley” — a long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river

From this reading In reality, it is a land of everything--of sandy wastes, of rugged mountains, of rank tropical jungles, of temperate valleys--of lowlands bathed in moist tropic heat, of midlands where strawberries are always ripe, even of highlands swept eternally by chilling winds.

a collection containing a variety of sorts of things

From this reading Mexico is a mountainous country--so loftily mountainous that one has only to travel upward to pass in turn through every variety of climate and every type of landscape.

unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

plural of “village” — a community of people smaller than a town

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

a fissure in the earth's crust (or in the surface of some other planet) through which molten lava and gases erupt

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

past form of “wade” — walk (through relatively shallow water)

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading THE MEXICAN CAPITAL I It was another four days’ journey to Mexico City--a journey directly eastward and a trifle skyward.

plural of “waste” — any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted

From this reading In reality, it is a land of everything--of sandy wastes, of rugged mountains, of rank tropical jungles, of temperate valleys--of lowlands bathed in moist tropic heat, of midlands where strawberries are always ripe, even of highlands swept eternally by chilling winds.

how something is done or how it happens

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

in or at the place that

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

a Caucasian

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

plural of “wind” — air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure

From this reading In reality, it is a land of everything--of sandy wastes, of rugged mountains, of rank tropical jungles, of temperate valleys--of lowlands bathed in moist tropic heat, of midlands where strawberries are always ripe, even of highlands swept eternally by chilling winds.

characteristic of or occurring in winter

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

in the company of; together with

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.

of the color intermediate between green and orange in the color spectrum; of something resembling the color of an egg yolk

From this reading The road led from Manzanillo through the hot coastal plain--through palm-land and swamp-land where sweating, semi-naked _peons_ waded knee-deep in pools formed overnight by the first downpour of a tropic rainy season--to Colima, a conventional little city at the base of a snow-tipped volcano--into the highlands through tortuous defiles where the cane gave way to maize and the jungle-growth to cactus--past tiny villages of adobe huts clustering about a huge white church that dwarfed the rugged gullies--into a climate of eternal spring--to Guadalajara, the second largest and the most delightful city of the republic, where orange trees were golden throughout the year--and beyond, to the wide expanses of Mexico’s high plateau--to a land of vast, gloomy spaces and lonely grandeur--the grandeur of rolling yellow plains stretching to a distant horizon rimmed with jagged peaks, where at twilight the purple shadows crept upward toward an azure sky--to a country desolate and superb, and a trifle wintry.