Chapter XXI · “So Careful of the Type.”

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

From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_

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From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_

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

From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_

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

From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_

any thing at all

From this reading The really humorous faults in the setting up of anything I have ever written have been very few.

someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another

From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_

process for producing permanent prints in a carbon pigment

From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_

approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value

From this reading It would obviously be impossible to make a chapter of the average length out of such a record.

used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses

From this reading It would obviously be impossible to make a chapter of the average length out of such a record.

the past participle of “be”

From this reading The really humorous faults in the setting up of anything I have ever written have been very few.

the supreme effort one can make

From this reading IF this chapter is a short one, it is so for the best of reasons: it is meant to record some blunders of printers and others which impressed themselves upon me.

plural of “blunder” — an embarrassing mistake

From this reading IF this chapter is a short one, it is so for the best of reasons: it is meant to record some blunders of printers and others which impressed themselves upon me.

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From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_

a subdivision of a written work; usually numbered and titled

From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_

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From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_

a performance of music by players or singers not involving theatrical staging

From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_

a very intense and uncontrolled fire

From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_

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

From this reading In the printing of the original edition of my novel _Daireen_ one of the most notable occurred in a first proof.

an artistic form of nonverbal communication

From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_

a police officer who investigates crimes

From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_

an authoritative declaration

From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_

the form in which a text (especially a printed book) is published

From this reading In the printing of the original edition of my novel _Daireen_ one of the most notable occurred in a first proof.

plural of “editor” — a person responsible for the editorial aspects of publication; the person who determines the final content of a text (especially of a newspaper or magazine)

From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_

an activity that is diverting and that holds the attention

From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_

absolutely necessary; vitally necessary

From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_

at any time

From this reading The really humorous faults in the setting up of anything I have ever written have been very few.

plural of “fault” — a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention

From this reading The really humorous faults in the setting up of anything I have ever written have been very few.

all the animal life in a particular region or period

From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_

a competitor thought likely to win

From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_

a notable achievement

From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_

a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by “a”; a small but indefinite number

From this reading The really humorous faults in the setting up of anything I have ever written have been very few.

preceding all others in time or space or degree

From this reading In the printing of the original edition of my novel _Daireen_ one of the most notable occurred in a first proof.

all the plant life in a particular region or period

From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_

intended to be given to, or used by, somebody

From this reading IF this chapter is a short one, it is so for the best of reasons: it is meant to record some blunders of printers and others which impressed themselves upon me.

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From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_

a community of people smaller than a village

From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_

used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses

From this reading The really humorous faults in the setting up of anything I have ever written have been very few.

belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned

From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_

of or relating to the cultivation of plants

From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_

full of or characterized by humor

From this reading The really humorous faults in the setting up of anything I have ever written have been very few.

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

From this reading The really humorous faults in the setting up of anything I have ever written have been very few.

on condition that; in the event that

From this reading IF this chapter is a short one, it is so for the best of reasons: it is meant to record some blunders of printers and others which impressed themselves upon me.

not capable of occurring or being accomplished or dealt with

From this reading It would obviously be impossible to make a chapter of the average length out of such a record.

deeply or markedly affected or influenced

From this reading IF this chapter is a short one, it is so for the best of reasons: it is meant to record some blunders of printers and others which impressed themselves upon me.

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

From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_

the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave

From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_

people of Ireland or of Irish extraction

From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_

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

From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_

a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned

From this reading IF this chapter is a short one, it is so for the best of reasons: it is meant to record some blunders of printers and others which impressed themselves upon me.

a distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list

From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_

a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom

From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_

the land on which real estate is located

From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_

the linear extent in space from one end to the other; the longest dimension of something that is fixed in place

From this reading It would obviously be impossible to make a chapter of the average length out of such a record.

engage in

From this reading It would obviously be impossible to make a chapter of the average length out of such a record.

the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition

From this reading IF this chapter is a short one, it is so for the best of reasons: it is meant to record some blunders of printers and others which impressed themselves upon me.

inflected form of “mean” — mean or intend to express or convey

From this reading IF this chapter is a short one, it is so for the best of reasons: it is meant to record some blunders of printers and others which impressed themselves upon me.

plural of “moor” — one of the Muslim people of north Africa; of mixed Arab and Berber descent; converted to Islam in the 8th century; conqueror of Spain in the 8th century

From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_

(comparative of “much” used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree

From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_

used to form the superlative

From this reading In the printing of the original edition of my novel _Daireen_ one of the most notable occurred in a first proof.

belonging to the person speaking

From this reading In the printing of the original edition of my novel _Daireen_ one of the most notable occurred in a first proof.

widely known and esteemed

From this reading In the printing of the original edition of my novel _Daireen_ one of the most notable occurred in a first proof.

an extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story

From this reading In the printing of the original edition of my novel _Daireen_ one of the most notable occurred in a first proof.

unmistakably (“plain” is often used informally for “plainly”)

From this reading It would obviously be impossible to make a chapter of the average length out of such a record.

inflected form of “occur” — come to pass

From this reading In the printing of the original edition of my novel _Daireen_ one of the most notable occurred in a first proof.

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_

a sign of something about to happen

From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_

used to mean any person in general, including the speaker

From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_

preceding all others in time or being as first made or performed

From this reading In the printing of the original edition of my novel _Daireen_ one of the most notable occurred in a first proof.

not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied

From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_

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

From this reading IF this chapter is a short one, it is so for the best of reasons: it is meant to record some blunders of printers and others which impressed themselves upon me.

not allowed to continue to bat or run

From this reading It would obviously be impossible to make a chapter of the average length out of such a record.

traveling or passing over land

From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_

any place of complete bliss and delight and peace

From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_

a point located with respect to surface features of some region

From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_

a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines

From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_

plural of “printer” — someone whose occupation is printing

From this reading IF this chapter is a short one, it is so for the best of reasons: it is meant to record some blunders of printers and others which impressed themselves upon me.

text handwritten in the style of printed matter

From this reading In the printing of the original edition of my novel _Daireen_ one of the most notable occurred in a first proof.

any factual evidence that helps to establish the truth of something

From this reading In the printing of the original edition of my novel _Daireen_ one of the most notable occurred in a first proof.

in accordance with truth or fact or reality

From this reading The really humorous faults in the setting up of anything I have ever written have been very few.

plural of “reason” — a rational motive for a belief or action

From this reading IF this chapter is a short one, it is so for the best of reasons: it is meant to record some blunders of printers and others which impressed themselves upon me.

anything (such as a document or a phonograph record or a photograph) providing permanent evidence of or information about past events

From this reading IF this chapter is a short one, it is so for the best of reasons: it is meant to record some blunders of printers and others which impressed themselves upon me.

-ing form of “regard” — deem to be

From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_

unusual or striking

From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_

an established line of travel or access

From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_

a former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia; established in 1922; included Russia and 14 other soviet socialist republics (Ukraine and Byelorussia and others); officially dissolved 31 December 1991

From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_

the context and environment in which something is set

From this reading The really humorous faults in the setting up of anything I have ever written have been very few.

primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration

From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_

for that reason; with the result that

From this reading IF this chapter is a short one, it is so for the best of reasons: it is meant to record some blunders of printers and others which impressed themselves upon me.

(quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity

From this reading IF this chapter is a short one, it is so for the best of reasons: it is meant to record some blunders of printers and others which impressed themselves upon me.

exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play

From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_

not in physical motion

From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_

a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program

From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_

plant fiber used e.g. for making baskets and hats or as fodder

From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_

an event that accomplishes its intended purpose

From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_

of the kind already mentioned

From this reading It would obviously be impossible to make a chapter of the average length out of such a record.

an idea that is suggested

From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_

an Apocryphal book consisting of text added to the Book of Daniel

From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_

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

From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_

used when the people doing the action are also its object

From this reading IF this chapter is a short one, it is so for the best of reasons: it is meant to record some blunders of printers and others which impressed themselves upon me.

used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned

From this reading IF this chapter is a short one, it is so for the best of reasons: it is meant to record some blunders of printers and others which impressed themselves upon me.

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

From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_

given a completely different form or appearance

From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_

any of numerous perennial bulbous herbs having linear or broadly lanceolate leaves and usually a single showy flower

From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_

being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level

From this reading The really humorous faults in the setting up of anything I have ever written have been very few.

a formal word for “on”

From this reading IF this chapter is a short one, it is so for the best of reasons: it is meant to record some blunders of printers and others which impressed themselves upon me.

precisely as stated

From this reading The really humorous faults in the setting up of anything I have ever written have been very few.

plural of “violet” — any of numerous low-growing violas with small flowers

From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_

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

From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_

used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned

From this reading IF this chapter is a short one, it is so for the best of reasons: it is meant to record some blunders of printers and others which impressed themselves upon me.

the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase “the whys and wherefores”

From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_

used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past

From this reading It would obviously be impossible to make a chapter of the average length out of such a record.

intense anger (usually on an epic scale)

From this reading _Why the chapter is a short one--Straw essential to brick-making--A suggestion regarding the king in “Hamlet”--The Irish attendant--The overland route--“Susanna and the editors”--“The violets of his wrath”--The clergyman’s favourite poem--A horticultural feat--A tulip transformed--The entertainment of an interment--The autotype of Russia--A remarkable conflagration and a still more remarkable dance--Paradise and the other place--Why the concert was a success--The land of Goschcn--A sporting item--A detective story--The flora and fauna--The Moors dictum--Absit omen!_

set down in writing in any of various ways

From this reading The really humorous faults in the setting up of anything I have ever written have been very few.