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"text": "[…] sleeping life waiting to be spread and dispersed, every seed armed with an appliance of dispersal, twisting darts and parachutes for the wind, little spears and balls of tiny thorns, and all waiting for animals and for the wind, for a man’s trouser cuff or the hem of a woman’s skirt […]",
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"text": "1658, Elias Ashmole, The Way to Bliss, London: Nath. Brook, Book 2, Chapter 2 “Of Health,” p. 75,\n[…] there be three things, and every one full of under-branches belonging to this Art and way of Healing: The first is knowledge of the Diseases: the second is the Remedies against them: and the third of the appliance of Remedies; All which should be traversed in this Discourse."
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"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prisposoblénije",
"sense": "an implement, instrument or apparatus",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "приспособле́ние"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pribór",
"sense": "an implement, instrument or apparatus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "прибо́р"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "an implement, instrument or apparatus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "implemento"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "an implement, instrument or apparatus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "instrumento"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "an implement, instrument or apparatus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "aparato"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "an implement, instrument or apparatus",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural"
],
"word": "enseres"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "an implement, instrument or apparatus",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "apparat"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "an implement, instrument or apparatus",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "anordning"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "an implement, instrument or apparatus",
"word": "aygıt"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "an implement, instrument or apparatus",
"word": "cihaz"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "an implement, instrument or apparatus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "teclyn"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"appliance"
],
"word": "appliance"
}
{
"called_from": "page/1498/20230118",
"msg": "''An implement, an instrument or'[...]' gloss has examples we want to keep, but there are subglosses.",
"path": [
"appliance"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "appliance",
"trace": ""
}
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