"alectorian" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1808, Saint Thomas More, Thomas Frognall Dibdin, A Most Pleasant, Fruitful, and Witty Work of the Best State of a Public Weal, and of the New Isle Called Utopia",
          "text": "Stones of baser sort, and yet of singular vertue, are the Chalydonie, or Swallowstone, found in the mawes of young swallowes—against madnesse: and the Alectorian, or Cockes stone, of a waterie color, found in the maw of a cocke, or capon, after hee bee nine years olde—above all commended for giving strength and courage! and wherewith (as it is reported) the famous Milo-Critonien always stood invincible.",
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          "ref": "1890 September 6, “In an Ethiop's Ear”, in The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art, volume 70, number 1819",
          "text": "Who would not carry about him the alectorian stone, which, held in the mouth, ensures the mastery of the event, appeases thirst, and quells the ardours of the heart?",
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          "ref": "1926, Eric Rücker Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros, page 67",
          "text": "Against such a peril I had provided certain amulets made of the stone alectorian, which groweth in the gizzard of a cock hatched on a moonless night when Saturn burneth in a human sign and the lord of the third house is in the ascendant.",
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          "ref": "1997, Marcel Béalu, The Experience of the Night, page 103",
          "text": "My patients could obtain from my shops, at their choice, aphrodisiac spectacles or ones that cure love; spectacles made of alectorian stone that cancel the harmful effect of poisons, others made of chrysoprase that have the gift of strengthening weakened wills; spectacles that procure a grandiose, thrilling idea of the world, or ones that reduce it to the dimensions of a reading room . . . ones that give a blue view of life or a rose-tinted view; spectacles that induce dreams or suppress them ... in a word, the most fantastic assortment of spectacles imaginable.",
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          "ref": "1915, Journal of Microscopy - Volume 35, page 61",
          "text": "Howe has left R. thrausta in the genus Alectoria, where it was placed by Acharius; the filamentous cortex is Alectorian in character, and fruits are unknown.",
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          "ref": "1960, Problems of Botany - Volume 5, page 79",
          "text": "The mountain tundras in western Verkhoyansk, are frequently fragmented; the alectorian tundras are usually continuous.",
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          "ref": "1971, Nikolaĭ Andreevich Gvozdet︠s︡kiĭ, N. I. Mikhaĭlov, Physical Geography of the USSR (Asiatic Part), page 229",
          "text": "Sections of lichen (mostly alectorian) tundra are predominant in both subzones; moss-covered and hummocky-cotton grass tundras (in the Lena river delta) are confined to the excessively moist areas.",
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          "text": "Stones of baser sort, and yet of singular vertue, are the Chalydonie, or Swallowstone, found in the mawes of young swallowes—against madnesse: and the Alectorian, or Cockes stone, of a waterie color, found in the maw of a cocke, or capon, after hee bee nine years olde—above all commended for giving strength and courage! and wherewith (as it is reported) the famous Milo-Critonien always stood invincible.",
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        },
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          "text": "The mountain tundras in western Verkhoyansk, are frequently fragmented; the alectorian tundras are usually continuous.",
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          "text": "Sections of lichen (mostly alectorian) tundra are predominant in both subzones; moss-covered and hummocky-cotton grass tundras (in the Lena river delta) are confined to the excessively moist areas.",
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