"sembling" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Compare assembling.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1899, James William Tutt, A Natural History of the British Lepidoptera:",
          "text": "time of sembling birds' droppings",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1831, James Rennie, Insect Architecture:",
          "text": "Upon this is founded the practice of sembling, as it is called by the London collectors, among whom, as we learn from Barbut and Harris, it has been long in use, for entrapping the males of the fox-moth […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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        "The practice of attracting the males of Lepidoptera or other insects by exposing the encaged female. It was a (as by collectors wishing to procure specimens)."
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        [
          "zoology",
          "zoology"
        ],
        [
          "attract",
          "attract"
        ],
        [
          "males",
          "males"
        ],
        [
          "Lepidoptera",
          "Lepidoptera#Translingual"
        ],
        [
          "insect",
          "insect"
        ],
        [
          "female",
          "female"
        ],
        [
          "collector",
          "collector"
        ],
        [
          "specimen",
          "specimen"
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        "(archaic, zoology) The practice of attracting the males of Lepidoptera or other insects by exposing the encaged female. It was a (as by collectors wishing to procure specimens)."
      ],
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        "archaic",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "natural-sciences",
        "zoology"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sembling"
}

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  "etymology_text": "Compare assembling.",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "semble"
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      "glosses": [
        "present participle and gerund of semble"
      ],
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        "form-of",
        "gerund",
        "participle",
        "present"
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  "word": "sembling"
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    "Pages with entries"
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  "etymology_text": "Compare assembling.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Zoology"
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        {
          "ref": "1899, James William Tutt, A Natural History of the British Lepidoptera:",
          "text": "time of sembling birds' droppings",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1831, James Rennie, Insect Architecture:",
          "text": "Upon this is founded the practice of sembling, as it is called by the London collectors, among whom, as we learn from Barbut and Harris, it has been long in use, for entrapping the males of the fox-moth […]",
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        }
      ],
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        "The practice of attracting the males of Lepidoptera or other insects by exposing the encaged female. It was a (as by collectors wishing to procure specimens)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "zoology",
          "zoology"
        ],
        [
          "attract",
          "attract"
        ],
        [
          "males",
          "males"
        ],
        [
          "Lepidoptera",
          "Lepidoptera#Translingual"
        ],
        [
          "insect",
          "insect"
        ],
        [
          "female",
          "female"
        ],
        [
          "collector",
          "collector"
        ],
        [
          "specimen",
          "specimen"
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        "(archaic, zoology) The practice of attracting the males of Lepidoptera or other insects by exposing the encaged female. It was a (as by collectors wishing to procure specimens)."
      ],
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        "archaic",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "natural-sciences",
        "zoology"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sembling"
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    "Pages with entries"
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  "etymology_text": "Compare assembling.",
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        "present participle and gerund of semble"
      ],
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