Lexicographical Neighbors of Cuirassing
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Literary usage of Cuirassing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Appletons' Cyclopædia of Applied Mechanics: A Dictionary of Mechanical by Appleton, firm, publishers, New York (1878)
"The problem for which a solution is sought in the cuirassing of ships of war,
is, how best to protect them against the effects of the shock of the enormous ..."
2. Synopsis of the Fishes of North America by David Starr Jordan, Charles Henry Gilbert (1883)
"... I externally entirely bony, the plates often spinous ; eyes large, placed
high; suborbital stay cuirassing the cheek; mouth terminal or inferior; ..."
3. A Wanderer's Notes by William Beatty-Kingston (1888)
"... glittering like burnished beetles, and heroically bearing up with a smile
against the ponderous gold embroidery cuirassing their chests. ..."
4. A Treatise on Naval Gunnery by Howard Douglas (1860)
"The idea of cuirassing ships of war was reproduced in France in 1854, as appears
by an article in the ' Moniteur,' by the present Emperor of the French, ..."
5. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections by Smithsonian Institution (1883)
"... eyes large, placed high; suborbital stay cuirassing the cheek; mouth terminal
or inferior; barbels often present; teeth small, ..."
6. Bulletin by United States National Museum (1883)
"ternally entirely bony, the plates often spinous; eyes large, placed gh; suborbital
stay cuirassing the cheek; mouth terminal or inferior; ..."
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