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Definition of Jimper
1. jimp [adj] - See also: jimp
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jimper
Literary usage of Jimper
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1829)
"I'll no say he was a fat man, for he being of stature low, that might be a
question ; but I have had a Glasgow provost of a jimper capacity, and likewise a ..."
2. A Text-book of Mineralogy: With an Extended Treatise on Crystallography and by Edward Salisbury Dana, James Dwight Dana (1877)
"having the colors in broad stripes, (g) Egyptian jimper, in nodules which are
zoned in brown and yellowish colors. Porcelain jasper is nothing but baked ..."
3. A History of Rome by Robert Fowler Leighton (1878)
"... even thus early began to interfere in politics by the side of the aristocracy
jimper, and which, in destroying Corinth, got rid of a commercial rival. ..."
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