2. Verb. (third-person singular of lash) ¹
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Definition of Lashes
1. lash [v] - See also: lash
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lashes
Literary usage of Lashes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Newgate Calendar: Comprising Interesting Memoirs of the Most Notorious by Andrew Knapp, William Lee. Baldwin (1828)
"... deponent was induced to count the lashes given the oilier negroes, heins;
under an impression thai the country would take up the business. ..."
2. The History of Twenty-five Years by Sir Spencer Walpole (1908)
"Immediately after the division on Mr. Parnell's amendment Mr. Hopwood proposed
that the number of lashes Reduction should be reduced from ..."
3. History of California by Theodore Henry Hittell (1898)
"... including the power of inflicting corporal punishment for delinquencies not
exceeding twenty-five lashes; and as long as this extent of punishment was ..."
4. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"... with open jaw and foaming fang, And groans indignant from his heart a groan,
And lashes either side his flanks and loins, Spurring himself to battle, ..."
5. Sketches of the Rise, Progress, and Decline of Secession: With a Narrative by William Gannaway Brownlow (1862)
"If it should be that we ever meet on the soil of South Carolina, I expect to be
one of the number that will give you thirty-nine lashes on your bare back, ..."
6. The Science and Art of Surgery: Being a Treatise on Surgical Injuries by John Eric Erichsen (1873)
"As to the so-called Distichiasis, the disease has no real existence ; there are
no cases in which two rows of lashes exist separately. ..."
7. My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass (1857)
"fast, thirty-nine lashes for the first offense; and for the second, shall have
cut off from his head one ear; for keeping or carrying a club, thirty-nine ..."
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