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Definition of Lingers

1. linger [v] - See also: linger

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Lingers

lingel lingels Lingelsheimia Lingelsheimia anitrata lingenberry linger lingered lingerer lingerers lingerie

lingeries lingering lingering lingering(a) lingeringly lingers (current term) linger over lingier lingiest lingism

lingle lingles lingo lingoa wood lingoes lingonberries lingonberry lingot lingots lings

Literary usage of Lingers

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1. The Seasons by James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch (1842)
"His harden'd lingers deck the gaudy Spring; Without him, Summer were an arid waste ; Nor to the autumnal months could thus transmit Those full, mature, ..."

2. Curiosities of Popular Customs and of Rites, Ceremonies, Observances, and by William Shepard Walsh (1897)
"... Saw down the old woman, concluding the ceremony by sawing in two the figure of an old woman representing Lent. In Naples there still lingers ..."

3. The Poet at the Breakfast-table: He Talks with His Fellow-boarders and the by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1891)
"... but their memory lingers like an echo in the name it bears. Cherish it, inhabitants of the two-hilled city, once three-hilled; ye who have said to the ..."

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