Definition of Rauns

1. raun [n] - See also: raun

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rauns

raunches
raunchfest
raunchfests
raunchier
raunchiest
raunchily
raunchiness
raunchinesses
raunching
raundon
raunge
raunged
raunges
raunging
rauns (current term)
rauscher virus
rauvite
rauvolfia
rauwolfia
rauwolfia alkaloids
rauwolfias
rauwolscine
ravage
ravaged
ravagement
ravagements
ravager
ravagers
ravages

Literary usage of Rauns

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Indian Forester (1891)
"Perhaps the best all round wood (leaving male bamboo out of the question) is COTONEASTER BACILLARIS known as rauns in India and liun or ling in Kashmir; ..."

2. The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, Or, A Commentary ...by Edward Coke, Thomas Littleton, Francis Hargrave, Charles Butler, Matthew Hale, Heneage Finch Nottingham by Edward Coke, Thomas Littleton, Francis Hargrave, Charles Butler, Matthew Hale, Heneage Finch Nottingham (1853)
"28. detinue for charters doth sound in the realty, for therein sum- 29- 21 E- 3- 28. rauns and severance lyeth; and in detinue of goods a capias jfl ^ 8j1'" ..."

3. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1800)
"... Or THE MOUNTAIN WITH THREE PEARS; for, the Poo- rauns consider all islands as so many mountains, the lower parts of which are covered by the sea. ..."

4. A Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and Other Machines for by Thomas Ewbank (1849)
"... sphinxes, rauns, dragons, griffins, gorgons, satyrs, harpies, hippogriffs, and other unearthly combinations of human bodies with those of beasts, birds, ..."

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