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Definition of Tarns
1. tarn [n] - See also: tarn
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tarns
Literary usage of Tarns
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report and Transactions (1897)
"are thickly scattered numerous small sheets of water, or tarns, ... Others of
these tarns lie in the deeper portions of the narrow valleys, ..."
2. Magna Britannia;: Being a Concise Topographical Account of the Several by Daniel Lysons, Samuel Lysons (1816)
"The chief of the smaller lakes or tarns as they are called, are Burn moor tarn
at the head of the Mite, two nameless tarns near Sella-field and Bray (in St. ..."
3. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1886)
"itself tarns a small pinion that carries the "fly-fan." The use of the fan is to
keep an even motion. The large wheel that we have spoken of turns once at ..."
4. Virginia Reports: Jefferson--33 Grattan, 1730-1880 by Thomas Johnson Michie, Thomas Jefferson, Peachy Ridgway Grattan (1901)
"It appears that Brannaman wishing to use the purchase money to buy another farm,
at his instance, tarns, instead of paying the one thousand dollars, ..."
5. The English Lake District Fisheries by John Watson (1899)
"CHAPTER XII MOUNTAIN tarns SCATTERED among the mountains of the Lake District
are almost innumerable tarns, most of which contain fish, many of them trout. ..."
6. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"... the dissolution of the body resolves itself into (1) the Manet; (2) the An'imu
or Spirit; (3) the Umbra. The Manes went either to Elysium or Tar'tarns; ..."
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