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Definition of Dosses
1. doss [v] - See also: doss
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dosses
Literary usage of Dosses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the British Empire in India by Edward Thornton (1843)
"If it be said that they received something, the dosses nothing, it is to be asked,
how that affects the principle ? Justice or injustice is not measured by ..."
2. Public School Administration: A Statement of the Fundamental Principles by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley (1916)
"Supplementary dosses. For "left-overs," who are organized into special classes
and taught ... Over-age dosses. For those markedly over-age in the grades, ..."
3. The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte by Auguste Comte, Harriet Martineau (1893)
"As for the other leading class, the mi dosses. active or practical, which
comprehends the vast majority, its more complete and marked development has ..."
4. Public School Administration: A Statement of the Fundamental Principles by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley (1916)
"Supplementary dosses. For "left-overs," who are organized into special classes and
... Ungraded dosses. For elementary-school pupils who, for any reason, ..."
5. The American Journal of Education by Henry Barnard (1859)
"OS of tho •working classes, and in the rest cf the country for 1 in 9.2 of theso
dosses, do- ducting .SO/HN) taught at endowed schools: 8. ..."
6. The Life and Correspondence of Henry St. George Tucker: Late Accountant by John William Kaye (1854)
"The creditors, for the most part, prudently took what they could get, which was,
in most cases, more than they deserved. But the " dosses," claiming to be ..."
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