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Definition of Ricketty
1. unsteady [adj RICKETTIER, RICKETTIEST] - See also: unsteady
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ricketty
Literary usage of Ricketty
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1889)
"To contrast these rates with those obtained by measurement of limbs which are
the subjects of ricketty curvatures. 3. To estimate the effect of these ..."
2. A Winter's Journey (Tâtar), from Constantinople to Tehran: With Travels by James Baillie Fraser (1838)
"LETTER I. Leave London.—Road to Dover.—Reflections.—The Passage.— Calais.
— ricketty Carriage. — Air Pillows.—Liege.—Prussian Civility. — The Rhine. ..."
3. On Foot Through Tyrol: In the Summer of 1855 by Walter White (1856)
"... Pezzo—ricketty Houses— " Nostro Giacomo I"—Hospitable Demonstration—Ponta di
Legno— Meagre Fare—A Scene at Bedtime. HAVING seen the Pass of the Stelvio, ..."
4. A Dictionary of Domestic Medicine: Giving a Description of Diseases by John Henry Clarke (1901)
"In thin, ricketty children. SAINT VITUS' DANCE.—This is a disease of the nervous
system, the precise nature of which is not known. ..."
5. Family medical adviser by John Skelton (1852)
"that those of a relaxed, ricketty, and delicate habit of body, are generally the
most subject to it; and it will generally be found, even if the health had ..."
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