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Definition of Savins
1. savin [n] - See also: savin
Lexicographical Neighbors of Savins
Literary usage of Savins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1880)
"He laughed at the words, savins; that the gentleman I would accuse was of high
authority in the town, one of ils first magnates. That he had clone it, ..."
2. A Dictionary of the Drama: A Guide to the Plays, Play-wrights, Players, and by William Davenport Adams (1904)
"He is credited with the savins that to a theatrical manager " Shakespeare spells
ruin, and Byron bankruptcy." Novelist and miscellaneous writer, ..."
3. High Steam-pressures in Locomotive Service by William Freeman Myrick Goss (1907)
"The line В represents the savins in fuel when an allowable increase in weight is
utilized in making a larger boiler to give increased capacity. ..."
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