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nar·y
/ ˈne(ə)rē/
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adj.
informal or dialect form of not:
nary a murmur or complaint.
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I, Dred Scott.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Audiobook Review)
Magazine article from: Kliatt; 9/1/2005; ; 198 words
; ...brings him to life with compassion and the intimate sort of detail that the listener will not soon forget. The text version in dialect form may be a little difficult for young people to read, but reader Fernandez takes care of that difficulty with ease and grace...
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The legacy of a single currency.
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 5/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...the thaler, which the Americans where to transmute into the dollar. In Europe it remained the thaler, or in its Bohemian dialect form, the tolar. It continued to be coined into the reign of the Empress Maria Theresa, who gave it its most famous name, the...
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Another Species.(Poem)
Magazine article from: Poetry; 2/1/2006; ; 62 words
; ...Species Kestrel too? Dwindling now? That small falcon somehow quarried out of a rainbow in its saffron and ash-blue blazons--and nary a one seen yet, and the year half-gone? Watching two of them once tumbling among canyons and crags of summer cloud, I felt top-lof...
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Brahms: Hungarian Dances (complete). Mario Rossi, Vienna State Opera Orchestra. Omega Classics OCD 1023.(Review)
Magazine article from: Sensible Sound; 11/1/1998; ; 43 words
; Brahms: Hungarian Dances (complete). Mario Rossi, Vienna State Opera Orchestra. Omega Classics OCD 1023. Up close, crystal-clear, 1955 monaural sound, with nary a trace of noise. This is one of the best remasterings of older material I have heard. Elegant performances, too.
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Co-host Jan Nary passed on the news that Queensland, Australia's Acoustic Harvest radio show has ceased airing on Bay FM 100.3, but has been revived as the New Acoustic Harvest on Brisbane radio 4EB 98.1 FM.(air waves)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Sing Out!; 9/22/2005; 59 words
; Co-host Jan Nary passed on the news that Queensland, Australia's Acoustic Harvest radio show has ceased airing on Bay FM 100.3, but has been revived...
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A cen-tee-nary celebration for Leeds golf veteran.
Newspaper article from: Yorkshire Evening Post (Leeds, England); 6/7/2008; 358 words
; GOLF is an addiction that has helped keep 100-year-old Joe Simon going. The young-at-heart grandfather celebrates his century today with a birthday tea laid on for him by Moor Allerton Golf Club in north Leeds. He has been playing for nearly 80 years and in 1935 he won the Leeds Municipal
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Romance Reading on the Book: Essays on Medieval Narrative presented to Maldwyn Mills.
Magazine article from: Yearbook of English Studies; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...some thirty years ago, when he was primarily concerned with philological questions ('the word owy, as a possible Kentish dialect form, was a very exciting feature of the poem' (p. 51)) and openly scornful of the poem's artistry. Some thirty years later, he...
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A true pyramid.(word pyramids)
Magazine article from: Word Ways; 11/1/2005; ; 368 words
; ...impossible, make all the faces related to each other in some way. All the above words are in Chambers Official Scrabble Words except dat , a dialect form of that , in Macquarie Dictionary, and drammers , drinkers, in Web-3. ANIL Perth, Australia
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Outreach prevents dam from being damned. (Olivenhain Municipal Water District's reservoir)
Magazine article from: San Diego Business Journal; 9/26/1994; ; 700+ words
; Environment: Water project moves forward with nary a complaint Conciliation works better than confrontation when planning a water storage project near environmentally sensitive lands...
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DON CIP 101--maintaining mission assurance through effective critical infrastructure protection.(Department of the Navy Chief Information Officer)
Magazine article from: CHIPS; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; In 1999, the Department of the Nary Chief Information Officer (DON CIO) assumed the collateral duties of the DON Critical Infrastructure Assurance Officer (CLAO) and...
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Nary, Cornelius
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History
Nary, Cornelius (1658–1738), Catholic priest and controversialist. The son of a Co. Kildare farmer, he was educated at the...Limerick , though commonly said to have been published anonymously in 1723, first appears in a collection printed in 1742. Nary engaged in public debate with several Protestant ...
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nary
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
nary see NEVER .
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never
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
...NO3 , EVER . The contr. form ner(e) , with indef. art. nere a , neʾer a , became (dial.) narrow a , narra , (esp. U.S.) nary . Hence nevertheless XIII; repl. earlier notheless , natheless OE. nā pȳ lǣs , f. nā , nō...
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Madonna
Book article from: Contemporary Musicians
...in Bay City, Michigan. Madonna has dominated the concert scene, the pop charts, and the music-video airwaves since 1985, with nary a rival able to nip at her heels. Her engaging blends of hip dance music and suggestive, campy lyrics have found audiences on...
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King, Alonzo 19(?)(?) –
Book article from: Contemporary Black Biography
...fresh look to contemporary ballet … with a stylistic aesthetic that takes ballet into the realm of hard and fast with nary a trace of French court dance, ” Campbell wrote in a 2000 Globe article. His choreography possesses a “ distinctively...
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