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sembling - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
sembling (uncountable). (archaic) The practice of attracting male butterflies or other insects by exposing the encaged female.
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sembling, n.¹ meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English ...
This word is now obsolete. It is last recorded around the mid 1500s. Entry status. OED is undergoing a continuous programme of revision to modernize and improve ...
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sembling and semblinge - Middle English Compendium
1. (a) Gathering together of people; a friendly meeting; haven in ~, to have (people) in one's army or retinue; maken ~ of, assemble (an army); (b) a hostile ...
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sembling
▪ I. † ˈsembling, ppl. a. Obs. [f. semble v.2 + -ing2.] 1. That feigns or simulates.1557–8 Jacob & Esau v. iv. (1568) F iv b, Ah hypocrite, ah hedgecreeper, ah sembling wretche. 1583 Leg. Bp. St. Androis 916 in Satir. Poems Reform. xlv, They knew him for a sembling baird. 1612 T. Taylor Comm. Titus ...
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Sembling Definition & Meaning - YourDictionary
(zoology) The practice of attracting the males of Lepidoptera or other insects by exposing the female confined in a cage (as by collectors wishing to procure ...
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definition of Sembling by The Free Dictionary
n. 1. (Zool.) The practice of attracting the males of Lepidoptera or other insects by exposing the female confined in a cage. Webster's Revised Unabridged ...
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unresembling
unreˈsembling, ppl. a. (un-1 10, 5 d.)1598 Florio, Dissimile,..vnlike, vnresembling. 1655 Earl of Orrery Parthen. i. viii. 383 He had once seene some features not vnresembling his. 1683 Dryden Ded. to Plutarch's Lives 26 Malice will make a picture more un⁓resembling than ignorance. 1702 S. Parker tr...
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sembling - definition and meaning - Wordnik
noun (Zoöl.) The practice of attracting the males of Lepidoptera or other insects by exposing the female confined in a cage. from Wiktionary, Creative Commons ...
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"SEMBLING": Bringing elements together by resemblance - OneLook
▸ noun: (archaic, zoology) The practice of attracting the males of Lepidoptera or other insects by exposing the encaged female. It was a (as by collectors ...
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Noun. SEMBLING (uncountable) (zoology) The practice of attracting the males of lepidoptera or other insects by exposing the female confined in a cage (as by ...
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sembling, adj. meanings, etymology and more
The earliest known use of the adjective sembling is in the mid 1500s. OED's earliest evidence for sembling is from 1568, in Newe Comedie Iacob & Esau.
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resembling
▪ I. † reˈsembling, vbl. n. Obs. [f. as prec. + -ing1.] A likeness; resemblance; comparison.1480 Caxton Trevisa's Higden iii. xviii. 133 b, Þe men of Athene..maden an ymage of gold, resemblyng and remembraunce of socrates. 1513 Douglas æneis vi. Prol. 156 Set thow to Vulcane haif full gret resemblin...
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semble
▪ I. ˈsemble, a. Obs. (exc. arch. poet.) [a. OF. semble:—L. similis: see similar a.] Like, similar.1449 Verulam MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm. 1906) 4 The seide place without delaye to be abated in semble wyse. a 1450 Knt. de la Tour 87 Thanne the quene after kneled tofore her lorde, and besought hym that m...
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assemble
▪ I. assemble, v.1 (əˈsɛmb(ə)l) Forms: 3–4 asemle, 4 asemble, 5 assemle, -ele, -bill, -myll, 6 -bul, 4– assemble. See also aphet. semble v.1 [a. OF. a(s)semble-r, cogn. with Pr. assemblar, Sp. asemblar, It. assemblare, -brare:—L. ad-, assimulā-re, in its late sense of simul cogĕre, f. ad to + simul ...
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symbolling
▪ I. symbolling, vbl. n. (ˈsɪmbəlɪŋ) U.S. usu. symboling. [f. symbol v.1 + -ing1.] a. The action of symbolizing; transf., something that symbolizes, symbolism. b. The use of symbols in communication.1842 Tupper Proverb. Philos. Ser. ii. 229 Animal creation, with sciences, and things..Contributed the...
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