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Definition of "lauwine" [lauwine]

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

Use "lauwine" in a sentence
  • "But the fittest has survived, and Byron's unlovely and misbegotten "lauwine" has died a natural death.] [ni] _But I have seen the virgin Jungfrau rear_."
  • "  The thundering lauwine — might be worshipped more;"
  • "Now and then we came to rushing mountain - torrents bursting over the road; far away, ever and anon, we heard the roar of a _lauwine_ or avalanche; sometimes I looked out, and could see straight down below me a thousand feet into an abyss or on a headlong stream."