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Entire

adjective

Constituting the full quantity or extent; complete. Synonyms: full, total. "Gave full attention" , "A total failure"

Constituting the undiminished entirety; lacking nothing essential especially not damaged. Synonyms: intact, integral. "Was able to keep the collection entire during his lifetime" , "Fought to keep the union intact"

(of leaves or petals) having a smooth edge; not broken up into teeth or lobes.

(used of domestic animals) sexually competent. Synonym: intact.

noun

Uncastrated adult male horse. Synonym: stallion.

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... arrival the Indians were received on board the man-of-war "Beaufort" by Cornwallis and his entire council. The delegates announced that they were from Aukpaque, Medoctec, Passamaquoddy and Chignecto, and that their respective chiefs were Francois de Salle of Octpagh, Noellobig of Medoctec, Neptune Abbadouallete of Passamaquoddy and Joannes Pedousaghtigh of Chignecto. They brought ...

— Glimpses of the Past - History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 • W. O. Raymond

... by various writers as in existence after the Conquest, reduced to writing in the original tongue, and of several of them we have translations or abstracts.[52] Of four the translations claim to be complete, and were published entire for the first time in the original Spanish by Lord Kingsborough in the ninth volume of his great work on the Antiquities of Mexico. Since then they have received various renderings in prose and verse into different languages at the ...

— Ancient Nahuatl Poetry - Brinton's Library of Aboriginal American Literature Number VII. • Daniel G. Brinton

... it quite fulfilled its promise. Indeed, it was the only place I came across in Mesopotamia that might have been a surviving fragment of the Garden of Eden. It was nearly a mile long, and scattered about on it were seven or eight thick-walled and well-fortified houses. The entire island was one great palm-grove, with pomegranates, apricots, figs, orange-trees, and grape-vines growing beneath the palms. The grass at the foot of the trees was dotted with blue and pink flowers. Here and ...

— War in the Garden of Eden • Kermit Roosevelt

... ballot will not protect females against the tyranny of bad husbands, as the latter will compel them to vote as they dictate;" then in the next breath he declared: "Wives will form political alliances antagonistic to the husbands, and the result will be discord and divorce." In his entire speech Senator Brown ignored the existence of unmarried women and widows. He closed with copious extracts from "Letters from a Chimney Corner," written by ...

— The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) • Ida Husted Harper

... gazing intently at us; and I swept the entire dark circle of scowling faces, vainly endeavoring to find one hopeful glance, one friendly eye. Open hatred, undisguised distrust, implacable enmity, were stamped on every feature. Whatever our plea might be, I felt convinced that the chiefs were here only ...

— When Wilderness Was King - A Tale of the Illinois Country • Randall Parrish

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