Finochio
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
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- 1 Alternative spelling of finocchio. alt-of, alternative
"If it ſeems ſo ſtrange to ye, I would not have you reſt ſatisfied with my bare word for it. Let us begin to examine at home, and you will find amongſt us ſerpents, that each of the kind, as ſoon as awaken’d by the ſpring, perceiving his ſkin ſtarky and rivelled, by lying the whole winter folded up in one poſition, makes directly to the finochio, and crams himſelf with it, till it makes him with eaſe caſt his old ſlough."
Example
More examples"If it ſeems ſo ſtrange to ye, I would not have you reſt ſatisfied with my bare word for it. Let us begin to examine at home, and you will find amongſt us ſerpents, that each of the kind, as ſoon as awaken’d by the ſpring, perceiving his ſkin ſtarky and rivelled, by lying the whole winter folded up in one poſition, makes directly to the finochio, and crams himſelf with it, till it makes him with eaſe caſt his old ſlough."
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