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Dix

[ US /ˈdɪks/ ]
NOUN
  1. United States social reformer who pioneered in the reform of prisons and in the treatment of the mentally ill; superintended women army nurses during the American Civil War (1802-1887)

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  • Of course the appendix has always been subject to inflammation, just as it is now, but in former years the disease we call appendicitis bore various names, depending upon the diagnostic skill of the attending physician. Appendicitis
  • Drake, in his _Eboracum_, says (p. 7, Appendix), "I have been so frightened with stories of the barguest when I was a child, that I cannot help throwing away an etymology upon it. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2)
  • Champlain appears to be carrying a light arquebus that Paulin-Desormeaux calls a fusil de chasse, a hunting weapon; ibid., 1:184-93; for a more extended discussion, see below, chapter 12, and Appendix L. Champlain's Dream
  • I wonder what Maggie Dixon said that finally pushed even sweet-tempered Eva Lou over the edge? DEVIL'S CLAW
  • Trente-six aspres valent un ducat de Venise; mais sur les cinq mille le tr閟orier qui les d閘ivra en retint dix par cent pour droits de sa charge. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
  • The Government still have not come clean about the information revealed in a Select Committee appendix.
  • Daminus mendacii a seipso deceptus, alios decipere cupit, adversarius humani generis, Inventor mortis, superbiae institutor, radix malitiae, scelerum caput, princeps omnium vitiorum, fuit inde in Dei contumeliam, hominum perniciem: de horum conatibus et operationibus lege Epiphanium. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • As an example of the kinds of subtle relationships that exist among different explanatory factors, the Appendix reconsiders the 1976 data.
  • an addendum can also be referred to as an appendix
  • Call it ‘Frisco Jazz,’ call it ‘Dixieland’ or ‘Traditional Jazz,’ it matters not - it's simply good-time music!
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