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单词 by-wipe
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by-wipe

English

Noun

by-wipe (plural by-wipes)

  1. A secret or side stroke, as of raillery or sarcasm.
    • 1641, John Milton, Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, [], Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, OCLC 926209975:
      Wherefore that conceit of Legion with a by-wipe? Was it because you would have men take notice how you esteem them, whom through all your book so bountifully you call your brethren?

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for by-wipe in
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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