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laurence

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laurence [′lȯr·əns]
(optics)
A shimmering seen over a hot surface on a calm, cloudless day, caused by the unequal refraction of light by innumerable convective air columns of different temperatures and densities.
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Perhaps your cousin Laurence would like to hear them too.
Grandfather's Chair by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
When I heard this I prayed him on my knees that he would give me the use of his gown, which after many contentions he at last agreed to do, on my paying him three marks towards the regilding of the image of Laurence the martyr.
The White Company by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
Scotland, however, had been of late used so exclusively as the scene of what is called Historical Romance, that the preliminary letter of Mr Laurence Templeton became in some measure necessary.
Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter View in context
 
 
 
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