ree
noun
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John Plaintext, He shall be mighty beef, our English staple; The worthy Alderman, a butter'd dumpling; Yon pair of whisker'd Cornets, ruffs and rees: Their friend the Dandy, a green goose in sippets.
From The Monastery by Sir Walter Scott
They die during the night, dropping suddenly from their roosting-place on the highest boughs of the great beech- rees, with a thud distinctly heard in the silence of the woods.
From The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life by Richard Jefferies
He showed me the Conde da Barca's library, which, as I knew before, had been purchased at the price of 15,530,900 rees, and added to the public collection.
From Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823 by Maria Graham
The king of Ormus was very poor, and lived chiefly on a pension or allowance of 140,000 rees, allowed him by the king of Spain, with some small reserved petty customs.
Every piece is marked with the number of rees it is worth, so that a mistake can hardly happen.
From A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany-Bay by Watkin Tench
