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mer·maid (mʉr′mād′)
Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Converse of object
- catch: To his great surprise he found he had caught a beautiful mermaid.
Adjective modifier
- beautiful: Under the sea, the beautiful mermaid is denied the prospect of true love.
Preposition: on
- beach: But his luck changes when he meets a distressed mermaid on the beach after a storm and decides to protect her.
Modifies a noun
- purse: Mermaids purse in a pink coral Photo: Simon Rogerson Why go there?
Possessives
- purse: A real treat was to find a mermaid's purse entwined in the seaweed.
Noun used with modifier
- fairy: When they were asleep, the fairy mermaid charmed her golden sword and then she also lay down to rest herself.
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What things have we seen, Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtil flame, As if that every one from whence they came, Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolv'd to live a fool, the rest Of his dull life.
This wench we speak of strays so from her kind, Nature repents she made her; 'tis a mermaid Has tolled my son to shipwreck
Souls of Poets dead and gone What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern?
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