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coomb
noun
An old English measure of corn (e.g., wheat), equal to half a quarter or 4 bushels. Also comb.
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Yet, I feel, If someone said on Christmas Eve, "Come; see the oxen kneel, "In the lonely barton by yonder coomb Our childhood used to know," I should go with him in the gloom, Hoping it might be so.
Below the hanger of rustling beech and sycamore, sheep and sturdy lambs seek the shade of bramble and gorse in the coomb which leads to Chapman's Pool.
Yet, I feel, If someone said on Christmas Eve, "Come; see the oxen kneel, "In the lonely barton by yonder coomb Our childhood used to know," I should go with him in the gloom, Hoping it might be so.
Important names are misspelt, sometimes repeatedly, including those of the car dealer John Coombs (not Coomb), the Fiat boss Sergio Marchionne (not Marchione) and the engineer Alan Permane (not Permayne), who was "Witness X" in the notorious Crashgate hearings of 2009.
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Chelsea: (4-3-3) Lindahl; Blundell, Fahey, Flaherty, Rafferty; Chapman, Spence, Bright; Davison, Ji (Coombs, 90), Aluko (Borges, 81).
Coombs later asked: "At anytime did he say the American flag didn't mean anything to him?".
Contostavlos, who appeared in the dock wearing a black floral dress and a fitted white blazer, sat down next to Coombs.
All during breakfast DeWitt kept telling Coombs that he was doing things that just weren't done.
Mr Coombs questioned the army's response to Mr Manning's mental-health issues and noted that had it acted differently his client might not have had access to classified information.But Mr Manning said his personal issues were not an excuse for his having "hurt people" and "hurt the United States".
The Coombs, or antiglobulin, test (AGT) is used to test red blood cells for compatibility when doing a cross match between donor red blood cells and recipient serum.
Based on this criterion, immunologists use the Gell-Coombs classification system to recognize four types of hypersensitivity reactions.
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