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Ferrier

Ferrier \Fer"ri*er\, n. A ferryman.
--Calthrop.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ferrier

"ferryman," mid-15c., from ferry + -er (1).

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ferrier

n. (context obsolete English) a ferryman

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Ferrier

Ferrier may refer to:

People
  • Ferrier (surname)
  • Kathleen Ferrier (1912–1953), contralto
Places
  • Ferrier Estate, large Council estate in Greenwich, London, UK
  • Ferrier, Nord-Est, commune in Haiti
  • Ferrier Peninsula, South Orkney Islands, Antarctica
Other
  • Ferrier carbocyclization, organic reaction
  • Ferrier rearrangement, organic reaction
  • Kathleen Ferrier Award, contest for Opera singers

Usage examples of "ferrier".

Fritsch and Hitzig and Ferrier had induced in animals, by the same method of experimentation.

It was not until the work of Paul Broca in France, David Ferrier in England and other later nineteenth-century pioneers that it became clear that at least some aspects of brain function could be localized, in the sense that damage to them results in more or less specific functional deficits, from motor paralysis to loss of speech.

David Ferrier, whose experiments upon monkeys had perhaps first suggested their repitition on a living human brain, questioned somewhath the propriety of the American experiments.

She looked him up and down, noticing that while most of him was a standard Ferrier model, his right arm was the dianite arm of an Avery robot.

Ay, he who so swayed a will of a wisp before me, hand prop to hand, prompt side to the pros, dressed like an earl in just the correct wear, in a classy mac Frieze o'coat of far suparior ruggedness, indigo braw, tracked and tramped, and an Irish ferrier collar, freeswinging with mereswin lacers from his shoulthern and thick welted brogues on him hammered to suit the scotsmost public and climate, iron heels and sparable soles, and his jacket of providence wellprovided woolies with a softrolling lisp of a lapel to it and great sealingwax buttons, a good helping bigger than the slots for them .

Ay, he who so swayed a will of a wisp before me, hand prop to hand, prompt side to the pros, dressed like an earl in just the correct wear, in a classy mac Frieze o'coat of far suparior ruggedness, indigo braw, tracked and tramped, and an Irish ferrier collar, freeswinging with mereswin lacers from his shoulthern and thick welted brogues on him hammered to suit the scotsmost public and climate, iron heels and sparable soles, and his jacket of providence wellprovided woolies with a softrolling lisp of a lapel to it and great sealingwax buttons, a good helping bigger than the slots for them, of twentytwo carrot .

The message said that Ferrier ought to stop Titus Charlot, for everyone's sake, because Stylaster didn't know what was best for either humans or Gallacellans.