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At or in whatever place; wheresoever. He can not but love virtue wherever it is. Atterbury.

. . . of what use a good reputation is, and how swift and advantageous a harbinger it is, wherever one goes. Chesterfield.

e in the vicinity of Camembert, near Argentan, France; also, any cheese of the same type, wherever made.

A pair of compasses. [R.] To fix one foot of their compass wherever they please. Swift.

having the difference marked; separated by a visible sign; marked out; specified. [Obs.] Wherever thus created -- for no place Is yet distinct by name. Milton.

de; -- so called from the village of Edam, near Amsterdam. Also, cheese of the same type, wherever made.

Tainted or contaminated with flyblows; damaged; foul. Wherever flyblown reputations were assembled. Thackeray.

ulic press, and the design is drawn upon this in a peculiar ink which hardens the surface wherever it is applied. The surface is then carefully rubbed or brushed, leaving the lines in relief.

, flat noses, and thick protruding lips; also, any black person of unmixed African blood, wherever found.

To take spoil; to plunder; to ravage. They were suffered to pillage wherever they went. Macaulay.

pprobation, as by the exclamation " Pshaw!" The goodman used regularly to frown and pshaw wherever this topic was touched upon. Sir W. Scott.

Separate; abstracted. "Wherever the mind places itself by any thought, either amongst, or remote from, all bodies." Locke.

and forwards, like a shuttle. I had to fly far and wide, shutting athwart the big Babel, wherever his calls and pauses had to be. Carlyle.

A harpoon; also, a harpooner. Wherever we come to an anchor, we always send out our strikers, and put out hooks and lines overboard, to try fish. Dampier.

ong it by the action of gravity, will always arrive at the lowest point in the same time, wherever in the curve it may begin to fall; as, an inverted cycloid with its base horizontal is a tautochrone.

Wherever; -- a contracted and poetical form. Cowper.

In what place soever; in whatever place; wherever.

ve observed among all nations that the women ornament themselves more than the men; that, wherever found, they are the same kind, civil, obliging, humane, tender beings, inclined to be gay and cheerful, timorous and modest. J. Ledyard.