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See Sothic.

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version

Part of Speech: noun

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            1.                                             A                                                         change                                                         of                                                         form,                                                         direction,                                                         or                                                         the                                                         like;                                                         transformation;                                                           conversion;                                                           turning.                                    

            2.                                             A                                                           condition                                                         of                                                         the                                                           uterus                                                         in                                                         which                                                         its                                                         axis                                                         is                                                         deflected                                                         from                                                         its                                                         normal                                                           position                                                         without                                                         being                                                         bent                                                         upon                                                         itself.                                                         See                                                         Anteversion,                                                         and                                                         Retroversion.                                    

            3.                                           The                                                         act                                                         of                                                         translating,                                                         or                                                         rendering,                                                         from                                                         one                                                         language                                                         into                                                         another                                                         language.                                    

            4.                                           An                                                         account                                                         or                                                         description                                                         from                                                           a                                                         particular                                                         point                                                         of                                                         view,                                                         especially                                                         as                                                           contrasted                                                         with                                                         another                                                         account;                                                         as,                                                         he                                                         gave                                                         another                                                           version                                                         of                                                         the                                                         affair.                                    

            5.                                             A                                                         translation;                                                         that                                                         which                                                         is                                                         rendered                                                         from                                                         another                                                         language;                                                         as,                                                         the                                                           Common,                                                         or                                                         Authorized,                                                         of                                                         the                                                           Scriptures (                                                        see                                                         under                                                         Authorized);                                                         the                                                         Septuagint                                                         of                                                         the                                                         Old                                                         Testament.

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Nor is there any thing of eternal anvils, or hers he found, in the original, and the brethren beating, and the blows go round, is but a loose version of Ferrum exercebant. - "The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753),Vol. V.", Theophilus Cibber.
I have read many historians on this event, but to hear the Squamish version was a novel and absorbing thing. - "Legends of Vancouver", E. Pauline Johnson.
When he had read a couple I found that the old woman knew many of them from her childhood, though her version was often not the same as what was in the book. - "The Aran Islands", John M. Synge.

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