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Danaide

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Da´na`ide    (dā´nå`īd)
n.1.(Mach.) A water wheel having a vertical axis, and an inner and outer tapering shell, between which are vanes or floats attached usually to both shells, but sometimes only to one.
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It was like the cask of Danaides into which the public had been pleased to pour its deposits.
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Miss Ophelia, in a few days, thoroughly reformed every department of the house to a systematic pattern; but her labors in all departments that depended on the cooperation of servants were like those of Sisyphus or the Danaides.
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