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waymark

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waymark [ˈweɪˌmɑːk]
n
(Mathematics & Measurements / Navigation) a symbol or signpost marking the route of a footpath
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Lydgate talked persistently when they were in his work-room, putting arguments for and against the probability of certain biological views; but he had none of those definite things to say or to show which give the waymarks of a patient uninterrupted pursuit, such as he used himself to insist on, saying that "there must be a systole and diastole in all inquiry," and that "a man's mind must be continually expanding and shrinking between the whole human horizon and the horizon of an object-glass.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
At all times she was so liable to fits of absence, that she was likely enough to let her waymarks pass unnoticed.
The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George View in context
 
 
 
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