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sperm Noun 1. pl sperms or sperm one of the male reproductive cells released in the semen during ejaculation 2. same as semen [Greek sperma]
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sperm noun 1. spermatozoon, reproductive cell, male gamete noun 2. semen, seed (archaic), (dialect) spermatozoa, scum U.S. (slang) come or cum (taboo) jism or jissom (taboo) Translations |
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Assuming the blubber to be the skin of the whale; then, when this skin, as in the case of a very large Sperm Whale, will yield the bulk of one hundred barrels of oil; and, when it is considered that, in quantity, or rather weight, that oil, in its expressed state, is only three fourths, and not the entire substance of the coat; some idea may hence be had of the enormousness of that animated mass, a mere part of whose mere integument yields such a lake of liquid as that. Sacred To the Memory of The late Captain Ezekiel Hardy, Who in the bows of his boat was killed by a Sperm Whale on the coast of Japan, August 3d, This Tablet Is erected to his Memory by His Widow. At any rate, he once more signed a ship's articles, and on January 1, 1841, sailed from New Bedford harbour in the whaler Acushnet, bound for the Pacific Ocean and the sperm fishery. |
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