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Malta

noun

A republic on the island of Malta in the Mediterranean; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1964. Synonym: Republic of Malta.

A strategically located island to the south of Sicily in the Mediterranean Sea.

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... branch of a pear-tree causes the fruit of that branch to ripen sooner by a fortnight, as I have more than once observed. The wounds made in apples by insects occasion those apples to ripen sooner; caprification, or the piercing of figs, in the island of Malta, is said to ripen them sooner; and I am well informed, that when bunches of grapes in this country have acquired their expected size, that if the stalk of each bunch be cut half through, that ...

— Zoonomia, Vol. II - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin

... May 17, I presented to him Mr. Fullarton, of Fullarton, who has since distinguished himself so much in India[1058], to whom he naturally talked of travels, as Mr. Brydone accompanied him in his tour to Sicily and Malta. He said, 'The information which we have from modern travellers is much more authentick than what we had from ancient travellers; ancient travellers guessed; modern travellers measure[1059]. The Swiss admit that there is but one errour in Stanyan[1060]. If Brydone were more ...

— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 3 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill

... enemies to give us good terms had vanished. In twelve hours it would not have mattered. But now the treaty was not yet signed. We should have to give up the Cape. We should have to let England have Malta. Now that Egypt was gone we had nothing left ...

— The Green Flag • Arthur Conan Doyle

... When I was at Malta, 1805, there happened a drunken squabble on the road from Valette to St. Antonio, between a party of soldiers and another of sailors. They were brought before me the next morning, and the great effect which their intoxication had produced on ...

— Literary Remains (1) • Coleridge

... Children (see Vol. III. of this edition). To the pieces that are printed in the present volume I would add the lines suggested by the death of Captain John Wordsworth, the poet's brother, in the foundering of the Abergavenny in February, 1805, when Coleridge was in Malta, which were sent by Mary Lamb to ...

— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb IV - Poems and Plays • Charles and Mary Lamb

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