personate
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Corolla personate, the palate on the lower lip projecting, often closing the throat; upper lip erect.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
An indescribable fear overpowered the countess--but it now seemed to her as if she did not dread the man whom she expected to see, but Him he was to personate.
From On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau by Hillern, Wilhelmine von
Corolla personate, with the prominent palate often nearly closing the throat, spurred at base on the lower side.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
He was, besides, a ventriloquist, and could thus personate and imitate any character or any voice he chose.
From Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete by Hogan, William
Whether in these boxes full of beauties one amongst them is intended by Leech to personate Mr. Smith’s “dreadfully bored” young lady, I cannot say.
From John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1 by Frith, William Powell
