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raising

1. The act of lifting, setting up, elevating, exalting, producing, or restoring to life.

2. Specifically, the operation or work of setting up the frame of a building; as, to help at a raising.

3. The operation of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning. Raising bee, a bee for raising the frame of a building. See Bee. Raising hammer, a hammer with a rounded face, used in raising sheet metal. Raising plate, the plate, or longitudinal timber, on which a roof is raised and rests.


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Re: The Colin Leslie Dean species paradox

... that we protect threatened and endangered species if they're just threatened and endangered nonsense? How do we continue agriculture if we're just raising a bunch of crops of nonsense? How do we keep invasive nonsense from ruining our natural resources? How do we prevent diseases that are caused ...

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by gamila
Sun Jul 19, 2009 5:10 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: The Colin Leslie Dean species paradox
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Re: The Colin Leslie Dean species paradox

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by AstusAleator
Sun Jul 19, 2009 4:22 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: The Colin Leslie Dean species paradox
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WHO scum - politics over lives

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Sat Jun 13, 2009 8:32 am
 
Forum: Ecology
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