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Claiborne, Craig(dictionary)
William IV(encyclopedia)
Lee, William(encyclopedia)
William I(dictionary)
William III(dictionary)
Tell, William(dictionary)
Tell, William(encyclopedia)
Pym, Sir William(medicine)

voluminous (iou) and Claiborne, William (sh)


voluminous (iou)



voluminous adjective. E17.
[Partly from late Latin voluminosus with many coils, sinuous; partly directly from Latin volumin-, volumen VOLUME noun: see -OUS.]
1. Full of turnings or windings; containing or consisting of many coils or convolutions. Now rare. E17.
2. Producing many books; Writing or speaking at great length. E17.
New Left Review The most ardent and voluminous advocate of women's liberation.
3. Forming a large volume; consisting of many volumes. E17.
D. Piper His voluminous book on Milton's work.
4. Extremely full or copious; forming a large mass or collection; gen. extensive, vast. M17.
R. K. Narayan My notes on this are voluminous.
5. Of great volume or size; massive, bulky, large; (of drapery etc.) loose and ample. M17.
N. Blake Petrov produced an envelope from the pocket of his voluminous overcoat. J. Gathorne-Hardy Her nightdress spreading out round her voluminous as a tent.
voluminosity noun the state of being voluminous; rare an instance of this: L18.
voluminously adverb M17.
voluminousness noun M17.

Claiborne, William (sh)




born งใ 1587, Westmorland County, Eng.
died งใ 1677, Virginia

American colonial trader and public official.

Emigrating to Virginia in 1621, he was appointed secretary of state of the colony and a member of the governor's royal council. He traded with the Indians of Chesapeake Bay and in 1631 established a successful trading post on Kent Island. Denied his claim to the island, he incited a revolt (1644) that ousted the Maryland governor and left Claiborne in charge of the colony until 1646. From 1652 to 1657 he was a member of the commission that governed Maryland.