Drin


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Drin

 (drēn)
A river, about 280 km (175 mi) long, of Albania flowing north and west to the Adriatic Sea.
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Drin

(drɪn)
n
(Placename) a river in S Europe, rising in SW Macedonia and flowing north and west, through Albania, into the Adriatic Sea. Length: about 270 km (170 miles)
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Drin

(drin)

n.
a river in S Europe, flowing generally NW from S Yugoslavia through N Albania into the Adriatic. 180 mi. (290 km) long.
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It may be rendered into English thus: "May your celestial majesty outlive the sun, eleven moons and a half!" To this the king returned some answer, which, although I could not understand, yet I replied as I had been directed: FLUFT DRIN YALERICK DWULDOM PRASTRAD MIRPUSH, which properly signifies, "My tongue is in the mouth of my friend;" and by this expression was meant, that I desired leave to bring my interpreter; whereupon the young man already mentioned was accordingly introduced, by whose intervention I answered as many questions as his majesty could put in above an hour.
"Unidentified men attacked the vehicle carrying pilgrims with explosives that was coming back from Taftan to Quetta as the coach reached in Drin Garh area of Mastung, causing death of eight people and injuring of 17 others," he said.
Mae'r dail yn dda at drin y bustl a chyflyrau sy'n effeithio ar y bustl a'r iau, ac felly i fod yn dda at bethau fel y clefyd melyn.
The Drin River Cascade Rehabilitation Project concerns four of the main hydropower stations, representing more than 50 percent of the total installed capacity.
A Finnish double-blind, placebo-controlled trial in which patients were instructed to drin but not to binge, found that those in the naltrexone group were significantly less liely to have serious relapses than those taing placebo.
Wrth lwc, roedd modd ei drin o o'r tu allan efo'r waywffon a rhoi meddyginiaeth o gryn bellter.
LORRAINE COCKS, daughter of Barry and Barbara Cocks, of Ranulf Croft, Cheylesmore, Coventry, and Mark Holloway, son on Michael and Drin Holloway, of Elmwood Grove, Hollywood, Birmingham, married at Quinton Park Baptist Church, Coventry, on June 21.
The dialogue veers towards the "canteen in ten minutes" sort of nonsense, plausibility's thin and the direction's fitful at best, but it rattles along well enough although whether it was Janus or the scriptwriter who forgot about her buying the team drin ks after work wasn't too clear.
The orphanage we are taking our mercy consignment to is at Drin in Bosnia.
Mae hyn cofiwn yr un mor wir wrth drin yr anifeiliaid ag yw hi i roi sylw i beiriannau'r fferm.
H did drin as a "ibl d O'Shea (circled) said: "Danny's a special player.