Both Uses of
intimation
in
Arrowsmith
- He had intimates—the barber, the editor of the Eagle, the garageman—to whom he talked comfortably of hunting and the crops, and with whom he played poker.†
Chpt 16 *intimates = hints or suggests
- The letter from Dr. Stokes was not his only intimation that plague was striding through St. Hubert, that tomorrow it might be leaping to Barbados, to the Virgin Islands ....to New York.†
Chpt 32intimation = a hint or suggestion of something
Definition:
a subtle hint or something indicated indirectly