The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-09-26
Woreester's Universal and Critical Die
tionary OF the English Language.
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DFJ y. T., w oRCESTER, LII. ~
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AUTHORITIES with respect to words newly intro
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CAL foreign, obsolete, provincial, vulgar. The
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