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Of of pertaining to any method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way, whether united in a system specific to a country or region.
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Turkestan
Language; Encyclopedias
A wide region in Central Asia, divided by the Pamir plateau into sections: Western Turkestan, which embraces Russian Turkestan (3,342), the Khanates of Khiva and Bokhara, and ...
Zulus
Language; Encyclopedias
A section of the Bantu family which originally occupied the SE. seaboard of Africa from Delagoa Bay to the Great Fish River; they are a race of superior physique and intellectual ...
Eli Whitney
Language; Encyclopedias
An American inventor, born in Massachusetts; invented the cotton-gin, a machine for cleaning seed-cotton, and became a manufacturer of firearms, by which he realised a large ...
Worthing
Language; Encyclopedias
A fashionable watering-place on the Sussex coast, 10½ m. SW. of Brighton; has a mild climate, fine sands, and a long wide parade.
Whitby
Language; Encyclopedias
A seaport and famous bathing-place in the North Riding of Yorkshire, 54½ m. NE. of York; is situated at the mouth of the Esk, and looks N. over the German Ocean; it consists of an ...
Dick Turpin
Language; Encyclopedias
A felon executed at York for horse-stealing; celebrated for his ride to York in Ainsworth's "Rookwood."
Venezuela
Language; Encyclopedias
A federal republic in South America, founded in 1830, over three times as large as Spain, consisting of nine States and several territories; composed of mountain and valley, and ...
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