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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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Spires

Language; Encyclopedias

Or Speyer, an old German town on the left bank of the Rhine, in the Palatinate, 14 m. SW. of Heidelberg, the seat of a bishop and with a cathedral, of its kind one of the finest ...

Cross of Tau

Language; Encyclopedias

Or St. Anthony's Cross, a cross resembling the letter T.

Suliman

Language; Encyclopedias

Or Suleiman Mountains, a bare and rugged range, stretching N. and S. for upwards of 350 m. from the Kyber Pass almost to the Arabian Sea, and forming the boundary between ...

Sunderbunds

Language; Encyclopedias

Or Sundarbans, a great tract of jungle, swamp, and alluvial plain, forming the lower portion of the Ganges delta; extends from the Hooghly on the W. to the Meghna on the E., a ...

Suwarrow

Language; Encyclopedias

Or Suvoroff, Russian field-marshal, born at Moscow; entered the army as a private soldier, distinguished himself in the Seven Years' War, and after 20 years' service rose to ...

Swerga

Language; Encyclopedias

Or Svarga, the summit of Mount Meru, the Hindu Olympus, the heaven or abode of Indra and of the gods in general.

taboo

Language; Encyclopedias

Or Tabu, a solemn prohibition or interdict among the Polynesians under which a particular person or thing is pronounced inviolable, and so sacred, the violation of which entails ...