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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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High Wycombe

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A market-town in Buckinghamshire, on the Wye, 25 m. SE. of Oxford; has a parish church built in the Norman style in 1273 and restored in 1887, and several public buildings; the ...

Tyrtaeus

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A lyric poet of ancient Greece, of the 7th century B.C., and whose war-songs greatly heartened the Spartans in their struggle with the Messenians.

Zindikites

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A Mohammedan heretical sect, who disbelieve in Allah, and deny the resurrection and a future life.

Ulm

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City of Wurtemberg, on the Danube, 46 m. SE. of Stuttgart; was an imperial free city, and is a place of great importance; is famed for its cathedral, which for size ranks next to ...

Duke of Wharton Philip

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An able man, but unprincipled, who led a life of extravagance; professed loyalty to the existing government in England; intrigued with the Stuarts, and was convicted of ...

Weston-super-Mare

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A watering-place in Somersetshire, on the Bristol Channel, looking across it towards Wales.

yttrium

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A rare metal always found in combination with others, and is a blackish-gray powder; the oxide of it, yttria, is a soft whitish powder, and when ignited glows with a pure white ...