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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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week
Language; Encyclopedias
Division of time of seven days, supposed to have been suggested by the interval between the quarters of the moon.
Venice
Language; Encyclopedias
A city of Italy, in a province of the same name, at the head of the Adriatic, in a shallow lagoon dotted with some eighty islets, and built on piles partly of wood and partly of ...
Uranus
Language; Encyclopedias
(Heaven), in the Greek mythology the son of Gaia (the Earth), and by her the father of the Titans; he hated his children, and at birth thrust them down to Tartarus, to the grief ...
Ulysses' Bow
Language; Encyclopedias
A bow which only Ulysses could wield and shoot an arrow through twelve rings.
Zadkiel
Language; Encyclopedias
According to the Rabbins, the name of the angel of the planet Jupiter; also pseudonym assumed by Richard James Morrison, a naval officer, believer in astrology, and the compiler ...
Valenciennes
Language; Encyclopedias
An ancient fortified city in the dep. Nord, France, on the Scheldt, 32 m. SE. of Lille, with a citadel planned by Vauban, a fine town-hall, and a modern Gothic church and other ...
Tusculum
Language; Encyclopedias
A ruined Roman city, 15 m. SE. of Rome; at one time a favourite country resort of wealthy Romans; Brutus, Caesar, Cicero, and others had villas here; was stormed to ruins in 1191; ...
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