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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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Veddas

Language; Encyclopedias

The aborigines of Ceylon, of whom some 2000, still in a wild state, are extant between Kandy and the E. coast.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Language; Encyclopedias

The American "Quaker Poet," born at Haverhill, in Massachusetts, the son of a poor farmer; wrought, like Burns, at field work, and acquired a loving sympathy with Nature, natural ...

Upsala

Language; Encyclopedias

The ancient capital of Sweden, on the Sala, 21 m. NW. of Stockholm, the seat of the Primate, and of a famous university with 1900 students, and a library of 250,000 volumes; its ...

Zea

Language; Encyclopedias

The ancient Ceos, an island of the Grecian Archipelago; of great fertility; produces wine, honey, silk, and maize.

Izaak Walton

Language; Encyclopedias

The angler, born in Stafford; settled as a linen-draper, first in Fleet Street and then in Chancery Lane, London; married a lady, a grand-niece of Cranmer, and on her death a ...

Zuleika

Language; Encyclopedias

The bride of Abydos, celebrated by Byron, a pure-souled woman of great beauty, who, in love with Selim, promises to flee with him and become his bride, but her father shoots him, ...

Tommy Atkins

Language; Encyclopedias

The British soldier, as Jack Tar is the British sailor, from a hypothetical name inserted in a War Office schedule at one time issued to each soldier.