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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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Bury St. Edmunds
Language; Encyclopedias

Or St. Edmundsbury, a market-town in Suffolk, 26 m. NW. of Ipswich, named from Edmund, king of East Anglia, martyred by the Danes in 870, in whose honor it was built; famous for ...

Busaco
Language; Encyclopedias

A mountain ridge in the prov. of Beira, Portugal, where Wellington with 40,000 troops beat Masséna with 65,000.

Bushire
Language; Encyclopedias

The chief port of Persia on the Persian Gulf, and a great trading centre.

Bushmen
Language; Encyclopedias

Or Bosjesmans, aborigines of South-west Africa; a rude, nomadic race, at one time numerous, but now fast becoming extinct.

Bushrangers
Language; Encyclopedias

In Australia a gang made up of convicts who escaped to the "bush," and there associated with other desperadoes; at one time caused a great deal of trouble in the colony by their ...

Busiris
Language; Encyclopedias

A king of Egypt who used to offer human beings in sacrifice; seized Hercules and bound him to the altar, but Hercules snapped the bonds he was bound with, and sacrificed him.

buskin
Language; Encyclopedias

A kind of half-boot worn after the custom of hunters as part of the costume of actors in tragedy on the ancient Roman stage, and a synonym for tragedy.

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