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Language
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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St. Susan
Language; Encyclopedias
The patron saint and guardian of innocence and saviour from infamy and reproach. See Susanna.
Liberia
Language; Encyclopedias
A negro republic on the Grain Coast of Africa, founded in 1822 by American philanthropists as a settlement for freedmen, with a constitution after the model of the United States.
Stonehenge
Language; Encyclopedias
The greatest and best preserved of the stone circles of Britain, situated in Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, 7 m. N. of Salisbury; "consists of two concentric circles, enclosing two ...
superstition
Language; Encyclopedias
The fear of that which is not God, as if it were God, or the fear of that which is not the devil, as if it were the devil; or, as it has in more detail been defined by Ruskin, ...
James Stephen
Language; Encyclopedias
Slavery abolitionist, born in Dorsetshire; held a post in the West Indies; wrote "Slavery in the British West Indies," an able book; had sons more or less distinguished in law and ...
Steppes
Language; Encyclopedias
The name given to wide, treeless plains, barren except in spring, of the SE. of Russia and SW. of Siberia.
Lewis Theobald
Language; Encyclopedias
Shakespearian critic, born at Sittingbourne, Kent; bred to the law by his father, an attorney, but took to literature; wrote a tragedy; contributed to Mist's Journal, and in 1716 ...
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