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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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Stymphalian Birds

Language; Encyclopedias

Fabulous birds with brazen claws, wings, and beaks, that used their feathers as arrows, ate human flesh, and infested Arcadia; Hercules startled them with a rattle, and with his ...

Thrasybulus

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Famous Athenian general and democratic statesman; came to the front during the later part of the Peloponnesian War; took an active share in overturning the oligarchy of the Four ...

James Stephens

Language; Encyclopedias

Fenian conspirator, born in Kilkenny; became "Head Centre," and zealous in the Fenian cause both in Ireland and America; was arrested in Dublin, but escaped; found his way to New ...

Thursday

Language; Encyclopedias

Fifth day of the week, dedicated to Thor.

Telamones

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Figures, generally colossal, of men supporting entablatures, as Caryatides of women.

Gilbert Charles Stuart

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American portrait-painter, born at Narragansett, Rhode Island; was taken up by a Scotch painter named Alexander, whom he accompanied to Edinburgh, but was set adrift by the death ...

Charles Sumner

Language; Encyclopedias

American statesman and abolitionist, born in Boston; graduated at Harvard (1830), and was called to the bar in 1834, but found a more congenial sphere in writing and lecturing; ...