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237:3 dividend. His knowledge a business asset that draws interest.

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241:22 skewer-like. Like a wooden pin now used to fasten meat.

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242:11 leaguer. Place besieged with shadows.

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242:27 Time was that when the brains were out. See Macbeth, Act III, sc. 4, line 78.

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243:16 iteration. Repetition.

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246:25 railleries. Merry jesting or ridicule.

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247:7 garishly. A blinding, gaudy effect.

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247:7 Brownrigg. A notorious murderess living in England in the middle of the eighteenth century. She was hanged and her skeleton is still preserved.

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247:8 Mannings. Marie Manning and her husband murdered a former suitor. They were given, a death sentence.

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247:9 Thurtell. A gambler who quarrelled with Weare and killed him after he had professed peace. He designed his own gallows.

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247:25 horologist. One who makes timepieces.

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249:27 scission. A cleaving or a dividing.

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250:25 Sheraton. Next to Chippendale the greatest furniture designer and cabinet-maker.

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250:25 marquetry. An inlay of some thin material in the surface of a piece of furniture or other object.

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251:23 Jacobean. Pertaining to the time of James I of England.

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253:12 travesty. A grotesque imitation.

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254:3 sophistry. Methods of the Greek sophists.

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254:29 efficacy. Effective energy.

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255:5 sow tares, etc. See Matthew XII, 24-30.

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255:29 category. A class, condition, or predicament.

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256:14 hurtling. Rushing headlong or confusedly.

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280:10 dislimned. Erased or effaced.

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