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PAMPHLETS |
Tracts |
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TERRITORIES |
Tracts of land |
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DENES |
Bare sandy tracts |
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TRACTATOR |
One who writes tracts; specif., a Tractarian. |
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DELTAS |
Triangular tracts of sediment at the mouths of rivers |
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STREAM |
To mark with colors or embroidery in long tracts. |
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COLPORTAGE |
The distribution of religious books, tracts, etc., by
colporteurs. |
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COLPORTEUR |
A hawker; specifically, one who travels about selling
and distributing religious tracts and books. |
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PAROSTOSIS |
Ossification which takes place in purely fibrous
tracts; the formation of bone outside of the periosteum. |
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TERETIAL |
Rounded; as, the teretial tracts in the floor of the
fourth ventricle of the brain of some fishes. |
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TRACTARIANISM |
The principles of the Tractarians, or of those
persons accepting the teachings of the "Tracts for the Times." |
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NECK |
A long narrow tract of land projecting from the main body, or
a narrow tract connecting two larger tracts. |
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SAND |
Tracts of land consisting of sand, like the deserts of Arabia
and Africa; also, extensive tracts of sand exposed by the ebb of the
tide. |
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PATROON |
One of the proprietors of certain tracts of land with
manorial privileges and right of entail, under the old Dutch
governments of New York and New Jersey. |
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SAGEBRUSH |
A low irregular shrub (Artemisia tridentata), of the
order Compositae, covering vast tracts of the dry alkaline regions of
the American plains; -- called also sagebush, and wild sage. |
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PROMISE |
To make declaration of or give assurance of, as some
benefit to be conferred; to pledge or engage to bestow; as, the
proprietors promised large tracts of land; the city promised a reward. |
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PUSEYISM |
The principles of Dr. Pusey and others at Oxford,
England, as exhibited in various publications, esp. in a series which
appeared from 1833 to 1... |
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MIDDLEMAN |
...een;
any dealer between the producer and the consumer; in Ireland, one who
takes land of the proprietors in large tracts, and then rents it out ... |
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TRACTARIAN |
One of the writers of the Oxford tracts, called "Tracts
for the Times," issued during the period 1833-1841, in which series of
papers the sacra... |