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The part of the Court occupied by the lawyers. To get a man's head into chancery is to get it under your arm, where you can pummel it as long as you like, and he cannot get it free…
The nave of a wheel; a boss; also a skid. (Welsh, hob, a swelling, a protuberance; compare also a hwb.) The Americans call Boston, Massachusetts, “The hub [boss] of the solar system.” “…
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