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(Encyclopedia) transplantation, medical, surgical procedure by which a tissue or organ is removed and replaced by a corresponding part, usually from another part of the body or from another…
A boy and girl, twins. It was once supposed that pigeons always sit on two eggs which produce a male and a female, and these twin birds live together in love the rest of their lives.…
(Oliver). A boy born in a workhouse, starved and ill-treated; but always gentle, amiable, and pureminded. Dickens's novel so called. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…
A notice to all whom it may concern, given in the parish church before ordination, that a resident means to offer himself as a candidate for holy orders; and SI QUIS —i.e. if anyone knows…
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(3 syl.). Banns of marriage. (Anglo-Saxon sibbe, alliance; whence the old English word sibrede, relationship, kindred.) (See Gossip.) For every man it schuldë drede And Nameliche in his…
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