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Excerpt from A Complete Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 1 of 2: Both With Regard to Sound and Meaning; One Main Object of Which Is, to Establish a Plain and Permanent Standard of Pronunciation; To Which Is Prefixed a Prosodial Grammar
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