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  • 121Heyward, DuBose — ▪ American writer in full  Edwin Dubose Heyward   born Aug. 31, 1885, Charleston, S.C., U.S. died June 16, 1940, Tryon, N.C.       American novelist, dramatist, and poet whose first novel, Porgy (1925), was the basis for a highly successful play …

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  • 122Zero stroke — or cipher stroke was a term used to describe a mental disorder reportedly diagnosed by physicians in Germany under the Weimar Republic and which was caused by hyperinflation that occurred in the early 1920s. The disorder was primarily… …

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  • 123Neoromicia malagasyensis — Conservation status Endangered (IUCN 3.1)[1] …

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  • 124arrange — [14] Arrange is a French formation: Old French arangier was a compound verb formed from the prefix a and the verb rangier ‘set in a row’ (related to English range and rank). In English its first, and for a long time its only meaning was ‘array in …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 125arrange — (v.) late 14c., draw up a line of battle, from O.Fr. arengier (12c.), from a to (see AD (Cf. ad )) + rangier set in a row (Mod.Fr. ranger), from rang rank, from Frankish *hring (see RANK (Cf. rank) (n.)) …

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  • 126domino — 1801, from Fr. domino (1771), perhaps (on comparison of the black tiles of the game) from the meaning hood with a cloak worn by canons or priests (1690s), from L. dominus lord, master (see DOMAIN (Cf. domain)), but the connection is not clear.… …

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  • 127battery — noun 1) insert fresh batteries Syn: storage cell, cell 2) a gun battery Syn: emplacement, artillery unit; cannonry, ordnance 3) a battery of equipment Syn …

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  • 128series — noun 1) a series of lectures Syn: succession, sequence, string, chain, run, round; spate, wave, rash; set, course, cycle; row, line; formal concatenation 2) a new TV series …

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