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               An electronic field-marked version of:

              Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
                      Version published 1913
                    by the  C. & G. Merriam Co.
                        Springfield, Mass.
                      Under the direction of
                     Noah Porter, D.D., LL.D.

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