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A thriving manufacturing town and seaport of Connecticut, U.S., 58 m. NE. from New York.
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Capital of Barbadoes, seat of the government, the bishop, a college, etc.; it has suffered frequently from hurricane and fever.
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A watering-place in Yorkshire, 6 m. SW. of Flamborough Head, with a chalybeate spring.
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A thriving, third, commercially speaking, town in Prussian Silesia, 25 m. SE. of Breslau.
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A body of troops under a general officer, called brigadier, consisting of a number of regiments, squadrons, or battalions.
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A powerful British tribe that occupied the country between the Humber and the Roman Wall.
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A much-frequented watering-place in Sussex, 50 m. S. of London, of which it is virtually a suburb; a place of fashionable resort ever since George IV. took a fancy to it; a fine parade extends along the whole length of the sea front; has many handsome edifices, a splendid aquarium, a museum, schools of science and art, public library and public gallery; the principal building is the Pavilion or Marine Palace, originally built for George IV. Also the name of a suburb of Melbourne.
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