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The yearly sum granted by the Parliament of England at the commencement of each reign for the support of the royal household, and to maintain the dignity of the Crown: it amounts now to £385,000.
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The paid service done to the State, exclusive of that of the army and navy.
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A fortified port on the W. coast of Italy, 40 m. NW. of Rome, with a good harbour, founded by Trajan; exports wheat, alum, cheese, etc.
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The smallest county in Scotland, lies between the Ochils and the Forth; rich in minerals, especially coal.
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A village of France, on the Aube, where St. Bernard founded a Cistercian monastery in 1115, and where he lived and was buried; now used as a prison or reformatory.
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The power ascribed to certain persons in a mesmeric state of seeing and describing events at a distance or otherwise invisible.
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A tribe of blood relations descended from a common ancestor, ranged under a chief in direct descent from him, and having a common surname, as in the Highlands of Scotland; at bottom a military organization for defensive and predatory purposes.
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A Fenian organization founded at Philadelphia in 1870, to secure by violence the complete emancipation of Ireland from British control.
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A SW. suburb of London, in the county of Surrey, 4 m. from St. Paul's, and inhabited by a well-to-do middle-class community, originally of evangelical principles, and characterised as the Clapham Set.
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