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Duke d' Aiguillon
Language; Encyclopedias
Corrupt minister of France, previously under trial for official plunder of money, which was quashed, at the corrupt court of Louis XV., and the tool of Mme. Du Barry, with whom he rose and fell ...
Lord Advocate
Language; Encyclopedias
Chief counsel for the Crown in Scotland, public prosecutor of crimes, and a member of the administration in power.
Angostura
Language; Encyclopedias
Capital of the province of Guayana, in Venezuela, 240 m. up the Orinoco; also a medicinal bark exported thence.
Acupressure
Language; Encyclopedias
Checking haemorrhage in arteries during an operation by compressing their orifices with a needle.
