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Arthur Seat
Language; Encyclopedias
A lion-shaped hill 822 ft., close to Edinburgh on the E., from the top of which the prospect is unrivalled; "the blue, majestic, everlasting ocean, with the Fife hills swelling gradually into the ...
Artemis
Language; Encyclopedias
In the Greek mythology the daughter of Zeus and Leto, twin sister of Apollo, born in the Isle of Delos, and one of the great divinities of the Greeks; a virgin goddess, represented as a huntress ...
Arthur
Language; Encyclopedias
A British prince of wide-spread fame, who is supposed to have lived at the time of the Saxon invasion in the 6th century, whose exploits and those of his court have given birth to the tradition of ...
Artesian wells
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Wells made by boring for water where it is lower than its source, so as to obtain a constant supply of it.
Artemisium
Language; Encyclopedias
A promontory N. of Euboea, near which Xerxes lost part of his fleet, 480 B.C.
Artful Dodger
Language; Encyclopedias
A young thief, an expert in the profession in Dickens' "Oliver Twist."
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