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11St. Martin of Tours — St. Martin of Tours † Catholic Encyclopedia ► St. Martin of Tours Bishop; born at Sabaria (today Steinamanger in German, or Szombathely in Hungarian), Pannonia (Hungary), about 316; died at Candes, Touraine, most probably in 397. In… …
12Waste — Waste, n. [OE. waste; cf. the kindred AS. w[=e]sten, OHG. w[=o]st[=i], wuost[=i], G. w[ u]ste. See {Waste}, a. & v.] [1913 Webster] 1. The act of wasting, or the state of being wasted; a squandering; needless destruction; useless consumption or… …
13mulga — n Australian an unpleasant situation, experience, etc. Mulga is a native Australian syno nym for acacia and originally denoted an inhospitable or deserted region of bush. Mulga madness is an archaic term for the mental disorientation expe rienced …
14“Medusa’s Coil“ — Novelette (16,950 words); ghostwritten for Zealia Brown Reed Bishop, May–August 1930. First published in WT(January 1939); first collected in Marginalia;corrected text in HM A traveler in Missouri finds himself in a deserted region with night… …
15solitude — n. 1. Loneliness, isolation, seclusion, solitariness, retiredness, recluseness, retirement, privacy, lonely state, lonely life, estrangement from the world. 2. Isolation, seclusion, remoteness. 3. Desert, wilderness, waste, lonely place, deserted …
16desert — I. a. Uninhabited, desolate, forsaken, wild, waste, barren, untilled. II. n. Wilderness, waste, solitude, deserted region. III. n. Deserving, due, merit or demerit. IV. v. a. 1. Forsake, leave, quit, abandon, renounce, leave in the lurch, turn… …
17waste — I. v. a. 1. Decrease, diminish, wear, corrode, use up, prey upon, wear away, consume, wear out, impair gradually, diminish by constant loss. 2. Consume (foolishly), spend, expend, squander, dissipate, lose, misspend, misuse, fool away, fritter… …
18Germany — /jerr meuh nee/, n. a republic in central Europe: after World War II divided into four zones, British, French, U.S., and Soviet, and in 1949 into East Germany and West Germany; East and West Germany were reunited in 1990. 84,068,216; 137,852 sq.… …
19Chickamauga Wars (1776–1794) — The Chickamauga Wars (1776–1794) were a series of raids, campaigns, ambushes, minor skirmishes, and several full scale frontier battles which were a continuation of the Cherokee (Ani Yunwiya, Ani Kituwa, Tsalagi, Talligewi) struggle against… …
20Italy — /it l ee/, n. a republic in S Europe, comprising a peninsula S of the Alps, and Sicily, Sardinia, Elba, and other smaller islands: a kingdom 1870 1946. 57,534,088; 116,294 sq. mi. (301,200 sq. km). Cap.: Rome. Italian, Italia. * * * Italy… …
