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“Dr. Drama, he sued me to cover, was discovered to be true, hence paid him nothing as he orig. requested,” she wrote.
From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 2014
Title of orig. publication: The Lungfish and the unicorn.
From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1975 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office
The word seems to have orig. meant to choke, squeeze.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
The word was orig. written with Sín but changed for easier articulation to Sád, one of the four Hurúf al-Mutabbakát, "the flattened," formed by the broadened tongue in contact with the palate.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 04 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Hundred, hun′dred, n. the number of ten times ten: a division of a county in England, orig. supposed to contain a hundred families.—adjs.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
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