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  • 81Morham —    MORHAM, a parish, in the county of Haddington, 3½ miles (S. E. by E.) from Haddington; containing 287 inhabitants. This place appears to have derived its name from its situation at the head of an extensive tract of land which was formerly an… …

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  • 82Mull, Isle —    MULL, ISLE of, in the district of Mull, county of Argyll; containing 10,064 inhabitants. This forms one of the Hebrides, or Western Islands, of which it ranks as the third in extent. It originally constituted part of the dominions of the… …

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  • 83Portobello —    PORTOBELLO, a parliamentary burgh, and lately a quoad sacra parish, chiefly in the parish of Duddingston, but partly in that of South Leith, county of Edinburgh, 3 miles (E.) from Edinburgh; containing 3588 inhabitants. This place, which is… …

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  • 84Ruthwell —    RUTHWELL, a parish, in the county of Dumfries; containing, with the village of Clarencefield, 1032 inhabitants, of whom 162 are in the village of Ruthwell, 7½ miles (W. by N.) from Annan. This parish was called Ryval in the 14th century, in a… …

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  • 85stream — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. river, streamlet, rivulet, rill; gush; trickle; creek, brook, runnel, runlet; current, flow, flux, course, flood, tide, race; shower, outpouring, downpouring. v. i. issue; pour out, forth, or down;… …

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  • 86arise — [OE] Arise is a compound verb with cognate forms in many other Germanic languages (Gothic, for instance, had urreisan). The prefix a originally meant ‘away, out’, and hence was used as an intensive; rise comes from an unidentified Germanic source …

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  • 87derive — late 14c., from O.Fr. deriver to flow, pour out; derive, originate, from L. derivare to lead or draw off (a stream of water) from its source (in L.L. also to derive ), from phrase de rivo (de from + rivus stream; see RIVULET (Cf. rivulet)).… …

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  • 88rio — a river, from Sp. rio, from L. rivus brook, stream (see RIVULET (Cf. rivulet)) …

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  • 89rival — {{11}}rival (n.) 1570s, from L. rivalis a rival, originally, one who uses the same stream (or one on the opposite side of the stream ), from rivus brook (see RIVULET (Cf. rivulet)). The notion is of the competitiveness of neighbors. {{12}}rival… …

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  • 90burn — I. v. a. 1. Consume (with fire), reduce to ashes. 2. Calcine, char, scorch, toast, parch, bake. 3. Injure by fire or heat. 4. Shrivel, cause to wither. 5. Tan, bronze, brown, embrown. II. v. n. 1 …

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