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• Remember

  ·vt To <<Mention>>. II. Remember ·vi To execise or have the power of memory; as, some remember bett...

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• remember

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• Parson

  ·noun Any clergyman having ecclesiastical preferment; one who is in orders, or is licensed to preach...

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• parson

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• grey parson

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• parson palmer

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• wet parson

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• parson-bird

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• grey-parson

  a layman who owns or rents the tythes of a parish. Norf. Called elsewhere Knights of the Grey-coat, ...

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• west-country parson

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• isle of wight parson

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• Left by Thomas Hinde, 1635, to the parson and churchwardens of the parish (End. Ch. St. Peter, 1903, p. 2).

  No later mention. Named after an owner or builder. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.