Morning

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• Star, Morning

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• morning gun

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• cob-web morning

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• grey of the morning

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• pride of the morning

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• finish. the finish; a small coffee-house in coven garden, market, opposite russel-street, open very early in the morning, and therefore resorted to by debauchees shut out of every other house: it is also called carpenter's coffee- house.

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