News-letter

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• News

  ·noun Something strange or newly happened. II. News ·noun A bearer of news; a courier; a newspaper....

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• news

  "Do you hear the news?" A formula used in turning up the relief watch. ...

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• Letter

  ·noun One who retards or hinders. II. Letter ·noun Learning; erudition; as, a man of letters. III....

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• Letter

  In Rom. 2:27, 29 means the outward form. The "oldness of the letter" (7:6) is a phrase which denotes...

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• News-book

  ·noun A <<Newspaper>>. ...

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• News-vnder

  ·noun A seller of newspapers. ...

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• News-writer

  ·noun One who gathered news for, and wrote, news-letters. ...

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• Black letter

  ·- The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the fi...

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• Black-letter

  ·adj Written or printed in black letter; as, a black-letter manuscript or book. II. Black-letter ·a...

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• Night letter

  ·add. ·- ·Alt. of Night lettergram. ...

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• Red-letter

  ·adj Of or pertaining to a red letter; marked by red letters. ...

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• Sea letter

  ·- The customary certificate of national character which neutral merchant vessels are bound to carry...

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• dead letter

  A writing or precept without any authority or force; a letter left in a post office and not called f...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• letter-board

  Another term for name-board (which see). ...

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• letter-book

  A book wherein is preserved a copy of all letters and orders written by the captain of a ship on pub...

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• letter men

  See king's letter men. ...

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• sea-letter

  See passport. ...

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• grub street news

  Lying intelligence. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• red letter day

  A saint's day or holiday, marked in the calendars with red letters. Red letter men; Roman Catholics:...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• king's letter men

  An extinct class of officers, of similar rank with midshipmen. The royal letter was a kind of promis...

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