Young Women's Christian Association

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• Young Men's Christian Association

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• Association

  ·noun Mental connection, or that which is mentally linked or associated with a thing. II. Associati...

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• association

  1) In ecclesiastical affairs, a society of the clergy, consisting of a number of pastors of neighbor...

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• Young

  ·superl Having little experience; inexperienced; unpracticed; ignorant; weak. II. Young ·noun The o...

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• young

  A word often used for uninitiated. ♦ Young gentlemen, a general designation for midshipmen, whatev...

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• Christian

  ·adj Pertaining to Christ or his religion; as, Christian people. II. Christian ·adj Pertaining to t...

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• Christian

  The name given by the Greeks or Romans, probably in reproach, to the followers of Jesus. It was firs...

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• christian

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• christian

  A gold Danish coin, value in England from 16 s. to 16 s. 4 d. ...

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• Christian

  The disciples, we are told, (Acts 11:26) were first called Christians at Antioch on the Orontes, som...

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• Young one

  ·add. ·- A young human being; a child; also, a young animal, as a colt. ...

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• Young, Arthur

  (1741-1820) Writer on agriculture, was b. in London, the s. of a Suffolk clergyman. In his early ye...

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• Young, Edward

  (1683-1765) Poet, s. of the Rector of Upham, Hampshire, where he was b. After being at Winchester S...

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• Young Court

  See Young's Buildings1, Church Alley. ...

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• young one

  A familiar expression of contempt for another's ignorance, as "ah! I see you're a young one." How d'...

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• young democracy

  See barnburners. ...

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• young flood

  See flood. ...

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• young ice

  Nearly the same as bay-ice, except that it is only applied to ice very recently formed, or of the pr...

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• young wind

  The commencement of the land or sea breeze. ...

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• Christian Era

  ·add. ·- The era in use in all Christian countries, which was intended to commence with the birth of...

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• Christian Science

  ·add. ·- A system of healing disease of mind and body which teaches that all cause and effect is men...

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• Christian Scientist

  ·add. ·- A believer in Christian Science; one who practices its teachings. ...

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• Christian Seneca

  ·add. ·- Joseph Hall (1574 - 1656), Bishop of Norwich, a divine eminent as a moralist. ...

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• Christian Socialism

  ·add. ·- Any theory or system that aims to combine the teachings of Christ with the teachings of soc...

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• Baptism, Christian

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• christian poney

  A chairman. ...

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• dingey christian

  A mulatto; or any one who has, as the West-Indian term is, a lick of the tar-brush, that is, some ne...

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• American Protective Association

  ·add. ·- A secret organization in the United States, formed in Iowa in 1887, ostensibly for the prot...

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• Sellar, William Young

  (1825-1890) Scholar, b. in Sutherlandshire, his f. being factor to the Duke of Sutherland, ed. at G...

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• Woman's Christian Temperance Union

  ·add. ·- An association of women formed in the United States in 1874, for the advancement of tempera...

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• merry a-se christian

  A whore. ...

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