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  • 21Bigg — Big Big, Bigg Bigg, n. [OE. bif, bigge; akin to Icel. bygg, Dan. byg, Sw. bjugg.] (Bot.) Barley, especially the hardy four rowed kind. [1913 Webster] Bear interchanges in local use, now with barley, now with bigg. New English Dict. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 22bigg — bigg1 /big/, n. Scot. and North Eng. four rowed barley. Also, big. [1400 50; late ME big, bigge < ON bygg barley, c. OE beow] bigg2 /big/, v.t. big2. * * * …

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  • 23Cephalorrhynchus — For the Cetacean genus, see Cephalorhynchus. Cephalorrhynchus Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae (unranked): Angiosperms (unranked) …

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  • 24bear — I Australian Slang large and hairy homosexual man II Cleveland Dialect List a variety of barley, otherwise called bigg III North Country (Newcastle) Words four rowed barley …

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  • 25bigg — I Cleveland Dialect List a variety of barley, known as four rowed II North Country (Newcastle) Words a coarse kind of barley; properly that variety which has six rows of grain on each ear …

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  • 26bere —   n. four rowed barley …

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  • 27bigg —   n. four rowed barley …

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  • 28bigg — I. ˈbig variant of big V II. noun ( s) Etymology: Middle English byge, from Old Norse bygg barley; akin to Old English bēow barley and perhaps to Greek phyein to bring forth more at be …

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  • 29Charles E. Courtney — For other people of the same name, see Chuck Courtney. Charles Edward Courtney Charles E. Courtney in 1878. Born November 13, 1849 Union Springs, New York Died July 17, 1920 …

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  • 30ship — shipless, adj. shiplessly, adv. /ship/, n., v., shipped, shipping. n. 1. a vessel, esp. a large oceangoing one propelled by sails or engines. 2. Naut. a. a sailing vessel square rigged on all of three or more masts, having jibs, staysails, and a&#8230; …

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