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  • 1Sponging-house — A sponging house was a one time place of temporary confinement for debtors in the United Kingdom. If someone were to get into debt, their creditor would lay a complaint with the sheriff, the sheriff sent his bailiffs, and the debtor would be… …

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  • 2Insect morphology — Legend of body parts Tagmata : A Head, B Thorax, C Abdomen. 1. antenna 2. ocelli (lower) 3. ocelli (upper) 4. compound eye 5. brain (cerebral ganglia) 6. prothorax …

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  • 3Marshalsea — The prison occupied two locations, the first c. 1329–1811, and the second 1811–1842. The image above is of the first Marshalsea in the 18th century …

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  • 4sponge — [[t]spʌ̱nʤ[/t]] sponges, sponging, sponged 1) N COUNT Sponge is a very light soft substance with lots of little holes in it, which can be either artificial or natural. It is used to clean things or as a soft layer. ...a sponge mattress. 2) N… …

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  • 5sponge — sponge1 [spʌndʒ] n [Date: 1000 1100; : Latin; Origin: spongia, from Greek] 1.) [U and C] a piece of a soft natural or artificial substance full of small holes, which can suck up liquid and is used for washing 2.) a simple sea creature from which… …

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  • 6sponge — 1 noun 1 (C, U) a piece of a soft natural or artificial substance full of small holes, which can suck up liquid and is used for washing: The physio ran onto the field with a wet sponge. 2 (C) a simple sea creature from which natural sponge is… …

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  • 7prostrate — Synonyms and related words: abject, accumbent, adorant, adoring, afflict, aggrieve, all in, anguish, backscratching, beat, beat down, beat up, beaten, bedfast, bedridden, beggarly, bend, blow down, blow over, bone weary, bootlicking, bow and… …

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  • 8List of Coronation Street characters (1961) — Coronation Street characters 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 …

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  • 9destruction — n 1. demolition, wipe out, pulverization, wrecking, wreckage, rack and ruin; razing, gutting, felling, prostration, leveling; pulling down, tearing down, taking down, bringing down, breaking down, throwing down, casting down, beating down,… …

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  • 10Charles Dickens — Dickens redirects here. For other uses, see Dickens (disambiguation). Charles Dickens …

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