Connecticut
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Definition
(noun.) a New England state; one of the original 13 colonies.
(noun.) one of the British colonies that formed the United States.
(noun.) a river in the northeastern United States; flows south from northern New Hampshire along the border between New Hampshire and Vermont and through Massachusetts and Connecticut where it empties into Long Island Sound.
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Examples
- In 1635 he moved to what is now Windsor, Connecticut, and was the surveyor for that colony for more than forty years. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He fought all through the long War of Independence--seven years--and then appears to have settled down at Stonington, Connecticut. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Nine years later, Samuel Slocum, of Connecticut, invented a new machine for sticking the pins on papers. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It would not require a Connecticut man to guess the price finally agreed upon. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- At the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876, Wallace-Farmer dynamos built at Ansonia, Connecticut, were shown, with the current from which arc lamps were there put in actual service. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The elder, Solomon, remained with his relatives in Connecticut until old enough to do for himself, when he emigrated to the British West Indies. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Born with the century, in New Haven, Connecticut, and receiving but a public school education, he engaged with his father in the hardware business in Philadelphia. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Apparently little or no lighting service was obtained from the Wallace-Farmer arc lamps secured from Ansonia, Connecticut. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Yale College, in Connecticut, had before made me a similar compliment. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- In 1817 he married Henrietta Edwards, the daughter of Judge Pierpont Edwards, of Connecticut. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Connecticut is the most productive State in invention in proportion to its people, and Edison is the most prolific inventor. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In Connecticut and Rhode Island, they elected the governor. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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