Webster
['wɛbstɚ]
Definition
(noun.) United States lexicographer (1758-1843).
(noun.) United States politician and orator (1782-1817).
(noun.) English playwright (1580-1625).
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Definition
(n.) A weaver; originally, a female weaver.
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Definition
n. (obs.) a weaver.
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Examples
- It was metal, ‘elastic metal,’ as Daniel Webster termed it, that could be wound round the finger, or tied into a knot, and which preserved its elasticity like steel. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Sir Richard Webster, now Chief-Justice of England, was my counsel, and sustained all of my patents in England for many years. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Webster, of my staff, had arranged twenty or more pieces of artillery facing south or up the river. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Webster has a marvellous capacity for understanding things scientific; and his address before the courts was lucidity itself. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The corner stones of the extension were laid by President Fillmore in 1851, Daniel Webster being the orator of the occasion, and the wings were finished in 1867. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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