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  • 1codger — n. 1. Miser, niggard, churl, curmudgeon, lick penny, skinflint, scrimp, hunks, screw, muckworm. 2. (Colloq.) Queer old fellow, eccentric chap, odd stick …

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  • 2P. G. Wodehouse minor characters — Lists of P. G. Wodehouse characters Characters in all Wodehouse stories Characters in the Blandings stories Characters in the Drones Club stories Characters in the Jeeves stories Characters in the Mulliner stories Characters in the Ukridge… …

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  • 3literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …

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  • 4Hayford Peirce — Infobox Writer name = Hayford Peirce caption = Hayford Peirce in his Tucson office in 2006. pseudonym = birthdate = birth date and age|1942|1|7 birthplace = Bangor, Maine, USA deathdate = deathplace = occupation = Writer of science fiction,… …

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  • 5Minor characters in the Blandings stories — The following is an incomplete compendium of the fictional characters featured in the Blandings Castle stories of P. G. Wodehouse, in alphabetical order by surname. Lady Georgiana Alcester One of Lord Emsworth s many sisters, Lady Alcester is… …

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  • 6List of minor Blandings characters — Lists of P. G. Wodehouse characters Characters in all Wodehouse stories Characters in the Blandings stories Characters in the Drones Club stories Characters in the Jeeves stories Characters in the Mulliner stories Characters in the Ukridge… …

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  • 7Ellipse — Elliptical redirects here. For the exercise machine, see Elliptical trainer. This article is about the geometric figure. For other uses, see Ellipse (disambiguation). Not to be confused with ellipsis. An ellipse obtained as the intersection of a… …

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  • 8List of ships of the Culture setting — This is a list of spaceships found in the Culture novels by Iain M. Banks. Most ships in this list are members of The Culture, the hybrid society featured in many of these novels. In this setting, each Culture ship, and some others, is also an… …

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  • 9excentrique — [ ɛksɑ̃trik ] adj. et n. • 1361; lat. médiév. excentricus « qui est hors du centre » I ♦ 1 ♦ Adj. Dont le centre s écarte d un point donné. Géom. Courbes, cercles excentriques, renfermés les uns dans les autres et de centres différents. ♢ Cour.… …

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  • 10Moral realism — This article is about moral realism in the robust sense. For moral realism in the moderate or minimal sense, see Moral universalism. Moral realism is the meta ethical view which claims that: Ethical sentences express propositions. Some such… …

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