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61Walla-Walla Indians — • A Shahaptian tribe dwelling on the Walla Walla River and the Columbia in Washington and Oregon, from Snake River to the Umatilla Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Walla Walla Indians Walla Walla Indians …
62American Indians — American Indians † Catholic Encyclopedia ► American Indians GENERAL When Columbus landed on the island of San Salvador in 1492 he was welcomed by a brown skinned people whose physical appearance confirmed him in his opinion that… …
63Esdras (Ezra) — Esdras † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Esdras (Or EZRA.) I. ESDRAS THE MAN Esdras is a famous priest and scribe connected with Israel s restoration after the Exile. The chief sources of information touching his life are the… …
64deficit — I noun absence, arrears, balance to pay, dearth, default, deficiency, financial shortage, inadequacy, incompleteness, insufficiency, lack, loss, meagerness, omission, overdraft, paucity, scantiness, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, shortness II… …
65draw away — verb To move away. She looked at me and then turned and glanced at my arm about her, and then she seemed quite suddenly to realize the scantiness of her apparel and drew away, covering her face with her palms and blushing furiously …
66sparingly — adverb In a sparing manner; with frugality, moderation, scantiness, reserve, forbearance, or the like; sparsely …
67paucity — noun a) Fewness in number; a small number. But when I had crossed the threshold, I was astonished at the paucity of facts to be gleaned from the inmates themselves. b) Smallness in size or amount; meagerness. Your tax refund might be late, owing… …
68asteatosis — Diminished or arrested secretion of the sebaceous glands. [G. a priv. + stear (steat ), fat] a. cutis dry, scaly integument with decrease in sebaceous secretion. * * * aste·a·to·sis (as″te ə toґsis) [a 1 + stear + osis] any condition… …
69Francis Leggatt Chantrey — Self portrait of Sir Francis Legatt Chantrey, c. 1810. Sir Francis Leg(g)att Chantrey (7 April 1781 – 25 November 1841) was an English sculptor of the Georgian era. He left the Chantrey Bequest or Chantrey Fund for the purchase of works of art… …
70delinquency — de·lin·quen·cy /di liŋ kwən sē/ n pl cies 1 a: the quality or state of being delinquent b: juvenile delinquency contributing to the delinquency of a minor …
