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6 words match “CENTRY”

CENTRY n.
See Sentry. [Obs.] Gray.
CANON n.
y ecclesiastical authority. Various canons which were made in councils held in the second centry. Hock.
CARBONARO n.
of a secret political association in Italy, organized in the early part of the nineteenth centry for the purpose of changing the government into a republic.
CELESTINE; CELESTINIAN n.
A monk of the austere branch of the Franciscan Order founded by Celestine V. in the 13th centry.
GYPSY n.
vagabond race, whose tribes, coming originally from India, entered Europe in 14th or 15th centry, and are now scattered over Turkey, Russia, Hungary, Spain, England, etc., living by theft, fortune telling, horsejockeying, tinkering, etc. Cf. Bohemian, Romany. Like a right gypsy, hath, at fast and loose, Beguiled me to…
PALISSY a.
g, or of the nature of, a kind of pottery made by Bernard Palissy, in France, in the 16th centry. Palissy ware, glazed pottery like that made by Bernard Palissy; especially, that having figures of fishes, reptiles, etc., in high relief.