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7 words match “OLIVER”

OLIVER n. 3 definitions
An olive grove. [Obs.] Chaucer.
OLIVERIAN n.
An adherent of Oliver Cromwell. Macaulay.
COMMONWEALTH n.
e form of government established on the death of Charles I., in 1649, which existed under Oliver Cromwell and his son Richard, ending with the abdication of the latter in 1659.
FORLORN n.
forlorn hope; a vanguard. [Obs.] Our forlorn of horse marched within a mile of the enemy. Oliver Cromvell.
PROTECTOR n.
me relation to a college, religious order, etc. Lord Protector (Eng. Hist.), the title of Oliver Cromwell as supreme governor of the British Commonwealth (1653-1658).
PROTECTORATE n.
Government by a protector; -- applied especially to the government of England by Oliver Cromwell.
WIRELESS a.
ough more or less successful researchers were made on the subject by Joseph Henry, Hertz, Oliver Lodge, and others, the first commercially successful system was that of Guglielmo Marconi, patented in March, 1897. Marconi employed electric waves of high frequency set up by an induction coil in an oscillator, these waves…