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A dungeon or dark cell in a prison; a military lock-up or guardroom; -- now commonly with allusion to the cell (the Black Hole) in a fort at Calcutta, into which 146 English prisoners were thrust by the nabob Suraja Dowla on the night of June 20, 17656, and in which 123 of the prisoners died before morning from lack of air.
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A valuable kind of wood obtained on the shores of the Demerara River in South America, much used for timbers, rails, naves and fellies of wheels, and the like.
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Above the angular bone; supra-angular; -- applied to a bone of the lower jaw in many reptiles and birds.
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The surangular bone.
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See Surangular.
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Assurance.
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Of or pertaining to the calf of the leg; as, the sural arteries.
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A short pause in reading verse; a c/sura.
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Something added or appended, as to a name.
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One of the sections or chapters of the Koran, which are one hundred and fourteen in number.
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A soft twilled silk fabric much used for women's dresses; -- called also surah silk.
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