Chapter XVII

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From this reading The year 1905 had almost run out when this volume was finally decided upon, and then a good many things happened, according to expectation and otherwise.

used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one

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a church associated with a monastery or convent

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

on the subject of; concerning

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

(followed by “to”) in agreement with or accordant with

From this reading The year 1905 had almost run out when this volume was finally decided upon, and then a good many things happened, according to expectation and otherwise.

(of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but

From this reading The year 1905 had almost run out when this volume was finally decided upon, and then a good many things happened, according to expectation and otherwise.

the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

a mechanical device that prevents a vessel from moving

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

spiritual being attendant upon God

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the Latin name for England

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one of the major dialects of Old English

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third-person singular of “arrive” — reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress

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elected vice president and became 21st President of the United States when Garfield was assassinated (1830-1886)

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

at the same time that; because; in the way that

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in or near a particular place or position

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

English statesman; member of the Conservative Party (1848-1930)

From this reading The resignation of Mr. Balfour, with its corollary of a General Election, involved some unavoidable delay in opening this campaign of pilgrimages in East Anglia.

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From this reading Christmas came, surprising the railway companies as usual, but not the public, and the resignation of Mr. Balfour's Government.

damaged by blows or hard usage

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From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

closed to traffic

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

the act of passengers and crew getting aboard a ship or aircraft

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From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

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From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

uncastrated adult male of domestic cattle

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cover from sight

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before

From this reading Christmas came, surprising the railway companies as usual, but not the public, and the resignation of Mr. Balfour's Government.

a university in England

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

inflected form of “come” — move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody

From this reading Christmas came, surprising the railway companies as usual, but not the public, and the resignation of Mr. Balfour's Government.

a race between candidates for elective office

From this reading The resignation of Mr. Balfour, with its corollary of a General Election, involved some unavoidable delay in opening this campaign of pilgrimages in East Anglia.

a place of worship that has its own altar

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6

From this reading Christmas came, surprising the railway companies as usual, but not the public, and the resignation of Mr. Balfour's Government.

one of the groups of Christians who have their own beliefs and forms of worship

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

plural of “company” — an institution created to conduct business

From this reading Christmas came, surprising the railway companies as usual, but not the public, and the resignation of Mr. Balfour's Government.

a practical consequence that follows naturally

From this reading The resignation of Mr. Balfour, with its corollary of a General Election, involved some unavoidable delay in opening this campaign of pilgrimages in East Anglia.

past form of “criticize” — find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

the Crown (or the reigning monarch) as the symbol of the power and authority of a monarchy

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

recognizable; marked

From this reading The year 1905 had almost run out when this volume was finally decided upon, and then a good many things happened, according to expectation and otherwise.

cause to be slowed down or delayed

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

(psychology) an erroneous belief that is held in the face of evidence to the contrary

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

plural of “delusion” — (psychology) an erroneous belief that is held in the face of evidence to the contrary

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

possessive form of “devil” — (Judeo-Christian and Islamic religions) chief spirit of evil and adversary of God; tempter of mankind; master of Hell

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

a word used in exclamations of confusion

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

the past form of “do”, used in questions and negatives

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

lacking in liveliness or animation

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

(slang) offensive term for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

the cardinal compass point that is at 90 degrees

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

a vote to select the winner of a position or political office

From this reading The resignation of Mr. Balfour, with its corollary of a General Election, involved some unavoidable delay in opening this campaign of pilgrimages in East Anglia.

plural of “election” — a vote to select the winner of a position or political office

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

an Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the commonwealth countries

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

an instrumentality needed for an undertaking or to perform a service

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

past form of “except” — take exception to

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

belief about (or mental picture of) the future

From this reading The year 1905 had almost run out when this volume was finally decided upon, and then a good many things happened, according to expectation and otherwise.

quickly or rapidly (often used as a combining form)

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

after an unspecified period of time or an especially long delay

From this reading The year 1905 had almost run out when this volume was finally decided upon, and then a good many things happened, according to expectation and otherwise.

being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

past form of “gain” — obtain

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

applying to all or most members of a category or group

From this reading The resignation of Mr. Balfour, with its corollary of a General Election, involved some unavoidable delay in opening this campaign of pilgrimages in East Anglia.

plural of “glove” — the handwear used by fielders in playing baseball

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified

From this reading The year 1905 had almost run out when this volume was finally decided upon, and then a good many things happened, according to expectation and otherwise.

the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit

From this reading Christmas came, surprising the railway companies as usual, but not the public, and the resignation of Mr. Balfour's Government.

relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

the property possessed by something or someone of outstanding importance or eminence

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the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect

From this reading The year 1905 had almost run out when this volume was finally decided upon, and then a good many things happened, according to expectation and otherwise.

past form of “happen” — come to pass

From this reading The year 1905 had almost run out when this volume was finally decided upon, and then a good many things happened, according to expectation and otherwise.

occupied or in the control of; often used in combination

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solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times

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a building where travelers can pay for lodging and meals and other services

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plural of “hotel” — a building where travelers can pay for lodging and meals and other services

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Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function

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inside something, or within a place, period, or state

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

connected by participation or association or use

From this reading The resignation of Mr. Balfour, with its corollary of a General Election, involved some unavoidable delay in opening this campaign of pilgrimages in East Anglia.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned

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belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned

From this reading The resignation of Mr. Balfour, with its corollary of a General Election, involved some unavoidable delay in opening this campaign of pilgrimages in East Anglia.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

possessive form of “king” — a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

immediately past

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events

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plural of “legend” — a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

a room where books are kept

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weight to be borne or conveyed

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a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by “as” or “too” or “so” or “that”; amounting to a large but indefinite number

From this reading The year 1905 had almost run out when this volume was finally decided upon, and then a good many things happened, according to expectation and otherwise.

the time period between dawn and noon

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

plural of “motorist” — someone who drives (or travels in) an automobile

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a form of address for a man

From this reading Christmas came, surprising the railway companies as usual, but not the public, and the resignation of Mr. Balfour's Government.

make or become more narrow or restricted

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

a long close-fitting coat worn for riding in the 19th century

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the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative

From this reading Christmas came, surprising the railway companies as usual, but not the public, and the resignation of Mr. Balfour's Government.

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

an open or empty space in or between things

From this reading The resignation of Mr. Balfour, with its corollary of a General Election, involved some unavoidable delay in opening this campaign of pilgrimages in East Anglia.

in other respects or ways

From this reading The year 1905 had almost run out when this volume was finally decided upon, and then a good many things happened, according to expectation and otherwise.

not allowed to continue to bat or run

From this reading The year 1905 had almost run out when this volume was finally decided upon, and then a good many things happened, according to expectation and otherwise.

a city in southern England to the northwest of London; site of Oxford University

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

plural of “oyster” — marine mollusks having a rough irregular shell; found on the sea bed mostly in coastal waters

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Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

plural of “parliament” — a legislative assembly in certain countries

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the time that has elapsed

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

plural of “pilgrimage” — a journey to a sacred place

From this reading The resignation of Mr. Balfour, with its corollary of a General Election, involved some unavoidable delay in opening this campaign of pilgrimages in East Anglia.

plural of “pilot” — someone who is licensed to operate an aircraft in flight

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

earlier in time

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in fortunate circumstances financially; moderately rich

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

people in general considered as a whole

From this reading Christmas came, surprising the railway companies as usual, but not the public, and the resignation of Mr. Balfour's Government.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

past form of “quote” — repeat a passage from

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a system of transportation for trains that pull passengers or freight

From this reading Christmas came, surprising the railway companies as usual, but not the public, and the resignation of Mr. Balfour's Government.

acceptance of despair

From this reading Christmas came, surprising the railway companies as usual, but not the public, and the resignation of Mr. Balfour's Government.

an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

plural of “ruin” — an irrecoverable state of devastation and destruction

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

an educational institution

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

English poet and dramatist considered one of the greatest English writers (1564-1616)

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

a perceptible indication of something not immediately apparent (as a visible clue that something has happened)

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

for that reason; with the result that

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

(quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity

From this reading The resignation of Mr. Balfour, with its corollary of a General Election, involved some unavoidable delay in opening this campaign of pilgrimages in East Anglia.

express in speech

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

past form of “squeeze” — to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

take the first step or steps in carrying out an action

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

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From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

plural of “street” — a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

a detailed critical inspection

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

causing surprise or wonder or amazement

From this reading Christmas came, surprising the railway companies as usual, but not the public, and the resignation of Mr. Balfour's Government.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors)

From this reading The year 1905 had almost run out when this volume was finally decided upon, and then a good many things happened, according to expectation and otherwise.

any movable possession (especially articles of clothing)

From this reading The year 1905 had almost run out when this volume was finally decided upon, and then a good many things happened, according to expectation and otherwise.

used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned

From this reading The year 1905 had almost run out when this volume was finally decided upon, and then a good many things happened, according to expectation and otherwise.

used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

the act of going from one place to another

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

accumulated wealth in the form of money or jewels etc.

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

plural of “tree” — a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

impossible to avoid or evade

From this reading The resignation of Mr. Balfour, with its corollary of a General Election, involved some unavoidable delay in opening this campaign of pilgrimages in East Anglia.

plural of “undergraduate” — a university student who has not yet received a first degree

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

a formal word for “on”

From this reading The year 1905 had almost run out when this volume was finally decided upon, and then a good many things happened, according to expectation and otherwise.

occurring or encountered or experienced or observed frequently or in accordance with regular practice or procedure

From this reading Christmas came, surprising the railway companies as usual, but not the public, and the resignation of Mr. Balfour's Government.

by way of; passing through

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

the amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object

From this reading The year 1905 had almost run out when this volume was finally decided upon, and then a good many things happened, according to expectation and otherwise.

the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading The year 1905 had almost run out when this volume was finally decided upon, and then a good many things happened, according to expectation and otherwise.

how something is done or how it happens

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

at the time that

From this reading The year 1905 had almost run out when this volume was finally decided upon, and then a good many things happened, according to expectation and otherwise.

a Caucasian

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase “the whys and wherefores”

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

the coldest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox

From this reading WINTER.

in the company of; together with

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.

a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days

From this reading The year 1905 had almost run out when this volume was finally decided upon, and then a good many things happened, according to expectation and otherwise.

(used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth

From this reading [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trinity Library--The Panhard arrives--Battered at elections--A start--Load and equipment--Undergraduates as pilots--A street blocked--Dull road to Newmarket--Bottisham Church excepted--Delusions about Swaffham Prior and Bulbeck--The Devil's Dyke--Prosperous Newmarket--The Icenhilde Way--A delusion in East Anglia--Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds--A switchback run--Fine trees--Arthur Young quoted--Bury St. Edmunds--Leland, Dickens, Arthur Young--Legends of St. Edmund--Past greatness of Bury--Parliaments held at--The Abbey ruins--Study with Shakespeare--Pickwick at the "Angel"--At the boarding school--Bury via Bayton, Woolpit, and Stowmarket to Ipswich--Night travelling--A legend of Woolpit--Dull Stowmarket--Ipswich at last--Narrow streets and fast tramcars--The "Great White Horse"--Why did Dickens speak so ill of it?--_Quaere_ why the White Horse is an East Anglian sign--The "Crown and Anchor"--Ipswich oysters and gloves.