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Adieu, good friend: this is sure the fellow I sent on message from the Parl'ament-- The porter's son--he's still in quest of me, And Skink, that cosen'd him of his red cap Enter RICHARD, like a Serving-man But look about thee, Gloster; who comes yonder?

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  1. noun See catkin.
  2. noun A person with severely deficient intellectual capacity.

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  1. Latin āmentum, strap.
  2. From Latin āmēns, āment-, insane : ā-, ab-, out of; see ab-1 + mēns, mind; see men-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin amentum, a strap or thong, csp. on missile weapons; also, rarely, a shoe-string; from Old Latin apere, bind, fasten, later L. aptus, apt: see apt.
 

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