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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Eccles., a ewer, usually of metal, to hold water for washing.
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								A pitcher, a pot for water Ar Kelorn, pinfin, urceus lujiralis Ir - I3ual-pota, bior-phota, eanphota. 
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								Still, one cannot help wondering whether the composer from the first intended to write a sonata and obtained this result ” amphora coepit institui; currente rota cur urceus exit? ” or whether these four movements got into existence without any predestination, and were afterwards put under one cover. Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888 
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								_] [Footnote 48: T. cynocephalus of _Lamarck_ is also met with in Ceylon collections.] [Footnote 49: S. incisus of the Index Testaceologicus (urceus, var. _Sow_. Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836 
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								_] [Footnote 16: T. cynocephalus of _Lamarck_ is also met with in Ceylon collections.] [Footnote 17: S. incisus of the Index Testaceologicus (urceus, var. _Sow_. Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon James Emerson Tennent 1836 
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