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© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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  • by the abbreviation X (Extra, i.e.

  • This is shown by the permanent abbreviation of the proper names Gaius and Gnaeus by C. and Cn.

  • Some are said to maintain that it was an abbreviation of a childish nickname, "le petit volontaire."

  • TURKEY, an abbreviation for Turkey-Cock or Turkey-Hen as the case may be, a well-known large domestic gallinaceous bird.

  • TURKEY, an abbreviation for Turkey-Cock or Turkey-Hen as the case may be, a well-known large domestic gallinaceous bird.

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