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11Gab — Gab, n. [OE. gabbe gabble, mocking, fr. Icel. gabb mocking, mockery, or OF. gab, gabe; perh. akin to E. gape, or gob. Cf. {Gab}, v. i., {Gibber}.] The mouth; hence, idle prate; chatter; unmeaning talk; loquaciousness. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]… …
12Gift of gab — Gab Gab, n. [OE. gabbe gabble, mocking, fr. Icel. gabb mocking, mockery, or OF. gab, gabe; perh. akin to E. gape, or gob. Cf. {Gab}, v. i., {Gibber}.] The mouth; hence, idle prate; chatter; unmeaning talk; loquaciousness. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster] …
13Edgar Quinet — (February 17, 1803 ndash;March 27, 1875) was a French historian and intellectual.BiographyEarly yearsBorn at Bourg en Bresse, in the département of Ain. His father, Jérôme Quinet, had been a commissary in the army, but being a strong republican… …
14Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate — (December 23, 1819 December 24, 1889), Dutch divine, prose writer and poet, was born at The Hague.He started in life as a lawyer s clerk. It was his friend, Dr Heldring, pastor at Hemmen, in Gelderland, who, discovering in Ten Kate the germs of… …
15Richard Arden, 1st Baron Alvanley — Sir Richard Pepper Arden, 1st Baron Alvanley PC, KC (20 May 1744 – 19 March 1804) was a British barrister and politician.He was born on 20 May 1744 in Bredbury, the son of John Arden and Mary Pepper, and baptised on 20 June 1744 in Stockport.… …
16Mathematical maturity — is an informal term used by mathematicians to refer to a mixture of mathematical experience and insight that cannot be directly taught. Instead, it comes from repeated exposure to mathematical concepts. Definitions Mathematical maturity has been… …
17Joseph ben Samuel Bonfils — (lived in the middle of the eleventh century) was a French rabbi, Talmudist, Bible commentator, and payyeṭan . Of his life nothing is known but that he came from Narbonne, and was rabbi of Limoges in the province of Anjou [See Jacob Tam s Sefer… …
18Thomas Kilby Smith — Thomas Kilby Smith † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Thomas Kilby Smith Born at Boston, Mass., 23 Sept., 1820; died at New York, 14 Dec., 1887; eldest son of Captain George Smith and Eliza Bicker Walter. Both his paternal and maternal… …
19Vincent Louis Gotti — Vincent Louis Gotti † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Vincent Louis Gotti Cardinal and theologian, b. at Bologna, 5 Sept., 1664; d. in Rome, 18 Sept., 1742. He received part of his early education from the Jesuits, and at the age of sixteen… …
20fluency — n. 1. Smoothness, flowing quality, liquidness. 2. Copiousness, affluence, readiness of speech, ready utterance, command of language, facility of expression, gift of the gab (colloq.) …