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Purcell Mountains The Purcell Mountains are a mountain range in British Columbia, Canada, located on the west side of the Columbia Valley and on the east side of the valley of Kootenay Lake. The only large settlement in the mountains is the Panorama Ski Resort, although a large destination resort at Jumbo Mountain is currently in the proposal stage.
Purcell Room The Purcell Room is a concert and performance venue which forms part of the Southbank Centre, one of central London's leading cultural complexes. It is named after the 17th century English composer Henry Purcell and has 370 seats.
Purcell Society The Purcell Society (founded in 1876) is an organization dedicated to making the complete musical works of Henry Purcell available. Between 1876 and 1965, scores of all the known works of Purcell were published, in 32 volumes.
Purcell's Cove, Nova Scotia Purcell's Cove is a community within the Halifax Regional Municipality Nova Scotia Canada on the west side of Halifax Harbour from the Northwest Arm to Ferguson's Cove along Nova Scotia Route 253 . The first 3 digits of the postal code in the area is B3P.
Purcell, Oklahoma Purcell, Oklahoma, known as "The Heart of Oklahoma", is a small city of 5,858 (2005 Census estimate, 5,571 in 2000) in central Oklahoma situated on a bluff overlooking the South Canadian river. It is an outer suburb of the Oklahoma City Metropolitan Area, a short distance south of Norman, and The University of Oklahoma.
Purdah Purdah or Pardaa (Persian/Urdu: پردہ, Hindi: पर्दा literally meaning "curtain") is the practice of preventing men from seeing women. This takes two forms: physical segregation of the sexes and requiring women to cover their bodies so as to cover their skin and conceal their form.
Purdue All-American Marching Band The Purdue All-American Marching Band is the marching band of Purdue University. The Purdue All-American Marching Band (AAMB) is the primary source of auxiliary entertainment for Purdue University football games.
Purdue Boilermakers Boilermakers is the official moniker for the intercollegiate athletic teams of Purdue University. As is common with athletic nicknames, it is also used as colloquial designation of Purdue's students and alumni at large.
Purdue Exponent The Purdue Exponent is one of a handful of daily independent student newspapers, with most other college newspapers being owned by the university or operated by the journalism school. The college newspaper serves Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.
Purdue Research Park Purdue Research Park is a 591-acre research park located in West Lafayette, Indiana, less than 3 miles north of Purdue University's West Lafayette campus. The park is under the continuing development of the Purdue Research Foundation and is currently is the largest certified technology park in Indiana.
Purdue Review The Purdue Review is an independent student newspaper at Purdue University that publishes content from conservative and moderate viewpoints. It has no official affiliation with the University or the Purdue Exponent.
Purdue University Horticulture Gardens The Purdue University Horticulture Gardens (0.5 acres) are botanical gardens located on the Purdue University campus, adjacent to the Horticulture Building at 625 Agriculture Mall Drive, West Lafayette, Indiana.
Purdy's (Metro-North station) The Purdy's Metro-North station serves the residents of Purdy's, a hamlet in North Salem, New York, via the Harlem Line. It is 46 miles (74 km) to Grand Central and the average travel time to Grand Central is 1 hour, 12 minutes.
Purdy's Wharf Purdy's Wharf is an office complex in downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. It consists of two office buildings and a smaller office structure called Purdy's Landing, commonly referred to as the "Xerox building", due to the large Xerox sign that used to hang on the exterior of the building.
Purdy, Washington Purdy is a small unincorporated community north of the city of Gig Harbor, on the northern boundary of Pierce County, Washington. The community was named for a Tacoma, Washington businessman who donated the materials to construct a schoolhouse for the community.
Pure and Simple "Pure and Simple" is a popular song, released as the debut single by Hear'Say, the original winners of Popstars. It was released as a double A-side with "Bridge Over Troubled Water", which was a fan favourite at the live shows.
Pure autonomic failure Pure autonomic failure, also known as Bradbury-Eggleston syndrome or idiopathic orthostatic hypotension, is a form of dysautonomia that first occurs in middle age or later in life; men are affected more often than women. It is one of three diseases classified as primary autonomic failure.
Pure blood (vampire) In the fictional universe of Blade, vampires are divided into two specific species categories: pure blood and non-pure blood (turned), which in turn, carries with it a specific connotation that is reflected in their society and hierarchy. As seen in the Blade Trilogy and in Blade: The Series, pure bloods are born-vampires, offspring that were conceived between two pure blood vampires.
Pure culture In experimental biology, an axenic or pure culture is a population of cells or multicellular organisms growing in the absence of other species or types. A pure culture may originate from a single cell or single organism, in which case the cells are genetic clones of one another.
Pure Data Pure Data (or Pd) is a graphical programming language developed by Miller Puckette in the 1990s for the creation of interactive computer music and multimedia works. Though Puckette is the primary author of the software, Pd is an open source project and has a large developer base working on new extensions to the program.
Pure Dead series The Pure Dead series, by Scottish writer Debi Gliori, follows the Strega Borgia family, a quirky, bizarre, Italian family, Signor and Signora Strega-Borgia (Luciano and Baci.) and their four children, Titus, Pandora, Damp and Nieve, who live with their mythical companions in their fictitious home StregaSchloss, in Argyll.
Pure Digital Pure Digital is a British consumer electronics company, based in Kings Langley, Hertfordshire. The company specialises in digital radios using the DAB system which are widely marketed in UK stores and via online suppliers.
Pure fusion weapon A pure fusion weapon is a hypothetical hydrogen bomb design that does not need a fission "primary" explosive to ignite the fusion of deuterium and tritium, two heavy isotopes of hydrogen (see Teller-Ulam design for more information about fission-fusion weapons). For many years, nuclear weapons designers have researched whether it is possible to create high enough temperatures and pressures inside a confined space to fuse together deuterium and tritium for the purposes of a developing such a weapon.
Pure Food and Drug Act The Pure Food and Drug Act of June 30, 1906 is a United States federal law that provided for federal inspection of meat products, and forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated food products or poisonous patent medicines. The Act arose due to public education and propaganda from people such as authors Upton Sinclair and Samuel Hopkins Adams, social activist Florence Kelley, researcher Harvey W.
Pure Food and Drug Act (band) Pure Food and Drug Act was a band formed in the early 1970's based on the talent and charisma of Don Sugarcane Harris. The band began with Paul Lagos (sideman with Johnny Otis, John Mayall ) on drums, Larry Taylor (original member Canned Heat, sideman John Mayall, Tom Waits on bass and Randy Resnick on guitar.
Pure Fucking Armageddon Pure Fucking Armageddon is a demo album by the Norwegian black metal band Mayhem. The first five tracks are from the original demo Voice of a Tortured Skull and tracks 6 to 9 from the Pure Fucking Armageddon rehearsal demo.
Pure Church of Christ The Pure Church of Christ was organized in 1831 in Kirtland, Ohio by Wycam Clark, Northrop Sweet and four others who claimed that Joseph Smith, Jr was a false prophet. They had a few meetings and soon disbanded.
Pure Imagination "Pure Imagination" is a song from the 1971 movie Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. It was written by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley specifically for the movie and does not appear in the original book by Roald Dahl.
Pure Land Buddhism Pure Land Buddhism (Chinese: , Jìngtǔzōng; Japanese: 浄土宗, Jōdoshū; Korean: , jeongtojong; Vietnamese: 浄土宗, ), also known as Amidism, is a branch of Mahayana Buddhism and currently one of the more popular schools of Buddhism in East Asia, along with Chan. It is a devotional or "faith"-oriented branch of Buddhism focused on Amitabha Buddha.
Pure mate A pure mate is a checkmating position in chess in which the mated king and all vacant squares in its field are attacked only once, and squares in the king's field occupied by friendly units are not also attacked by the mating side (unless such a unit is necessarily pinned to the king to avoid it interposing to block the check or capturing of mating unit).
Pure mathematics Broadly speaking, pure mathematics is mathematics motivated entirely for reasons other than application. From the eighteenth century onwards, this was a recognized category of mathematical activity, sometimes characterised as speculative mathematics, and at variance with the trend towards meeting the needs of navigation, astronomy, physics, engineering, and so on.
Pure play The phrase pure play refers to a company with a single business focus, and the stock price of which is "highly correlated with the fortunes of a specific investing theme or niche". Coca-Cola is an example of a pure play in this context because it retails only beverages.
Pure pot still whiskey Pure pot still whiskey is an Irish whiskey made from barley and distilled in a pot still. It is similar to Irish single malt whiskey, however, the grain used to make the spirit is a combination of malted and unmalted barley, while a single malt is made of only malted grain.
Pure Prairie League Pure Prairie League is a popular American soft rock and country rock band founded in 1969 in Waverly, Ohio by Craig Fuller, Tom McGrail, Jim Caughlan, and John David Call, and active in the 1970s and early 1980s. Their biggest hits include "Let Me Love You Tonight" and "Amie".
Pure qubit state In quantum information processing, a pure qubit state is a non-zero superposition of two basis states, conventionally written in bra-ket notation notation as | 0 rangle and | 1 rangle . Two pure qubit states are physically indistinguishable iff they are multiples of each other.
Pure Reason Revolution Pure Reason Revolution is a British Rock group formed at the University of Westminster in 2003, whose music incorporates elements of progressive rock and grunge rock, while its vocal harmonies are reminiscent of The Beach Boys. It has been variously described as 'Astral Folk' and 'New Prog'.
Pure science Pure science, also called basic science, is the exact science of the development of scientific theories. This research is done at times without consideration of their application, and at other times aims to answer phenomena and possible mechanisms proposed in applied science.
Pure security A pure security or primitive security is a security that pays 1 currency unit at the end of the period if one particular state of nature is realized and pays nothing if any other state is realized. Market securities can be thought of as portfolios of pure securities, which is a useful abstraction facilitating analysis in many economic contexts.
Pure sociology Pure Sociology is a controversial approach developed by Donald Black, initially to explain variation in legal behavior and later applied to a broad range of forms of conflict management as well as to the distribution of ideas, science, art, and God, by Black as well as a growing school of Blackian Sociologists.
Pure spinor In a field of mathematics known as representation theory pure spinors are spinor representations of the special orthogonal group that are annihilated by the largest possible subspace of the Clifford algebra. They were introduced by Elie Cartan in the 1930's to classify complex structures.
Pure strategy A pure strategy is a term used to refer to strategies in Game theory. Each player is given a set of strategies, if a player chooses to take one action with probability 1 then that player is playing a pure strategy.
Pure Soul pure soul is the 4th released album from the Japanese rock band, GLAY. This album marks the beginning of the bands golden era; in the next six years GLAY experienced a strong presence in the Japanese pop scene, and broke many concert selling records.
Pure Tone Music Pure Tone Music is an A&R consulting firm formed in late 2003 by major label A&R veteran Pete Ganbarg. Based in Westwood, NJ, Pure Tone works with its different major label and artist clients to help conceive, construct and oversee all creative aspects of the record making process.
Pure Trance is a Japanese comic (manga) by the Japanese artist Junko Mizuno, which was published in Japan in 1998. It was her first full-length manga story, which was created for the "Pure Trance" techno compilation CD series.
Pure word deafness Pure Word Deafness is caused by damage to Wernicke's area or disruption of auditory input to this region. Exhibits itself as inability to comprehend the meaning of speech, but (in most cases) still being able to hear, speak, read and write.
Pure Wrestling Association The Pure Wrestling Association is a independent professional wrestling promotion based out of Cambridge, Ontario. PWA runs events in Camrbridge, Ontario, Brantford, Ontario (weekly shows), Goderich Ontario, Port Colborne, Ontario, and Guelph, Ontario in Canada.
Pure:dyne pure:dyne is a modified version of the [Linux Live CD] distributon. It is dedicated to live audiovisual processing and streaming, and focusses largely on the [[Pure Data audio synthesis system, although it also includes SuperCollider, Csound as well as live video-processing systems such as Packet Forth and Fluxus.
Purebred Purebreds, also called purebreeds or pedigreed, are cultivated varieties or cultivars of a species, achieved through the process of selective breeding. When the lineage of a purebred is recorded, that animal is said to be pedigreed.
Puree sieve A puree sieve is food preparation utensil for mashing vegetables. Typically, a puree sieve consists of three parts: a bottomless bowl, an interchangeable bottom with holes much like those in a colander, and a crank.
Pureland Industrial Complex Pureland Industrial Complex is a 3,000 acre (12 km²) industrial park located in Logan Township in Gloucester County, New Jersey, United States. It borders the Delaware River and Raccoon Creek, and is located 12 miles (19 km) south of the ports of Camden and Philadelphia.
Pureland origami Pureland origami is a style of origami invented by the British paperfolder John Smith which is limited to using only mountain and valley folds. The aim of Pureland Origami is to make origami easier for inexperienced folders and those who have impaired motor skills.
Purely Belter Purely Belter is a 2000 film directed by Mark Herman about two teenagers (Chris Beattie and Greg McLane) trying to get money by any means necessary, in order to get season tickets for home games played by the FA Premier League football team Newcastle United.
Purely functional Purely functional is a term in computing used to describe algorithms, data structures or programming languages that exclude destructive modifications (updates). As a consequence of this restriction, variables refer to immutable, persistent values.
Pureness "Pureness" is Aya Ueto's solo debut single. "Pureness" peaked at #4 selling 46,140 copies its first week but on August 31 2002, it managed to climb to #1 beating Ken Hirai's "Ookina Furudokei" and BoA's "VALENTI" for that day.
Purest Feeling Purest Feeling is a bootleg of the original demo version of Nine Inch Nails' debut album, Pretty Hate Machine, that was recorded at the Right Track Studio in November 1988 by Trent Reznor, whilst he was still working as a cleaner there. It was released as a CD in 1994 by Hawk Records.
PureTnA PureTnA is a BitTorrent community focused on the sharing of pornographic media files, it includes a forum with standard features, such as a requests thread (for requesting specific torrents) and a reseed thread. It claims to have about 1,130,000 registered users and around 23,500 seeded torrents.
PureVolume PureVolume is a website for rising bands and musical artists to promote themselves. Each artist/band has its own miniature website which usually includes news, photos, upcoming shows, background/biographical information, contact information, and music for free listening and downloads.
Purgatori Purgatori is a fictional comic book character, a voluptuous, crimson-skinned, winged vampire goddess. She was created by writer Brian Pulido and artist Steven Hughes, and first appeared in Lady Death #3 (March 1994), published by Chaos!
Purgatorial society A purgatorial society is any of numerous pious associations or confraternities in the Roman Catholic Church, which have as their purpose to assist in every possible way the poor souls in purgatory. The Catholic doctrine concerning purgatory, the condition of the poor souls after death (particular judgment), the communion of saints, and the satisfactory value of our good works form the basis of these associations.
Purgatorius Purgatorius is the genus of the three paleospecies believed to be the earliest example of a primate or a proto-primate, a primatomorph precursor to the Plesiadapiformes. Remains were discovered in what is now Montana in deposits believed to be about 65 million years old.
Purgatory Purgatory is a doctrine in the Roman Catholic Church, which posits that those who die in a state of grace undergo a purification in order to achieve the holiness necessary to enter heaven.Catechism of the Catholic Church 1030; see also This purification of the elect, while traditionally seen a fiery punishment for sins, is declared to be entirely different from the punishment of the damned] in [[hell.
Purgatory (song) "Purgatory" is Iron Maiden's fifth single and second single from the Killers album. This song is a remake of a very early Iron Maiden song originally called "Floating" which they used to play live during 1976 to 1977.
Purge In history and political science, to purge is to remove people considered by the group in power to be "undesirable" from a government, political party, a profession, or from community or society as a whole, often by violent means. Restoration of people from a purge is known as rehabilitation.
Purchase justification reflex Purchase Justification Reflex (PJR) is a theoretical psychological condition in which the purchaser praises a recently purchased item in order to make themselves feel better about the purchase, which they regret in some respect.
Purchase line The Purchase Line is the name commonly given to the line dividing Indian from British Colonial lands established in the Treaty of Fort Stanwix of 1768 in western Pennsylvania. In New York State documents it is referred to as the Line of Property; see that article for the treaty text and other sections.
Purchase order A Purchase Order (abbreviated PO) is a commercial document issued by a buyer to a seller, indicating the type, quantities and agreed prices for products or services that the seller will provide to the buyer. Sending a PO to a supplier constitutes a legal offer to buy products or services.
Purchase Records Purchase Records is a small record label started in 2000 by Joe Ferry, Jim Mcelwaine and Karl Kramer, to showcase the talents of the students and faculty at the Purchase College Conservatory of Music. Despite only having released 5 records, the label has already garnered 3 Grammy nominations for Best Contemporary Folk Album, 2000; Best Classical Vocal Performance, 2001; and Best Classical Keyboard Performance, 2002.
Purchasers of Forfeited Estates, Ireland Act 1702 The Purchasers of Forfeited Estates, Ireland Act 1702 was an Act of Parliament of the Parliament of England. Its long title is "An act for the relief of the protestant purchasers of the forfeited estates in Ireland" and its citation is 1 Anne c.
Purchasing Purchasing refers to a function in business whereby the enterprise obtains the inputs for what it produces, as well as other goods and services it requires. In larger businesses, the function is frequently carried out in a purchasing department, headed by a purchasing manager.
Purchasing and Supply Purchasing and Supply can have several different definitions. According to the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) purchasing is defined as a major function of an organization] that is responsible for acquisition of required materials, services, and equipment.
Purchasing cooperative A purchasing cooperative is a type of cooperative arrangement, often among businesses, to agree to aggregate demand to get lower prices from selected suppliers. Retailers' cooperatives are a form of purchasing cooperative.
Purchasing Managers Index The PMI is a composite index that is based on five major indicators including: new orders, inventory levels, production, supplier deliveries, and the employment environment. Each indicator has a different weight and the data is adjusted for seasonal factors.
Purchasing power In economics, purchasing power refers to the amount money — or, more generally, liquid assets — can buy. As Adam Smith noted, having money gives one the ability to "command" others' labor, so purchasing power to some extent is power over other people, to the extent that they are willing to trade their labor or goods for money.
Purchasing power parity Purchasing power parity (PPP) is in economics the method of using the long-run equilibrium exchange rate of two currencies to equalize the currencies' purchasing power. It is based on the law of one price, the idea that, in an efficient market, identical goods must have only one price.
Puri (food) A puri or poori is an Indian unleavened bread made from a dough of atta (whole grain durum wheat flour), water and salt by rolling it out into discs of approximately 12 cm diameter and deep frying it in ghee or vegetable oil. Traditionally served in South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka) it is best eaten if it is served immediately.
Purification Rundown The Purification Rundown, known as "The Purif" within Scientology, is a program used by the Church of Scientology which, according to the church, results in detoxification, and was developed by Scientology's founder L. Ron Hubbard.
Purified water Purified water can come from any source, including spring water, well water, seawater, or municipal water. This source water is then processed by reverse osmosis or deionization to produce a water that is indistinguishable from distilled water from any other source.
Purikura Purikura is a term of Japanese origin meaning either a type of photo booth or the product (a decorated photograph commonly measuring 1 inch by 1/2 inch) of such a photo booth. The name (written プリクラ in Japanese) is a shortened form of purinto kurabu (プリント倶楽部, a registered trademark): the quasi-English term is "print club" in Japanese pronunciation.
Purim Purim (Hebrew: פורים Pûrîm "lots", from Akkadian pūru) is a joyous Jewish holiday that commemorates the deliverance of all the Jews at the time who were living under the authority of the Persian Empire, resulting from the Babylonian captivity (after Persia had conquered Babylonia), from Haman's plot to exterminate them, as recorded in the Biblical Book of Esther. It is characterized by public recitation of the Book of Esther, giving mutual gifts of food and drink, giving charity to the poor, and a celebratory meal (Esther 9:22); other customs include drinking alcohol, wearing of masks and costumes, and public celebration.
Purim spiel A Purim Spiel, or Purim Shpiel, meaning a Purim play (shpiel: a lengthy, often instructive talk -- from Yiddish שפּיל shpil and German Spiel "play" -- see List of English words of Yiddish origin.) See also [Thus "spiel" means to play (as in child's play) or to act, (as in stage acting.
Purim torah Purim Torah is a term used to describe humorous and satirical writings customarily read on the Jewish holiday of Purim. They can be simple or elaborate, and require no qualifications to write, other than a good sense of humour.
Purinergic receptor Purinergic receptors are a family of newly characterized plasma membrane molecules involved in several and as yet only partially known cellular functions such as vascular reactivity, apoptosis and cytokine secretion. Little is known about the effect extracellular microenvironment has on their function.
Puriscal Canton Puriscal Canton, the fourth of the cantons of San José Province, owes his name to the flower of the common bean. Puriscal Canton limits with Mora to the north, Acosta to the east, Turrubares to the west, and with the puntarenense canton of Parrita to the south.
Purisima Creek Open Space Preserve The Purisima Creek Open Space Preserve is located atop historic Kings Mountain in Woodside, California. This over 3,000 acre preserve was established with a $2 million dollar gift from the Save-the-Redwoods League.
Purisima Creek Redwoods Open Space Preserve The Purisima Creek Open Space Preserve is located atop historic Kings Mountain in Woodside, California. This over 3,000 acre preserve was established with a $2 million dollar gift from the Save-the-Redwoods League.
Purist A purist is one who desires that a particular item remain true to its essence and free from adulterating or diluting influences. The term may be used in almost any field, and can be applied either to the self or to others.
Puritan A Puritan of 16th and 17th century England was any person seeking "purity" of worship and doctrine, especially the parties that rejected the Laudian reform of the Church of England. Those who sought further reform of liturgy and theology away from that of the Roman Catholic Church and those who justified separation from the Church of England following the Elizabethan Religious Settlement are commonly called "Puritans" by historians and critics.
Puritan Passions Puritan Passions is a 1923 silent film directed by Frank Tuttle, based on Percy MacKaye's 1908 play, The Scarecrow, which was itself based on Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "Feathertop". The film stars Glenn Hunter, Mary Astor, and stage actor Osgood Perkins.
Purity Purity means that something does not contain foreign material or pollutants; the opposite of purity is impurity. The term may also be used to denote the absence of immoral behaviour or qualities (see morality).
Purity Ball A Purity Ball (also known as a "Father Daughter Purity Ball") is a formal event attended by fathers and their daughters. Fathers in attendance pledge before God to protect their young daughters' purity in mind, body and soul.
Purity ring Purity rings, or chastity rings originated in the United States in the 1990s among Christian affiliated sexual abstinence groups. The rings are sold to adolescents, or to parents so that they may be given to their adolescent children as gifts.
Purity test A "purity test" is intended to measure the user's percentage of "purity", or non-exposure, to a certain field. The name derives from virginity tests which have historically been practiced in many sexually restrictive cultures and are still practiced in some nations today.
Purkinje effect The Purkinje effect (sometimes called the Purkinje shift, or dark adaptation) is the tendency for the peak sensitivity of the human eye to shift toward the blue end of the color spectrum at low illumination levels.
Purkinje fibers Purkinje fibers (or Purkyne tissue) are located in the inner ventricular walls of the heart, just beneath the endocardium. These fibers are specialized myocardial fibers that conduct an electrical stimulus or impulse that enables the heart to contract in a coordinated fashion.
PurkynÄ› (crater) PurkynÄ› is a lunar impact crater that lies just beyond the eastern limb of the Moon, on the far side from the Earth. When conditions of libration and sunlight allow, this crater can be viewed from the Earth, although it is seen from a very low angle and not much detail can be seen.
Purley station rail crash The Purley station rail crash was a train accident on the British railway system that occurred just to the north of Purley railway station in the London Borough of Croydon on Saturday 4 March 1989, leaving six dead and 94 injured.
Purley Stebbins Sergeant Purley Stebbins of the New York Police Department is Inspector Cramer's assistant in the Nero Wolfe series of mysteries by Rex Stout. Stebbins is in many ways the archetypal "good cop": tough, brave, and dedicated, but also gruff, unpolished, and by no means brilliant.
Purley Way Purley Way is a section of the A23 trunk road in the London Borough of Croydon, in the areas of Purley, Waddon and West Croydon, and has given its name to the out-of-town shopping area alongside it with a catchment area covering most of South London. It was designed as a bypass for Croydon and was opened in April 1925.
Purlie Purlie is a Broadway musical with music by Gary Geld, lyrics by Peter Udell and book by Ossie Davis, Peter Udell and Philip Rose. The show opened at the Broadway Theatre on March 15, 1970 and ran for 690 performances.
Purlieu Purlieu is a term used of the outlying parts of a place or district. It was a term of the old English forest law, and meant, as defined by Manwood (Treatise of the Forest Laws), a certain territory of ground adjoining unto the forest,.

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