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Kent

noun

A county in southeastern England on the English Channel; formerly an Anglo-Saxon kingdom, it was the first to be colonized by the Romans.

United States painter noted for his woodcuts (1882-1971). Synonym: Rockwell Kent.

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... a land-tenure existing chiefly in Kent; from 16th century often used to denote custom of dividing a deceased man's property equally ...

— Epicoene - Or, The Silent Woman • Ben Jonson

... Kent (—.). List of names of Iowa Indians, with English translation. 8 pp. folio. Accompanied by a similar list revised by Rev. William Hamilton. 7 ...

— Catalogue Of Linguistic Manuscripts In The Library Of The Bureau Of Ethnology. (1881 N 01 / 1879-1880 (Pages 553-578)) • James Constantine Pilling

... discharged its duties, and learned more of legal procedure and of human nature in six hours than I had ever before learned in six months. Ever afterward I advised my students to get themselves drawn upon a petit jury. I had read some Blackstone and some Kent and had heard a few law lectures, but my knowledge was purely theoretical: in constitutional law it was derived from reading scattered essays in the "Federalist,'' with extracts here and there from Story. Of ...

— Volume I • Andrew Dickson White

... which arose on the rights of neutral nations, and especially on the policy contained in Jay's Treaty. In vindication of this treaty he published a series of papers, under the signature of Curtius, twelve in all, but the sixth and seventh were contributed by James Kent, afterward Chancellor Kent. The papers came out at the same time with the series signed Camillus, written by Hamilton and King.[12] When the first number of Curtius appeared, Jefferson wrote of it to Madison: "I send you by post one of the pieces, Curtius, lest it should not ...

— Noah Webster - American Men of Letters • Horace E. Scudder

... walls, the red and peaked roof of the old house of Penshurst, stand in the pleasant English valley of the Medway, in soft and showery Kent. Kent is all garden, and there, in November, 1554, Philip Sidney was born. His father, Sir Henry Sidney, was a wise and honest man. Bred at court, his sturdy honor was never corrupted. King Edward died in his arms, and Queen Mary confirmed all ...

— Literary and Social Essays • George William Curtis

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