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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 669 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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TESTER (Fr, teetiere, head-covering, from teete)

TESTER (Fr, teetiere, See also:
HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART
head-covering, from teete) , anything placed horizontally over the head, as the See also:

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BOARD (O. Eng. bord)

board of a See also:

PULPIT (from Lat. pulpitum, a staging, platform: equivalents are Fr. chaire d'eglise, Ital. pulpito, Ger. Kanzel)

pulpit, the See also:

FLAT (a modification of O. Eng. flet, an obsolete word of Teutonic origin, meaning the ground beneath the feet)

flat boards over an old-fashioned See also:

bed, &c.

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