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Havock

,—desolation; slaughter.

—————“ Kings cry havock;

“Até by their side repeats the sound, and lets loose

“the dogs of war.”

Shakespeare.

“See! with what heat those dogs of hell advance,

“To waste and havock yonder world, which I

“So far and good created.”

Milton’s Paradise Lost, Book II.

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Entry taken from A Political Dictionary, by Charles Pigott, 1795.

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Havock