,—a gentle declination of the head, hat off, when you meet a person. Some time ago, Mr. Beaufoy, M. P. for Yarmouth, was actually brought to tears, because Mr. Pitt did not return his salute. It was a hard case.
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Entry taken from A Political Dictionary, by Charles Pigott, 1795.
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