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Uʹrim

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in Garth’s Dispensary, is Dr. Atterbury.

“Urim was civil, and not void of sense,

Had humour and courteous confidence… .

Constant at feasts, and each decorum knew,

And soon as the dessert appeared, withdrew.”


Canto i.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Upset Price
Urbi et Orbi [To Rome and the rest of the world]
Urd [The Past]
Urda or Urdan Fount (The)
Urda, Verdandi, and Skulda
Urgan
Urganda la Desconecida
Urgel
Uriah
Uriel
Urim
Urim and Thummim
Ursa Major
Ursa Minor
Used Up
Usher means a porter
Usquebaugh
Ut
Ut Queat Laxis, etc
Uta
Uter