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wright

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Wright is an occupational surname originating in England. The term 'Wright' comes from the circa 700 AD Old English word 'wryhta' or 'wyrhta', meaning worker or shaper of wood. Later it became any occupational worker (for example, a shipwright is a person ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wright \Wright\, n. [OE. wrighte, writhe, AS. wyrtha, fr. wyrcean to work. [root]145. See Work .] One who is engaged in a mechanical or manufacturing business; an artificer; a workman; a manufacturer; a mechanic; esp., a worker in wood; -- now chiefly used ...

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Population (2000): 93 Housing Units (2000): 44 Land area (2000): 1.548659 sq. miles (4.011009 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 1.548659 sq. miles (4.011009 sq. km) FIPS code: 71824 Located within: Minnesota ...

Usage examples of wright.

Jacob and Stephen Maturin had been talking about the pleasanter sides of their evening with Mr Wright as they sharpened their instruments on variety of hones and oilstones by the Argand light in the orlop.

For a good while the flaw in the one corrupt cryptogram frustrated their efforts, but as the night wore on Wright worked it out.

Chelsea Wright, a college student who, in a bizarre coincidence, anonymously donated eggs at the Westwood fertility clinic under investigation.

You probably know that a young woman who donated eggs to the clinic, Chelsea Wright, was murdered.

Millions of these publications circulated throughout America and Europe, and if a man had even a shred of interest in the soil, his expectations were bound to be aroused, for the corn raised by Farmer Bigley, who had emigrated from Illinois, stood seven feet tall and the melons produced by Farmer Wright were so big they could scarcely be lifted.

Then he from Jop did take the horn and blow: So loud and shrill, he warned good John Wright, Who soon struck out the roller with great slight.

And a sudden gust of fear blew through Michel, as cold as any katabatic downdraught in Wright Valley: he might, out of his own fear, be stopping something with greatness in it.

Boyle, plus Wright, Detective Captain Evans and Detective Kolinsky burst into the home and rushed the kitchen.

Houston friends John Farneti, Riley Barber, Steve Epstein, Andy Muggins, Ron Shock, and Tracy Wright are tremendous storytellers and interviewing them can hardly be called work.

They passed the United States snag boat, Wright, directly after leaving Kansas City and in the evening paddled by Berlin.

Phil Pickard and Garrett Wright put in a lot of time with the kids as well.

Despite this setback the book was a great success, both with the reviewers and with such old friends as Lenore Smith, Charlie Campbell, Ed Chamberlin, John Wright, Nina Rhoades and Mabel Brown Spencer.

A man named Craig Wright spent many frustrating years as the sabermetrician with the Texas Rangers, and then many more consulting other big league teams.

Captain Wright and forty sowars of the 11th Bengal Lancers with Captain Baker of the 2nd Bombay Grenadiers and transport officer at the Malakand, started at dawn on the 27th, by the road from the north camp.

Jimmy Stewart, Josh Logan, John Swope, Martha Edens, Henry Fonda, Jane Fonda, Peter Fonda, William Wyler, Billy Wilder, Nancy Keith, Diana Vreeland, Fredric and Florence March, Truman Capote, Millicent and Paul Osborn, Bill and Greta Wright, Sara Mankiewicz, Tom Mankiewicz, Bill Francisco, Peter Hunt, Charles and Ray Fames, Joseph Cotten, Hank Potter, George Cukor, Jules Stein, King Vidor, Swifty Lazar, George Axelrod, Kathleen Malley, Kenneth Wagg, my grandmother, and most of all my brother, Bill.