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worcester
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Population (2000): 750963 Housing Units (2000): 298159 Land area (2000): 1513.063932 sq. miles (3918.817426 sq. km) Water area (2000): 65.954850 sq. miles (170.822271 sq. km) Total area (2000): 1579.018782 sq. miles (4089.639697 sq. km) Located within: ...
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Worcester is a city and county town of Worcestershire in England. Worcester may also refer to:
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wireceastre (1086), Old English Wigranceastre (717), Weogorna civitas (691), from Weogora, a tribal name. Worcestershire sauce (Lea & Perrin's) is attested from 1843.
Usage examples of worcester.
Shortly after I was admitted to the Bar, good fortune brought me at once into the largest practice in the great County of Worcester, although that Bar had always been, before and since, one of the ablest in the country.
First Church during the time Adams was away at Worcester, also became the subject of some of his most vivid sketches.
They had just arrived, the messenger informed us, on a visit to the Prior of Malvern, and came from Worcester in great privacy, attended only by Bishop Alcock, the tutor of the young princes.
There were old Persian and Bokharan rugs and Worcester teaservices of glowing colour, and little treasures of antique silver that each enshrined a history or a memory in addition to its own intrinsic value.
Folsom, elected Captain of the Ancient and Respectable Riflemen - an organization centring in Worcester, Massachusetts, and precisely what Folsom had said it was - was treasurer of the Worcester Paper Box Company, which had been founded by his father - R.
Worcester the very day after the unfortunate re-encounter between Jones and Northerton which we have before recorded.
Worcester, and I only have enough money to pay my railroad fare here, and of course I cannot ask Miss Peevy for any money as I do not wish her to know I am going away.
It embraced portions of the counties of Radnor, Montgomery, Salop, Worcester, and Gloucester, and touched upon that of Brecon.
On September 2nd another commando of Free State Boers under Fourie emerged from the mountain country on the Basuto border, and fell upon Ladybrand, which was held by a feeble garrison consisting of one company of the Worcester regiment and forty-three men of the Wiltshire Yeomanry.
He made the sixty-mile journey from Braintree to Worcester by horseback in a single day and, though untried and untrained as a teacher, immediately assumed his new role in a one-room schoolhouse at the center of town.
However, I will keep the lefthand track, as that seems to lead directly to those hills, which we were informed lie not far from Worcester.
Master Shallow: Here lyeth the Lady Joyce Lucy wife of Sir Thomas Lucy of Charlecot in ye county of Warwick, Knight, Daughter and heir of Thomas Acton of Sutton in ye county of Worcester Esquire who departed out of this wretched world to her heavenly kingdom ye 10 day of February in ye yeare of our Lord God 1595 and of her age 60 and three.
Rainbow had two shops, one in Birmingham, one in Worcester, where carefully selected manageresses looked after his interests.
A city map in her hand, she walked through busy streets, past Worcester College, the Oxford University Press, and the rear of the Radcliffe Infirmary.
Her grandfather had invented a process whereby Carborundum particles could be attached to fabric, producing an excellent abrasive for use in manufacturing, but since he was unusually cautious in financial affairs, he missed his opportunity to convert his small operation into a massive corporation the way some of the other Worcester Swedes did, but his four patents were so original and so carefully protected that he and his descendants did collect gratifying royalties from the big combines.