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abercrombie
/ˈæb.ɚˌkɹɑm.bi/
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What does abercrombie mean?
proper noun
- A surname.
- A hamlet near St Monance, Fife council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO5102).
- A community in Pictou County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
More meanings (6)
proper noun
- An unincorporated community in Bibb County, Alabama, United States.
- A minor city in Richland County, North Dakota, United States.
- A township in Richland County, North Dakota.
- A locality in the Bathurst council area, central eastern New South Wales, Australia.
- A river and national park in New South Wales, Australia.
- A rural locality in Tasmania, Australia.
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/ˈæb.ɚˌkɹɑm.bi/
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Taine, Guerin, Abercrombie, etc., cite many examples, and Winslow tells of a woman who, after considerable bleeding, forgot all her French.
Wainewright, with his reason for poisoning Helen Abercrombie--"Upon my soul I don't know, unless it was that her legs were too thick"--is quite on a par with Anna Zwanziger.
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Mr. Clement Shorter, who gives us the skeleton of a bibliography that is all too brief, draws special attention to 'New Numbers', a quarterly publication issued in Gloucestershire, to which Brooke contributed in February, April, August, and December of last year, his fellow poets being Lascelles Abercrombie, John Drinkwater, and Wilfrid Wilson Gibson.
The largest healthy brains on record, that is, of men of prominence, are those of Cuvier, weighing 64 1/3 ounces; of Daniel Webster, weighing 63 3/4 ounces (the circumference of whose head was 23 3/4 inches); of Abercrombie, weighing 63 ounces, and of Spurzheim, weighing 55 1/16 ounces.