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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 444 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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CASEMATE (Ital. casa, a house, and matta, dull or dim)

CASEMATE (Ital. casa, a
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HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)
house, and matta, dull or dim) , an armoured vault or chamber, or in

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field fortification, a

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BOMB

bomb-

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PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)

proof shelter; in

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ARCHITECTURE (Lat. architectura, from the Gr. ap)(LTEKrwv, a master-builder)

architecture, a hollow moulding, chiefly employed in cornices .

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