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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 888 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RANDOM (older forms randon, randrun; from the See also:French, cf. randir, to run quickly, impetuously; generally taken to be of See also:Teutonic origin and connected with Ger. See also:Rand, edge, brim, the See also:idea being possibly of a brimming See also:river)  , an See also:adjective originally meaning impetuous, hasty, hence done without purpose or aim, haphazard . The See also:term " See also:random See also:work " is used, in -See also:architecture, by the rag-See also:stone masons, for stones fitted together at random without any See also:attempt at laying them in courses . " Random coursed work " is a like term applied to work coursed in See also:horizontal beds, but the stones are of varying height, and fitted to one another (see See also:MASONRY) .

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