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Boyoma FallsBoyoma Falls, formerly known as Stanley Falls consists of seven cataracts extending over 100 km on the Lualaba River[?] in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.It is the world's highest-volume waterfall, seeing 17,000,000 liters of water rush by per second, with a total drop of 60 meters. (inclosure) 232.
bridle, &c. (restrain) 751.
agriculture, cultivation, husbandry, farming; georgics, geoponics; tillage,
floriculture; landscape gardening; viticulture.
agriculturist; yeoman, farmer, cultivator, tiller of the soil.html">soil, woodcutter,
field, meadow, garden.html">garden.html">garden.html">garden; botanic garden, winter garden, ornamental
green house, hot house; conservatory, bed, border, seed plot; grassplot,
plantation, avenue, arboretum, pinery, pinetum, orchard; vineyard, vinery;
V. cultivate; till the soil; farm, garden; sow, plant; reap, mow, cut;
rake, weed, lop and top; backset [U.S.].
arable, predial, rural, rustic, country; horticultural.
#372. Mankind. -- N. man.html">man.html">man.html">man, mankind; human.html">human.html">human.html">human.html">human race, human species, human
[Science of man] anthropology, anthropogeny, anthropography,
human being; person, personage; individual.html">individual, creature, fellow creature,
earthling; party, head, hand; dramatis personae; quidam.
large; general public; nation, nationality; state, realm; commonweal,
population &c. (inhabitant) 188.
Adj. human, mortal, personal, individual, national, civic, public,
Phr. "am I not a man and a brother?" [Wedgwood].
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#373 Man. -- N. man, male, he, him; manhood &c. (adolescence.html">adolescence) 131;
elf, chap, gaffer, good man; husband &c. (married man) 903; Mr., mister;
[Male animal] cock, drake, gander, dog, boar, stag, hart, buck, horse,
bull, bullock; capon, ox, gelding, steer, stot.
Phr. hominem pagina nostra sapit [Mar.]; homo homini aut deus aut
feminality, muliebrity; womanhood &c. (adolescence) 131.
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