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noun

John n. A proper name of a man.

John-apple, a sort of apple ripe about St. John's Day. Same as Apple-john.

John Bull, an ideal personification of the typical characteristics of an Englishman, or of the English people.

John Bullism, English character.

John Doe (Law), the name formerly given to the fictitious plaintiff in an action of ejectment.

John Doree, John Dory. (Zool.) An oval, compressed, European food fish (Zeus faber). Its color is yellow and olive, with golden, silvery, and blue reflections. It has a round dark spot on each side. Called also dory, doree, and St. Peter's fish.

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"John" Quotes from Famous Books

... you might have sent a message. It doesn't signify in the least. I never go out till after this, but had you named a time I should have been here to receive you. That will do, John,—shut the door. ...

— Is He Popenjoy? • Anthony Trollope

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... cried another airman, "we had John Bull by his fat throat, and were choking him to ...

— In Secret • Robert W. Chambers

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... manner—cheap and rapid—of transforming copper into platinum. He made the fortune of a publisher by insisting on the publication of a novel which six intelligent men had declared to be unreadable. It was called "The Conscience of John Digby," and when published it sold by thousands and tens of thousands. But he lost the handsome reward he received for this service by publishing at his own expense, on magnificent paper, an edition of Rabelais' works in their original tongue. He frequently spotted ...

— Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches • Maurice Baring

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... totally void of authority. Thus far, concerning Dr. Mead, from the first edition of this work, and the paper entitled "The Director." The following particulars, which I have recently learnt of the MEAD FAMILY, from John Nicholl, Esq., my neighbour at Kensington, and the maternal grandson of the Doctor, may be thought well worth subjoining. MATTHEW MEAD, his father, was a clergyman. He gave up his living at Stepney in 1662; which was afterwards divided into the four ...

— Bibliomania; or Book-Madness - A Bibliographical Romance • Thomas Frognall Dibdin

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... was very fully studied by Melloni and others, but little more was added to the explanation given by Wells until 1885, when John Aitken of Falkirk called attention to the question whether the water of dewdrops on plants or stones came from the air or the earth, and described a number of experiments to show that under the conditions of observation in Scotland, it was the earth from ...

— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 - "Destructors" to "Diameter" • Various

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