MDDM Ch.78 "On Entering Mason's Rooms...

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Tue Sep 24 05:52:26 CDT 2002


[760.20]

...Franklin is greeted by an Odor he knows and would rather 
not have found."

Main Entry: 1in·con·ti·nent 
 Pronunciation: (")in-'kän-t&n-&nt
 Function: adjective
 Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French or Latin;
 Middle French, from Latin incontinent-, incontinens,
 from in- + continent-, continens continent
 Date: 14th century
  : not continent: as a (1) : lacking self-restraint (2) : not
  being under control b : unable to retain a bodily discharge
  voluntarily 

cf

"'Tis a Construction,"..."a great single Engine, the size of a
Continent." [772.17]

Follow your nose.

regards



 




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