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Bede
Saint, known as the Venerable Bede. ?673--735 ad, English monk, scholar, historian, and theologian, noted for his Latin Ecclesiastical History of the English People (731). Feast day: May 27 or 25

bede [bēd]
(mining engineering)
A miner's pick.


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And in these two monasteries Bede spent all the rest of his life.
In his tall stalwartness Adam Bede was a Saxon, and justified his name; but the jet-black hair, made the more noticeable by its contrast with the light paper cap, and the keen glance of the dark eyes that shone from under strongly marked, prominent and mobile eyebrows, indicated a mixture of Celtic blood.
Ballads, 'Beowulf,' Caedmon, Bede (Latin prose), Cynewulf.
 
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