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preserve areas where game is reared for private hunting or fishing preserve [prə′zərv] (ecology) An area that is maintained for game or fish, especially for sport, and may have limited access requiring a permit for entry. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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A strong sense of the value and blessings of union induced the people, at a very early period, to institute a federal government to preserve and perpetuate it. Massacres are to be sternly forbidden as heretofore; but any citizen or subject of either country disobeying the injunction is to detach the scalps of all persons massacred and deposit them with a local officer designated to receive and preserve them and sworn to keep and render a true account thereof. So too the poet, in representing men who are irascible or indolent, or have other defects of character, should preserve the type and yet ennoble it. |
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