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Beautiful, of a pleasing appearance, with a pure and fresh quality.

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*{{quote-book, year=1917, year_published=2008

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*{{quote-book, year=2010, author=(Stephan Grundy)

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Unblemished (figuratively or literally); clean and pure; innocent.

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*Book of Common Prayer

*:a fair white linen cloth

Light in color, pale, particularly as regards skin tone but also referring to blond hair.

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*1677 , (Matthew Hale), The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature , page 200

*:the northern people large and fair -complexioned

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*:This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. In complexion fair , and with blue or gray eyes, he was tall as any Viking, as broad in the shoulder.

Just, equitable.

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*:“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”

Adequate, reasonable, or decent.

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Favorable to a ship's course.

Not overcast; cloudless; clear; pleasant; propitious; said of the sky, weather, or wind, etc.

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*(Matthew Prior) (1664-1721)

*:You wish fair winds may waft him over.

Free from obstacles or hindrances; unobstructed; unencumbered; open; direct; said of a road, passage, etc.

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*Sir (Walter Raleigh) (ca.1554-1618)

*:The caliphs obtained a mighty empire, which was in a fair way to have enlarged.

(lb) Without sudden change of direction or curvature; smooth; flowing; said of the figure of a vessel, and of surfaces, water lines, and other lines.

(lb) Between the baselines.

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(lb) Of people.

#Acting in the interest of good; ethical.

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#*1891 , (Oscar Wilde), (The Picture of Dorian Gray) , Ch.6

#*:When we are happy, we are always good', but when we are ' good , we are not always happy.

#Competent or talented.

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#*:Those are generally good' at flattering who are ' good for nothing else.

#*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), title= “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=3/19/2

, passage=Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house?; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something?; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.}}

#Able to be depended on for the discharge of obligations incurred; of unimpaired credit.

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#Useful for a particular purpose; functional.

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, title= Wild Plants to the Rescue , volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Plant breeding is always a numbers game.

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#*:There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good , serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.

#(lb) Real; actual; serious.

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#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

#*:Love no man in good earnest.

(lb) Of properties and qualities.

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##Edible; not stale or rotten.

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##Having a particularly pleasant taste.

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#Pleasant; enjoyable.

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#Favourable.

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#Beneficial; worthwhile.

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, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.

#Adequate; sufficient; not fallacious.

#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

#*:My reasons are both good and weighty.

(lb) With "and", extremely.

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(lb) Of quantities.

#Reasonable in amount.

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#Large in amount or size.

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#*:The big houses, and there are a good many of them, lie for the most part in what may be called by courtesy the valleys. You catch a glimpse of them sometimes at a little distance from the [railway] line, which seems to have shown some ingenuity in avoiding them,.

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#*:Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. No omnibus, cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn.