PARIS
\pˈaɹɪs], \pˈaɹɪs], \p_ˈa_ɹ_ɪ_s]\
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The chief city of France.
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A plant common in Europe (quadrifolia); herb Paris; truelove. It has been used as a narcotic.
By Noah Webster.
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It possesses narcotic properties, and was formerly considered a powerful love philter. It is emetic, and is sometimes used externally as a resolvent and anodyne.
By Robley Dunglison
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Henry James
- writer who was born in the United States but lived England (1843-1916) An American scholar; born at Albany, N. Y., June 3, 1811; died Cambridge, Mass., Dec. 18, 1882. He resided Cambridge. Among the most noted of his works on morals and religion are: "What Is State?\" (1845); "Moralism Christianity"(1852); "Lectures Miscellanies"("The Nature Evil"(1855); "Christianity Logic Creation"(1857); "Substance Shadow"(1863); Secret Swedenborg"(1869). An American novelist and miscellaneous prose-writer, son of Henry(1st); born in New York, April 15, 1843. His works include: "Transatlantic Sketches"(1875); "A Passionate Pilgrim Other Tales"("Roderick Hudson"(1876); "The American"(1877); "Watch Ward"(1878); "French Poets Novelists"("Daisy Miller: a Study"(Europeans: Sketch"("An International Episode"(1879); Madonna the Future "Hawthorne"(Bundle Letters"(1880); "Confidence"(Diary Man Fifty"("Washington Square"(Portrait Lady"(1882); Comedy"(1883); Siege London; Pension Beaurepas; Point View"("Portraits Places"("Tales Three Cities"(1884); Little Tour France"(1885); Art Fiction"(1885), with Walter Besant; "Stories Revived"(2 vols., Author Beltraffio"(Bostonians"(1886); Princess Casamassima"("Partial Portraits"(1888); Aspern Papers Stories"(Reverberator"(London Life"(1889); Tragic Muse"(1890); "Port Tarascon"(1891), translation; Lesson Master"(1892), volume stories; Real Thing 1893); "Picture Text"(Private 1893), "Essays Elsewhere"(Wheel Time"(1894); "Theatricals