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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Negro \Ne"gro\, n.; pl {Negroes}. [Sp. or Pg negro, fr negro
black, L. niger; perh. akin to E. night.]
A black man; especially, one of a race of black or very dark
persons who inhabit the greater part of tropical Africa, and
are distinguished by crisped or curly hair, flat noses, and
thick protruding lips; also any black person of unmixed
African blood, wherever found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Negro \Ne"gro\, a.
Of or pertaining to negroes; black.
{Negro bug} (Zo["o]l.), a minute black bug common on the
raspberry and blackberry. It produced a very disagreeable
flavor.
{negro corn}, the Indian millet or durra; -- so called in the
West Indies. see {Durra}. --McElrath.
{Negro fly} (Zo["o]l.), a black dipterous fly ({Psila
ros[ae]}) which in the larval state, is injurious to
carrots; -- called also {carrot fly}.
{Negro head} (Com.), Cavendish tobacco. [Cant] --McElrath.
{Negro monkey} (Zo["o]l.), the moor monkey.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
negro
adj : relating to or characteristic of or being a member of the
traditional racial division of mankind having brown to
black pigmentation and tightly curled hair
n : a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose
ancestors came from Africa) [syn: {Black}, {black person},
{blackamoor}, {Negro}, {Negroid}]
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
NEGRO, n. The _piece de resistance_ in the American political
problem. Representing him by the letter n, the Republicans begin to
build their equation thus: "Let n = the white man." This however,
appears to give an unsatisfactory solution.
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