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(Encyclopedia)De Witt, uninc. town (2020 pop. 26,074), Onondaga co., central N.Y., a residential suburb of Syracuse.

(Encyclopedia)Hoseyn. For names spelled thus, use Husayn, Husein, or Hussein.

(Encyclopedia)Iapetus, in Greek mythology, a Titan. By the nymph Clymene he fathered Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Menoetius.

(Encyclopedia)Ed, in the Bible, name of an altar raised on the left bank of the Jordan.

(Encyclopedia)Lucius, in the New Testament. 1 Christian teacher at Antioch, a Cyrenian. 2 Christian at Rome.

(Encyclopedia)Rotterdam, town (1990 pop. 21,228), Schenectady co., E N.Y.; settled c.1670, inc. 1821. It is residential.

(Encyclopedia)Tishbite, in the Bible, epithet of Elijah, referring to Tishbe, his place of origin or his family.

(Encyclopedia)adder's-tongue, name for a fern genus (Ophioglossum). Adder's-tongues are classified in the division Pteridophyta.

(Encyclopedia)Shen, in the Bible, place, perhaps close to Bethel, near which Samuel set up the stone Ebenezer.

(Encyclopedia)Evergreen Park, village (2020 pop. 19,943), Cook co., NE Ill., a residential suburb of Chicago; inc. 1893.