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termini


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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Terminus  \Ter"mi*nus\,  n.;  pl  {Termini}.  [L.  See  {Term}.] 
  1.  Literally,  a  boundary;  a  border;  a  limit. 
 
  2.  (Myth.)  The  Roman  divinity  who  presided  over  boundaries, 
  whose  statue  was  properly  a  short  pillar  terminating  in 
  the  bust  of  a  man,  woman,  satyr,  or  the  like  but  often 
  merely  a  post  or  stone  stuck  in  the  ground  on  a  boundary 
  line 
 
  3.  Hence  any  post  or  stone  marking  a  boundary;  a  term.  See 
  {Term},  8. 
 
  4.  Either  end  of  a  railroad  line  also  the  station  house,  or 
  the  town  or  city,  at  that  place 




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