Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the United States, a transferable government certificate entitling its holder to the possession of a specified quantity of public land.
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All who can establish said claim are entitled to a bounty land-warrant in the kingdom of
The Communistic Societies of the United States From Personal Visit and Observation Charles Nordhoff 1865
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When the assertors of the divine authority of the Bible speak of it as inspired, they mean that it is so as no other book is; and when they speak of it as coming from God, they mean that it does not come simply as a gift of God's bounty, as the soldier's land-warrant comes from the government; but that it comes like the laws of Congress, carrying authority with it to command our obedience.
Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity Robert Patterson 1857
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