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Wright

noun

United States writer of detective novels (1888-1939). Synonyms: S. S. Van Dine, Willard Huntington Wright.

United States writer whose work is concerned with the oppression of African Americans (1908-1960). Synonym: Richard Wright.

United States aviation pioneer who (with his brother Orville Wright) invented the airplane (1867-1912). Synonym: Wilbur Wright.

United States aviation pioneer who (with his brother Wilbur Wright) invented the airplane (1871-1948). Synonym: Orville Wright.

Influential United States architect (1869-1959). Synonym: Frank Lloyd Wright.

United States early feminist (born in Scotland) (1795-1852). Synonyms: Fanny Wright, Frances Wright.

Someone who makes or repairs something (usually used in combination).

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... with Critical Notes by W. Aldis Wright was issued by the Cambridge University Press in one volume, 1903. The text of the earliest printed editions of the several poems was reprinted in 1900 in an edition prepared for the Clarendon Press by the Rev. H. ...

— Milton • John Bailey

... Well-wright,' he said to Elzevir. 'You have brought ugly weather with you, and are drowning wet; will you take a sup of ale before you get ...

— Moonfleet • J. Meade Falkner

... These two metrical fables are from Fables of La Fontaine, translated by Elizur Wright, Jr. (Worthington Company, New York, 1889). The French writer's fables, though usually not original in content, are clever and keen and shrewd, and this translation represents ...

— Types of Children's Literature • Edited by Walter Barnes

... know him; but I can read, can't I? Didn't an advertisement appear in one of the papers at Melbourne, offering a reward for the arrest of one Charley Wright. But don't fear us; go on with your yarn. You've made ...

— The Gold Hunter's Adventures - Or, Life in Australia • William H. Thomes

... Jack. Don't you remember that while we were training at the aviation school at Pau we used often to walk from the town, eight miles distant, until we sighted that famous little old red barn at Pau, where the Wright Brothers conducted some of their experiments in flying heavier-than-air machines. That ...

— Air Service Boys Over The Enemy's Lines - The German Spy's Secret • Charles Amory Beach

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