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An organization composed originally of Chinese rebels that had been driven into Tonkin by the suppression of the Taiping rebellion, but later increased by bands of pirates and adventurers. It took a prominent part in fighting the French during their hostilities with Anam, 1873-85.

• Duration
  The state or quality of lasting; continuance in time; the portion of time during which anything exists.
• Durometer
  An instrument for measuring the degree of hardness; especially, an instrument for testing the relative hardness of steel rails and the like.
• Frenchman
  A native or one of the people of France.
• Lateran
  The church and palace of St. John Lateran, the church being the cathedral church of Rome, and the highest in rank of all churches in the Catholic world.
• DURIANDURION
  The fruit of the durio. It is oval or globular, and eight or ten inches long. It has a hard prickly rind, containing a soft, cream-colored pulp, of a most delicious flavor and a very offensive odor. The seeds are roasted and eaten like chestnuts.
• Composure
  The act of composing, or that which is composed; a composition.
• Durative
  Continuing; not completed; implying duration.
• Durous
  Hard.
• Hostilities
  of Hostility
• Latered
  Inclined to delay; dilatory.
• TAIPINGTAEPING
  Pertaining to or designating a dynasty with which one Hung-Siu- Chuen, a half-religious, half-political enthusiast, attempted to supplant the Manchu dynasty by the Taiping rebellion, incited by him in 1850 and suppressed by General Gordon about 1864.
• Increasable
  Capable of being increased.
• Laterifolious
  Growing from the stem by the side of a leaf; as, a laterifolious flower.
• Chinese
  Of or pertaining to China; peculiar to China.

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