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   Emil Klaus Julius Fuchs
         n 1: British physicist who was born in Germany and fled Nazi
               persecution; in the 1940s he passed secret information to
               the USSR about the development of the atom bomb in the
               United States (1911-1988) [syn: {Fuchs}, {Klaus Fuchs},
               {Emil Klaus Julius Fuchs}]

English Dictionary: enlighten by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Emile Coue
n
  1. French psychotherapist who claimed that if one imagined one was getting better, one would get better (1857-1926)
    Synonym(s): Coue, Emile Coue
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Emile Gaboriau
n
  1. French writer considered by some to be a founder of the detective novel (1832-1873)
    Synonym(s): Gaboriau, Emile Gaboriau
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Emile Zola
n
  1. French novelist and critic; defender of Dreyfus (1840-1902)
    Synonym(s): Zola, Emile Zola
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Emilia coccinea
n
  1. tropical African annual having scarlet tassel-shaped flower heads; sometimes placed in genus Cacalia
    Synonym(s): tassel flower, Emilia coccinea, Emilia javanica, Emilia flammea, Cacalia javanica, Cacalia lutea
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Emilia javanica
n
  1. tropical African annual having scarlet tassel-shaped flower heads; sometimes placed in genus Cacalia
    Synonym(s): tassel flower, Emilia coccinea, Emilia javanica, Emilia flammea, Cacalia javanica, Cacalia lutea
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Emilia sagitta
n
  1. tropical Asiatic annual cultivated for its small tassel- shaped heads of scarlet flowers
    Synonym(s): tassel flower, Emilia sagitta
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Emilie Charlotte le Breton
n
  1. British actress and mistress of the prince who later became Edward VII (1853-1929)
    Synonym(s): Langtry, Lillie Langtry, Jersey Lillie, Emilie Charlotte le Breton
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Emily Jane Bronte
n
  1. English novelist; one of three Bronte sisters (1818-1848)
    Synonym(s): Bronte, Emily Bronte, Emily Jane Bronte, Currer Bell
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
emulous
adj
  1. characterized by or arising from emulation or imitation
  2. eager to surpass others
    Synonym(s): emulous, rivalrous
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
emulously
adv
  1. in a competitively imitative manner; "she emulously tried to outdo her older sister"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
emulsifier
n
  1. a surface-active agent that promotes the formation of an emulsion
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
emulsify
v
  1. cause to become an emulsion; make into an emulsion [ant: demulsify]
  2. form into or become an emulsion; "The solution emulsified"
    Antonym(s): demulsify
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
emulsion
n
  1. (chemistry) a colloid in which both phases are liquids; "an oil-in-water emulsion"
  2. a light-sensitive coating on paper or film; consists of fine grains of silver bromide suspended in a gelatin
    Synonym(s): emulsion, photographic emulsion
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
enallage
n
  1. a substitution of part of speech or gender or number or tense etc. (e.g., editorial `we' for `I')
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
enlace
v
  1. spin,wind, or twist together; "intertwine the ribbons"; "Twine the threads into a rope"; "intertwined hearts"
    Synonym(s): intertwine, twine, entwine, enlace, interlace, lace
    Antonym(s): untwine
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
enlighten
v
  1. make understand; "Can you enlighten me--I don't understand this proposal"
    Synonym(s): enlighten, edify
  2. give spiritual insight to; in religion
    Synonym(s): enlighten, irradiate
  3. make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear; "Could you clarify these remarks?"; "Clear up the question of who is at fault"
    Synonym(s): clear, clear up, shed light on, crystallize, crystallise, crystalize, crystalise, straighten out, sort out, enlighten, illuminate, elucidate
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
enlightened
adj
  1. having knowledge and spiritual insight [ant: unenlightened]
  2. characterized by full comprehension of the problem involved; "an educated guess"; "an enlightened electorate"
    Synonym(s): educated, enlightened
n
  1. people who have been introduced to the mysteries of some field or activity; "it is very familiar to the initiate"
    Synonym(s): initiate, enlightened
    Antonym(s): uninitiate
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
enlightening
adj
  1. tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance; "an enlightening glimpse of government in action"; "an illuminating lecture"
    Synonym(s): enlightening, informative, illuminating
    Antonym(s): unenlightening, unilluminating
  2. enlightening or uplifting so as to encourage intellectual or moral improvement; "the paintings in the church served an edifying purpose even for those who could not read"
    Synonym(s): edifying, enlightening
    Antonym(s): unedifying, unenlightening
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
enlightenment
n
  1. education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge
    Antonym(s): unenlightenment
  2. (Hinduism and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation; characterized by the extinction of desire and suffering and individual consciousness
    Synonym(s): nirvana, enlightenment
  3. a movement in Europe from about 1650 until 1800 that advocated the use of reason and individualism instead of tradition and established doctrine; "the Enlightenment brought about many humanitarian reforms"
    Synonym(s): Enlightenment, Age of Reason
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
enlist
v
  1. join the military
  2. hire for work or assistance; "engage aid, help, services, or support"
    Synonym(s): engage, enlist
  3. engage somebody to enter the army
    Synonym(s): enlist, draft, muster in
    Antonym(s): discharge, muster out
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
enlisted man
n
  1. a male enlisted person in the armed forces
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
enlisted officer
n
  1. a military officer appointed from enlisted personnel [syn: noncommissioned officer, noncom, enlisted officer]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
enlisted person
n
  1. a serviceman who ranks below a commissioned officer
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
enlisted woman
n
  1. a female enlisted person in the armed forces
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
enlistee
n
  1. any new member or supporter (as in the armed forces) [syn: recruit, enlistee]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
enlisting
n
  1. the act of getting recruits; enlisting people for the army (or for a job or a cause etc.)
    Synonym(s): recruitment, enlisting
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
enlistment
n
  1. a period of time spent in military service [syn: enlistment, hitch, term of enlistment, tour of duty, duty tour, tour]
  2. the act of enlisting (as in a military service)
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
enolic
adj
  1. of or relating to or consisting of enol
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
enologist
n
  1. a specialist in wine making [syn: enologist, oenologist, fermentologist]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
enology
n
  1. the art of wine making
    Synonym(s): enology, oenology
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Green \Green\, a. [Compar. {Greener}; superl. {Greenest.}] [OE.
      grene, AS. gr?ne; akin to D. groen, OS. gr?ni, OHG. gruoni,
      G. gr?n, Dan. & Sw. gr?n, Icel. gr?nn; fr. the root of E.
      grow. See {Grow.}]
      1. Having the color of grass when fresh and growing;
            resembling that color of the solar spectrum which is
            between the yellow and the blue; verdant; emerald.
  
      2. Having a sickly color; wan.
  
                     To look so green and pale.                  --Shak.
  
      3. Full of life aud vigor; fresh and vigorous; new; recent;
            as, a green manhood; a green wound.
  
                     As valid against such an old and beneficent
                     government as against . . . the greenest usurpation.
                                                                              --Burke.
  
      4. Not ripe; immature; not fully grown or ripened; as, green
            fruit, corn, vegetables, etc.
  
      5. Not roasted; half raw. [R.]
  
                     We say the meat is green when half roasted. --L.
                                                                              Watts.
  
      6. Immature in age or experience; young; raw; not trained;
            awkward; as, green in years or judgment.
  
                     I might be angry with the officious zeal which
                     supposes that its green conceptions can instruct my
                     gray hairs.                                       --Sir W.
                                                                              Scott.
  
      7. Not seasoned; not dry; containing its natural juices; as,
            green wood, timber, etc. --Shak.
  
      {Green brier} (Bot.), a thorny climbing shrub ({Emilaz
            rotundifolia}) having a yellowish green stem and thick
            leaves, with small clusters of flowers, common in the
            United States; -- called also {cat brier}.
  
      {Green con} (Zo[94]l.), the pollock.
  
      {Green crab} (Zo[94]l.), an edible, shore crab ({Carcinus
            menas}) of Europe and America; -- in New England locally
            named {joe-rocker}.
  
      {Green crop}, a crop used for food while in a growing or
            unripe state, as distingushed from a grain crop, root
            crop, etc.
  
      {Green diallage}. (Min.)
            (a) Diallage, a variety of pyroxene.
            (b) Smaragdite.
  
      {Green dragon} (Bot.), a North American herbaceous plant
            ({Aris[91]ma Dracontium}), resembling the Indian turnip;
            -- called also {dragon root}.
  
      {Green earth} (Min.), a variety of glauconite, found in
            cavities in amygdaloid and other eruptive rock, and used
            as a pigment by artists; -- called also {mountain green}.
           
  
      {Green ebony}.
            (a) A south American tree ({Jacaranda ovalifolia}), having
                  a greenish wood, used for rulers, turned and inlaid
                  work, and in dyeing.
            (b) The West Indian green ebony. See {Ebony}.
  
      {Green fire} (Pyrotech.), a composition which burns with a
            green flame. It consists of sulphur and potassium
            chlorate, with some salt of barium (usually the nitrate),
            to which the color of the flame is due.
  
      {Green fly} (Zo[94]l.), any green species of plant lice or
            aphids, esp. those that infest greenhouse plants.
  
      {Green gage}, (Bot.) See {Greengage}, in the Vocabulary.
  
      {Green gland} (Zo[94]l.), one of a pair of large green glands
            in Crustacea, supposed to serve as kidneys. They have
            their outlets at the bases of the larger antenn[91].
  
      {Green hand}, a novice. [Colloq.]
  
      {Green heart} (Bot.), the wood of a lauraceous tree found in
            the West Indies and in South America, used for
            shipbuilding or turnery. The green heart of Jamaica and
            Guiana is the {Nectandra Rodi[d2]i}, that of Martinique is
            the {Colubrina ferruginosa}.
  
      {Green iron ore} (Min.) dufrenite.
  
      {Green laver} (Bot.), an edible seaweed ({Ulva latissima});
            -- called also {green sloke}.
  
      {Green lead ore} (Min.), pyromorphite.
  
      {Green linnet} (Zo[94]l.), the greenfinch.
  
      {Green looper} (Zo[94]l.), the cankerworm.
  
      {Green marble} (Min.), serpentine.
  
      {Green mineral}, a carbonate of copper, used as a pigment.
            See {Greengill}.
  
      {Green monkey} (Zo[94]l.) a West African long-tailed monkey
            ({Cercopithecus callitrichus}), very commonly tamed, and
            trained to perform tricks. It was introduced into the West
            Indies early in the last century, and has become very
            abundant there.
  
      {Green salt of Magnus} (Old Chem.), a dark green crystalline
            salt, consisting of ammonia united with certain chlorides
            of platinum.
  
      {Green sand} (Founding) molding sand used for a mold while
            slightly damp, and not dried before the cast is made.
  
      {Green sea} (Naut.), a wave that breaks in a solid mass on a
            vessel's deck.
  
      {Green sickness} (Med.), chlorosis.
  
      {Green snake} (Zo[94]l.), one of two harmless American snakes
            ({Cyclophis vernalis}, and {C. [91]stivus}). They are
            bright green in color.
  
      {Green turtle} (Zo[94]l.), an edible marine turtle. See
            {Turtle}.
  
      {Green vitriol}.
            (a) (Chem.) Sulphate of iron; a light green crystalline
                  substance, very extensively used in the preparation of
                  inks, dyes, mordants, etc.
            (b) (Min.) Same as {copperas}, {melanterite} and {sulphate
                  of iron}.
  
      {Green ware}, articles of pottery molded and shaped, but not
            yet baked.
  
      {Green woodpecker} (Zo[94]l.), a common European woodpecker
            ({Picus viridis}); -- called also {yaffle}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Emollescence \Em`ol*les"cence\, n. [L. e out + mollescere,
      incho. fr. mollere to be soft, mollis soft.]
      That degree of softness in a body beginning to melt which
      alters its shape; the first or lowest degree of fusibility.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Emulge \E*mulge"\, v. t. [L. emulgere, emulsum; e out + mulgere
      to milk; akin to E. milk. See {Milk}.]
      To milk out; to drain. [Obs.] --Bailey.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Emulgent \E*mul"gent\, a. [L. emulgens, p. pr. of emulgere to
      milk out: cf. F. [82]mulgent. So called because regarded by
      the ancients as straining out the serum, as if by milking,
      and so producing the urine.] (Anat.)
      Pertaining to the kidneys; renal; as, emulgent arteries and
      veins. -- n. An emulgent vessel, as a renal artery or vein.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Emulgent \E*mul"gent\, n. (Med.)
      A medicine that excites the flow of bile. [Obs.] --Hoblyn.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Emulous \Em"u*lous\, a. [L. aemulus. See {Emulate}.]
      1. Ambitiously desirous to equal or even to excel another;
            eager to emulate or vie with another; desirous of like
            excellence with another; -- with of; as, emulous of
            another's example or virtues.
  
      2. Vying with; rivaling; hence, contentious, envious.
            [bd]Emulous Carthage.[b8] --B. Jonson.
  
                     Emulous missions 'mongst the gods.      --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Emulously \Em"u*lous*ly\, adv.
      In an emulous manner.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Emulousness \Em"u*lous*ness\, n.
      The quality of being emulous.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Emulsic \E*mul"sic\, a.
      Pertaining to, or produced from, emulsin; as, emulsic acid.
      --Hoblyn.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Emulsify \E*mul"si*fy\, v. t. [Emulsion + -fy.]
      To convert into an emulsion; to form an emulsion; to reduce
      from an oily substance to a milky fluid in which the fat
      globules are in a very finely divided state, giving it the
      semblance of solution; as, the pancreatic juice emulsifies
      the oily part of food.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Emulsin \E*mul"sin\, n. [See {Emulsion}, {Emulge}.] (Chem.)
      (a) The white milky pulp or extract of bitter almonds. [R.]
      (b) An unorganized ferment (contained in this extract and in
            other vegetable juices), which effects the decomposition
            of certain glucosides.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Emulsion \E*mul"sion\, n. [From L. emulgere, emulsum: cf. F.
      [82]mulsion. See {Emulge}.]
      Any liquid preparation of a color and consistency resembling
      milk; as:
      (a) In pharmacy, an extract of seeds, or a mixture of oil and
            water united by a mucilaginous substance.
      (b) In photography, a liquid preparation of collodion holding
            salt of silver, used in the photographic process.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Emulsive \E*mul"sive\, a. [Cf. F. [82]mulsif.]
      1. Softening; milklike.
  
      2. Yielding oil by expression; as, emulsive seeds.
  
      3. Producing or yielding a milklike substance; as, emulsive
            acids.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Enaliosaur \En*al"i*o*saur`\, n. (Paleon.)
      One of the Enaliosauria.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Enaliosaurian \En*al`i*o*sau"ri*an\, a. (Paleon.)
      Pertaining to the Enaliosauria. -- n. One of the
      Enaliosauria.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Enlace \En*lace"\, v. t.
      To bind or encircle with lace, or as with lace; to lace; to
      encircle; to enfold; hence, to entangle.
  
               Ropes of pearl her neck and breast enlace. --P.
                                                                              Fletcher.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Enlacement \En*lace"ment\, n.
      The act of enlacing, or state of being enlaced; a surrounding
      as with a lace.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Enlight \En*light"\, v. t. [Pref. en- + light. Cf. {Enlighten}.]
      To illumine; to enlighten. [R.]
  
               Which from the first has shone on ages past, Enlights
               the present, and shall warm the last.      --Pope.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Enlighten \En*light"en\, v. t. [Pref. en- + lighten: cf. AS.
      inl[c6]htan. Cf. {Enlight}.]
      1. To supply with light; to illuminate; as, the sun
            enlightens the earth.
  
                     His lightnings enlightened the world. --Ps. xcvii.
                                                                              4.
  
      2. To make clear to the intellect or conscience; to shed the
            light of truth and knowledge upon; to furnish with
            increase of knowledge; to instruct; as, to enlighten the
            mind or understanding.
  
                     The conscience enlightened by the Word and Spirit of
                     God.                                                   --Trench.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Enlightener \En*light"en*er\, n.
      One who enlightens or illuminates; one who, or that which,
      communicates light to the eye, or clear views to the mind.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Enlightenment \En*light"en*ment\, n.
      = {Aufkl[8e]rung}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Enlightenment \En*light"en*ment\, n.
      Act of enlightening, or the state of being enlightened or
      instructed.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Enlist \En*list"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Enlisted}; p. pr. & vb.
      n. {Enlisting}.]
      1. To enter on a list; to enroll; to register.
  
      2. To engage for military or naval service, the name being
            entered on a list or register; as, to enlist men.
  
      3. To secure the support and aid of; to employ in advancing
            interest; as, to enlist persons in the cause of truth, or
            in a charitable enterprise.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Enlist \En*list"\, v. i.
      1. To enroll and bind one's self for military or naval
            service; as, he enlisted in the regular army; the men
            enlisted for the war.
  
      2. To enter heartily into a cause, as if enrolled.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Enlist \En*list"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Enlisted}; p. pr. & vb.
      n. {Enlisting}.]
      1. To enter on a list; to enroll; to register.
  
      2. To engage for military or naval service, the name being
            entered on a list or register; as, to enlist men.
  
      3. To secure the support and aid of; to employ in advancing
            interest; as, to enlist persons in the cause of truth, or
            in a charitable enterprise.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Enlist \En*list"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Enlisted}; p. pr. & vb.
      n. {Enlisting}.]
      1. To enter on a list; to enroll; to register.
  
      2. To engage for military or naval service, the name being
            entered on a list or register; as, to enlist men.
  
      3. To secure the support and aid of; to employ in advancing
            interest; as, to enlist persons in the cause of truth, or
            in a charitable enterprise.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Enlistment \En*list"ment\, n.
      1. The act or enlisting, or the state of being enlisted;
            voluntary enrollment to serve as a soldier or a sailor.
  
      2. The writing by which an enlisted man is bound.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Enlock \En*lock"\, v. t.
      To lock; to inclose.

From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   Email Quotes and Inclusion Conventions
  
      One area where conventions for on-line writing are still in some flux
   is the marking of included material from earlier messages -- what would
   be called `block quotations' in ordinary English.   From the usual
   typographic convention employed for these (smaller font at an extra
   indent), there derived a practice of included text being indented by
   one ASCII TAB (0001001) character, which under Unix and many other
   environments gives the appearance of an 8-space indent.
  
      Early mail and netnews readers had no facility for including messages
   this way, so people had to paste in copy manually.   BSD `Mail(1)' was
   the first message agent to support inclusion, and early Usenetters
   emulated its style.   But the TAB character tended to push included text
   too far to the right (especially in multiply nested inclusions),
   leading to ugly wraparounds.   After a brief period of confusion (during
   which an inclusion leader consisting of three or four spaces became
   established in EMACS and a few mailers), the use of leading `>' or `> '
   became standard, perhaps owing to its use in `ed(1)' to display tabs
   (alternatively, it may derive from the `>' that some early Unix mailers
   used to quote lines starting with "From" in text, so they wouldn't look
   like the beginnings of new message headers).   Inclusions within
   inclusions keep their `>' leaders, so the `nesting level' of a
   quotation is visually apparent.
  
      The practice of including text from the parent article when posting a
   followup helped solve what had been a major nuisance on Usenet: the
   fact that articles do not arrive at different sites in the same order.
   Careless posters used to post articles that would begin with, or even
   consist entirely of, "No, that's wrong" or "I agree" or the like.   It
   was hard to see who was responding to what.   Consequently, around 1984,
   new news-posting software evolved a facility to automatically include
   the text of a previous article, marked with "> " or whatever the poster
   chose.   The poster was expected to delete all but the relevant lines.
   The result has been that, now, careless posters post articles
   containing the _entire_ text of a preceding article, _followed_ only by
   "No, that's wrong" or "I agree".
  
      Many people feel that this cure is worse than the original disease,
   and there soon appeared newsreader software designed to let the reader
   skip over included text if desired.   Today, some posting software
   rejects articles containing too high a proportion of lines beginning
   with `>' -- but this too has led to undesirable workarounds, such as the
   deliberate inclusion of zero-content filler lines which aren't quoted
   and thus pull the message below the rejection threshold.
  
      Because the default mailers supplied with Unix and other operating
   systems haven't evolved as quickly as human usage, the older
   conventions using a leading TAB or three or four spaces are still
   alive; however, >-inclusion is now clearly the prevalent form in both
   netnews and mail.
  
      Inclusion practice is still evolving, and disputes over the
   `correct' inclusion style occasionally lead to {holy wars}.
  
      Most netters view an inclusion as a promise that comment on it will
   immediately follow.   The preferred, conversational style looks like
   this,
  
            > relevant excerpt 1
            response to excerpt
            > relevant excerpt 2
            response to excerpt
            > relevant excerpt 3
            response to excerpt
  
   or for short messages like this:
  
            > entire message
            response to message
  
   Thanks to poor design of some PC-based mail agents, one will
   occasionally see the entire quoted message _after_ the response, like
   this
  
            response to message
            > entire message
  
   but this practice is strongly deprecated.
  
      Though `>' remains the standard inclusion leader, `|' is
   occasionally used for extended quotations where original variations in
   indentation are being retained (one mailer even combines these and uses
   `|>').   One also sees different styles of quoting a number of authors
   in the same message: one (deprecated because it loses information) uses
   a leader of `> ' for everyone, another (the most common) is `> > > > ',
   `> > > ', etc. (or `>>>> ', `>>>', etc., depending on line length and
   nesting depth) reflecting the original order of messages, and yet
   another is to use a different citation leader for each author, say
   `> ', `: ', `| ', `} ' (preserving nesting so that the inclusion order
   of messages is still apparent, or tagging the inclusions with authors'
   names).   Yet _another_ style is to use each poster's initials (or login
   name) as a citation leader for that poster.
  
      Occasionally one sees a `# ' leader used for quotations from
   authoritative sources such as standards documents; the intended
   allusion is to the root prompt (the special Unix command prompt issued
   when one is running as the privileged super-user).
  
  
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