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H AW T H O R N E Any numerous rosaceous plants of the genus Crataegus. Usually small trees with stiff thorns, certain species of which have white and pink blossoms and bright-colored fruits. A thorny Old World shrub. U.S. novelist and short-story writer. A city in southern California . Any numerous Spiritisms and haunts of recent dementia, or any darkling remonstrations of autumn Wedgwood sky. Usually standing water collecting sonorous echoes from a nearby ancient well. Of groundcover decaying fast over Mohawk burial grounds, also known as rusting car parts in rolling pastures behind the access road to the reservoir. Any broken flagpole outside a barbershop down a crumbling mainstream: Population 347. Formerly a junkshop waistcoat, the velvet crooked and damp. Any alpine excess of Victoriana fanning into empire. 91 ...

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