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Definition of Improvers
1. improver [n] - See also: improver
Lexicographical Neighbors of Improvers
Literary usage of Improvers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Chronicles of Baltimore: Being a Complete History of "Baltimore Town by John Thomas Scharf (1874)
"None shall keep or raise any swine, geese, or sheep, within the said town, unless
they be well inclosed within some lot or pen. such improvers) be forever ..."
2. Landscape Gardening by Andrew Jackson Downing, Frank Albert Waugh (1921)
"CHAPTER XII HINTS TO RURAL improvers* ONE of the most striking proofs of the ...
No one now would think of addressing an essay to "rural improvers" nor of ..."
3. Rural Essays by Andrew Jackson Downing, George William Curtis, Fredrika Bremer (1858)
"... TO RURAL improvers. July, 1848. ONE of the most striking proofs of the progress
of refinement, in the United States, is the rapid increase of taste for ..."
4. Notes on North America, Agricultural, Economical, and Social by James Finlay Weir Johnston (1851)
"Intelligent improvers at Chatham.—Improving influence of granite boulders.—Thorough-drainage
on Mr Cunard's farm.—Growth of fruit-trees. ..."
5. Notes and Sketches [i]llustrative of Northern Rural Life in the Eighteenth by William Alexander (1877)
"EARLY AGRICULTURAL improvers—SIR ARCHIBALD GRANT OF MONYMUSK—improvers IN THE
... ALTHOUGH the Society of improvers in the Knowledge of Agriculture had, ..."
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