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Ellsworth

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Noun

1. ellsworth, oliver ellsworth

United States jurist and the third chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1745-1807)

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Ellsworth

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1. 
Lincoln1880-1951; U.S. polar explorer
2. 
Oliver1745-1807; U.S. jurist: chief justice of the U.S. (1796-1800)

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

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American jurist and politician. A US senator from Connecticut (1789-1796), he worked on the legislation that created the federal court system (1789) and later served as the chief justice of the US Supreme Court (1796-1800).
American explorer who took part in several polar expeditions, including a 1935 flight across the Antarctic, during which he claimed large tracts for the United States.

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