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SIGNET

A signet is a private seal used on documents and personal letters. The privy
signet is the personal seal of the British Sovereign used on private documents.
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George Combe was a Scottish jurist, educationist, phrenologist and social reformer. He was born in 1788 at Edinburgh and died in 1858. The brother of Andrew Combe, he was bred to the law, and in 1812 was admitted a member of the Society of Writers to the Signet. He was the first to introduce the doctrines of phrenology into Great Britain; and visited Germany and America lecturing on his favourite science. He was also a zealous promoter of the cause of popular education and social progress; and was among the first to advocate compulsory education and the establishment of a board of health. Besides the Constitution of Man, published in 1828, and which has had an enormous circulation, he is the author of A System of Phrenology (1825); Lectures on Popular Education (1833); Moral Philosophy (1840); The Life and Correspondence of his brother, Dr. Andrew Combe (1850); Principles of Criminal Legislation and Prison Discipline Investigated (1854); and the Relation between Science and Keligion (1857).
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JAMES GRAHAME

James Grahame was a Scottish poet. He was born in 1765 at Glasgow and died in 1811. He studied law in Edinburgh, and in 1791 became a Writer to the Signet. In 1795 he was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates, of which he continued a member until 1809, when he took orders as a clergyman of the Church of England. Previous to this all his literary productions had been published. While at the university he printed and circulated a collection of poetical pieces. These appeared in an amended form in 1797. In 1801 he published a dramatic poem entitled Mary, Queen of Scotland, and in 1802 appeared, anonymously, The Sabbath. The Birds of Scotland, and British Georgics followed. He subsequently held curacies at Shefton, Durham, and Sedgefield, but his health gave way, and he died at Glasgow in 1811.

James Grahame wa sa Scottish historian. He was born in 1790 and died in 1842. He published a 'History of the Rise and Progress of the United States of North America till the British Revolution of 1688', which was recognized as a thorough and authoritative work.
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ROBERT FERGUSSON

Robert Fergusson was a Scottish poet. He was born in 1750 at Edinburgh and died in 1774. He was educated at St Andrews University, and became clerk to a writer of the signet in Edinburgh. He wrote poems, of which those in the Scottish dialect have genuine poetic excellence. After his death he was buried in the Canongate Churchyard, Edinburgh, where Burns erected a monument to the memory of this kindred genius, to whom he owed suggestions for several of his own poems.
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WILLIAM AYTOUN

William Edmondstoune Aytoun was a Scottish poet and prose writer. He was born in 1813 at Edinburgh in 1813 and died in1865. Educated at the University of Edinburgh, he became a writer to the signet in 1835, and passed as advocate in 1840. He issued a volume of poems in 1832, by 1836 was a contributor to Blackwood's Magazine, and he published the Life and Times of Richard I in 1840. In 1848 he published a collection of ballads entitled Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers, which has proved the most popular of all his works. It was followed in 1854 by Firmilian, a Spasmodic Tragedy (intended to ridicule certain popular writers); the Bon Gaultier Ballads (parodies and other humorous pieces, in conjunction with Theodore Martin), 1855; in 1856 the poem Bothwell; and in subsequent years by Norman Sinclair, The Glenmutchkin Railway, and other stories. In 1858 he edited a critical and annotated collection of the Ballads of Scotland. A translation of the poems and ballads of Goethe was executed by him in conjunction with Theodore Martin. In 1845 he became professor of rhetoric and English literature in the University of Edinburgh - a position which he held until his death. In 1852 he was appointed Sheriff of Orkney and Shetland.
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WS

WS is an abbreviation for Windshear
WS is an abbreviation for Writer to the Signet
WS is an abbreviation for Weapon System
WS is an abbreviation for Wet Soil
WS is an abbreviation for Western Samoa
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ARRAN SIGNET

Arran Signet is a cultivated variety of potato.
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SIGNET

HMS Signet was a British Bayonet Class boom defence vessel of 530 tons displacement launched in 1939. HMS Signet had a top speed of 11.5 knots and was armed with a 3-inch anti-aircraft gun.
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SIGNET II

The USS Signet was an American Admirable Class minesweeper of 625 tons displacement launched in 1943. The USS Signet was powered by diesel engines providing a top speed of 14.5 knots and carried a complement of 104. She was armed with one 3 inch dual-purpose gun and four 40 mm anti-aircraft guns.
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