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brill

[bril]
–noun, plural brills, (especially collectively) brill.
a European flatfish, Scophthalmus rhombus, closely related to the turbot.

Origin:
1475–85; of uncert. orig.

Brill

[bril]
–noun
A(braham) A(rden), 1874–1948, U.S. psychoanalyst and author, born in Austria.

Hal⋅sted

[hawl-stid, -sted]
–noun
William Stewart (“Brill”), 1852–1922, U.S. surgeon and educator.
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brill   (brĭl)   
n.   pl. brill or brills
An edible flatfish (Bothas rhombus) of European waters.

[Origin unknown.]
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Halsted Hal·sted (hôl'stəd, -stěd'), William Stewart. 1852-1922.

American surgeon who developed the use of cocaine in anesthesiology and proposed the use of rubber gloves during surgery.

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