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Locke

[lok]
–noun
1. Al⋅ain Le⋅Roy [al-in luh-roi, lee-roi] , 1886–1954, U.S. educator and author.
2. David Ross (“Petroleum V. Nasby”), 1833–88, U.S. humorist and journalist.
3. John, 1632–1704, English philosopher.
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Locke   (lŏk)   
American educator and writer who was a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. His works include Four Negro Poets (1927) and Negro Art: Past and Present (1936).
Locke, John 1632-1704.  
English philosopher. In An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690) he set out the principles of empiricism, and his Two Treatises on Government (1690) influenced the Declaration of Independence.
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