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Ear⋅ly

[ur-lee]
–noun
Ju⋅bal Anderson [joo-buhl] , 1816–94, Confederate general in the U.S. Civil War.
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Ear·ly   (ûr'lē)   
American Confederate general whose forces threatened Washington, D.C. (1864) but were ultimately defeated by Union troops led by Philip H. Sheridan (1865).
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early 
O.E. ærlice, from ær "soon, ere" (from P.Gmc. *airiz, from PIE *ayer- "day, morning") + -lice "-ly," adverbial suffix. The early bird of the proverb is from 1670s.
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