Riff

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Webster's Dictionary [1]

(1): ( n.) An arrangement of parallel bars for lifting the hooked wires which raise the warp threads in a loom for weaving figured goods.

(2): ( n.) Grasp; reach.

(3): ( n.) A person of mixed blood.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]

The name given to the N. coast-lands of Morocco from Tangiers to Algeria; is a mountainous and woody region, with a rugged foreshore, inhabited by lawless Berbers.

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