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forgery Noun pl -geries 1. an illegal copy of a painting, banknote, antique, etc. 2. the crime of making a fraudulent imitation
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At so much a week, they had engaged the services of a young man (pers onally known to Benjamin), who was employed in a laboratory under a professor of chemistry, and who had distinguished himself by his skillful manipulation of paper in a recent case of forgery on a well-known London firm. Listen; this is his description: `Benedetto, condemned, at the age of sixteen, for five years to the galleys for forgery. They were mostly of a felonious character; comprising the pen with which a celebrated forgery had been committed, a distinguished razor or two, some locks of hair, and several manuscript confessions written under condemnation - upon which Mr. |
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