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Fig. Clever, expert, proficient, superlatively apt and accomplished. It is a common word, constantly in use, as our Adept, dab, dabster, capital, expressing perfection in whatever art, craft, or work. 2 Applied by some, who heed not the charge of laxity, in the sense of Fine, superb, splendid, noble, grand, to beasts, buildings, crops, soil, country &c.
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