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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
BALAAM
BALAAM
Ba
"laam, n.
Defn: A
paragraph
describing
something
wonderful,
used
to
fill
out
a
newspaper
column;
--
an
allusion
to
the
miracle
of
Balaam's
ass
speaking.
Numb.
xxii. 3 . [
Cant
]
Balaam
basket
or
box
(
Print.
),
the
receptacle
for
rejected
articles. Blackw.
Mag.