EU'ROPE, noun [Bochart supposes this word to be composed of white face, the land of white people, as distinguished from the Ethiopians, black-faced people, or tawny inhabitants of Asia and Africa.] The great quarter of the earth that lies between the Atlantic ocean and Asia, and between the Mediterranean sea and the North sea.
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