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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary -- Volume AB

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Steele.

A"ny·bod·y (?), n.

1. Any one out of an indefinite number of persons; anyone; any person.

His Majesty could not keep any secret from anybody.
Macaulay.

2. A person of consideration or standing. [Colloq.]

All the men belonged exclusively to the mechanical and shopkeeping classes, and there was not a single banker or anybody in the list.
Lond. Sat. Rev.

A"ny·how` (?), adv. In any way or manner whatever; at any rate; in any event.

Anyhow, it must be acknowledged to be not a simple selforiginated error.
J. H. Newman.
Anyhow, the languages of the two nations were closely allied.
E. A. Freeman.

A"ny·one (?), n. One taken at random rather than by selection; anybody. [Commonly written as two words.]

A"ny·thing (?), n.

1. Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatever; thing of any kind; something or other; aught; as, I would not do it for anything.

Did you ever know of anything so unlucky?
A. Trollope.
They do not know that anything is amiss with them.
W. G. Sumner.

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