Noah Webster
Websters Dictionary 1828
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Riddance
RID'DANCE, noun
1. Deliverance; a setting free; as riddance from all adversity.
2. Disencumbrance.
3. The act of clearing away.
Thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field. Leviticus 23:22.