Jonathan†

Obs.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n.

a personification of the United States.

Quotations

1813

. . . Jonathan is said to have taken all that came into his fangs without discrimination.

2n.

an American settler in Canada.

1833

It is almost needless for me to say that this is the mansion of Jonathan, or the U.E. Loyalist. . . .