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Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 1 1 Browse Search
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e foot on the stirrup and cord, and the jaws locked by an arm while the tie or band is placed around the cigars. Cigar-ette′. A small package of cut tobacco done up in a rolled paper envelope. The envelope is made of rice, tobacco, or corn-husk. The latter is the best. Cigarette-filler. Cigar-lighter. Cigar-ette′--fill′er. A little implement for introducing the finely cut tobacco into the paper envelope. It has two forms; a tube and a wrapper. The former is shown in Fig. 1293. A roll of paper is wrapped around a tube, and its inner end clamped between two short tubes or collars; the tube is filled with tobacco and withdrawn, leaving the tobacco in the paper envelope. A hollow piston maintains the position of the tobacco while the tube is withdrawn and forms a stem. Cigar-ette — ma-chine′. Adorno's cigarette-machine uses an endless roll of paper. It cuts, wraps, and folds the paper around a regulated quantity of tobacco, which is supplied at one end of