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very night signals

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CIDE DICTIONARY

very night signals,  [After Lieut. Samuel W. Very, who invented the system in 1877.].
     A system of signaling in which balls of red and green fire are fired from a pistol, the arrangement in groups denoting numbers having a code significance. The pistol used to fire the signal flare is called a Very pistol.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

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