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Exceedingly or excessively cunning.

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Yamen

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1. In China, the official headquarters or residence of a mandarin, including court rooms, offices, gardens, prisons, etc.; the place where the business of any public department is transcated.

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The Mongol loaded his documents and his servants on eleven camels and left his yamen. - "Beasts, Men and Gods", Ferdinand Ossendowski.
His room, a great apartment in the local governor's yamen, showed on all sides evidences of the thoroughness with which the Japanese were conducting this campaign. - "Korea's Fight for Freedom", F.A. McKenzie.
No reply being received, on the morning of the 20th the German minister, Baron von Ketteler, set out for the Yamen to obtain a response, and oil the way was murdered. - "Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present", Various.

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