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SIMPSON

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Scottish obstetrician and surgeon who pioneered in the use of ether and discovered the anesthetic effects of chloroform (1811-1870)

Synonyms:

Simpson; Sir James Young Simpson

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

doc; doctor; Dr.; MD; medico; physician (a licensed medical practitioner)

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States divorcee whose marriage to Edward VIII created a constitutional crisis leading to his abdication

Synonyms:

Duchess of Windsor; Mrs. Simpson; Simpson; Wallis Warfield Simpson; Wallis Warfield Windsor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

divorcee; grass widow (a divorced woman or a woman who is separated from her husband)

Credits

 Context examples: 

I went to Devonshire with the conviction that Fitzroy Simpson was the true culprit, although, of course, I saw that the evidence against him was by no means complete.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Simpson in his flight had dropped his cravat, and Straker had picked it up—with some idea, perhaps, that he might use it in securing the horse’s leg.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In this bag I have one of the boots which Straker wore, one of Fitzroy Simpson’s shoes, and a cast horseshoe of Silver Blaze.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His bridle is missing, so that Simpson must have put this on.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The net is drawn pretty close round Fitzroy Simpson, he remarked, and I believe myself that he is our man.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Now, presuming that there was some understanding between Simpson and these gypsies, might he not have been leading the horse to them when he was overtaken, and may they not have him now?

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Therefore Simpson becomes eliminated from the case, and our attention centres upon Straker and his wife, the only two people who could have chosen curried mutton for supper that night.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Simpson incident had shown me that a dog was kept in the stables, and yet, though some one had been in and had fetched out a horse, he had not barked enough to arouse the two lads in the loft.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The police imagine, I take it, that this Fitzroy Simpson, having drugged the lad, and having in some way obtained a duplicate key, opened the stable door and took out the horse, with the intention, apparently, of kidnapping him altogether.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Simpson beat out the trainer’s brains with his heavy stick without receiving any injury from the small knife which Straker used in self-defence, and then the thief either led the horse on to some secret hiding-place, or else it may have bolted during the struggle, and be now wandering out on the moors.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)