| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Humane society | A humane society is a group that aims to stop animal and human suffering due to cruelty or other reasons. (references) | ||
| Royal Humane Society | In the summer of 1774 each of them brought fifteen friends to a meeting at the Chapter Coffee-house, St Paul's Churchyard, when the Royal Humane Society was founded. The society, the chief offices of which are at 4 Trafalgar Square, London, has upwards of 280 depots throughout the kingdom, supplied with life-saving apparatus. The chief and earliest of these depots is the Receiving House in Hyde Park, on the north bank of the Serpentine, which was built in 1794 on a site granted by George III. (references) | ||
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