"a. m." meaning in English

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          "ref": "1804 May 26, Caledonian Mercury, number 12,905, Edinburgh: […] Robert Allan",
          "text": "Yeſterday at half paſt five a. m. I received information from Captain Hancock, then off Oſtend, that the enemy’s flotilla was hauling out of that pier, and had already twenty-one one-maſted veſſels, and one ſchooner, outſide in the roads;",
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          "ref": "1823 July 10, The Morning Post, number 16,396",
          "text": "[…]; and remain with the outward bound as per last, except the Mary for Calcutta, which sailed at five a. m.",
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          "ref": "1930 October 4, Joseph Faus, ““Oh, Miss Dentist!”: Being the ridiculous romance of Oliver Whidden, insurance salesman, who found his love in the cavity of a bad tooth”, in Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune, seventeenth year, number 5286, Wisconsin Rapids, Wis., page six",
          "text": "Come again Tuesday at 10 a. m.[…]TUESDAY at 10 a. m. Mr. Oliver Whidden was no sooner in the chair than the dentistress synchronously began dental and verbal operations.",
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          "ref": "1958 October 12, Cumberland Sunday Times, volume LXXXIX, number 281, Cumberland, Md., page four",
          "text": "He goes into an all-night doughnutery at 3:40 a. m. and falls to talking with the lonely counterman, who is a college student as well and who isn’t satisfied with just selling doughnuts and coffee. He looks into things. THIS SAME young man’s bride, also a college student and part-time researcher, came in at 3:55 a. m and her contribution to lore was that the first home air-conditioning unit was seven feet high, six feet wide and twenty feet long and was installed in the three-story mansion of Charlie Gates, son of John W. (Bet-a-Million) Gates.",
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          "ref": "1804 May 26, Caledonian Mercury, number 12,905, Edinburgh: […] Robert Allan",
          "text": "Yeſterday at half paſt five a. m. I received information from Captain Hancock, then off Oſtend, that the enemy’s flotilla was hauling out of that pier, and had already twenty-one one-maſted veſſels, and one ſchooner, outſide in the roads;",
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          "ref": "1823 July 10, The Morning Post, number 16,396",
          "text": "[…]; and remain with the outward bound as per last, except the Mary for Calcutta, which sailed at five a. m.",
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          "ref": "1930 October 4, Joseph Faus, ““Oh, Miss Dentist!”: Being the ridiculous romance of Oliver Whidden, insurance salesman, who found his love in the cavity of a bad tooth”, in Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune, seventeenth year, number 5286, Wisconsin Rapids, Wis., page six",
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          "text": "He goes into an all-night doughnutery at 3:40 a. m. and falls to talking with the lonely counterman, who is a college student as well and who isn’t satisfied with just selling doughnuts and coffee. He looks into things. THIS SAME young man’s bride, also a college student and part-time researcher, came in at 3:55 a. m and her contribution to lore was that the first home air-conditioning unit was seven feet high, six feet wide and twenty feet long and was installed in the three-story mansion of Charlie Gates, son of John W. (Bet-a-Million) Gates.",
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