 | Early English newspapers - 1880 - 808 pages
...20^ inches, or about a f1ftieth of an inch less. For a person of average height, it is equal to about the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger, plus a hand's-breadth, the former distance being the natural cubit (for a person of such height). The... | |
 | Choice literature - 1880 - 1170 pages
...2UÍ inches, or about a fiftieth of an inch less. For a person of average height it is equal to about the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger, plun a hand's breadth, the former distance being the natural cubit (for a person of such height). The... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - Astronomy - 1882 - 444 pages
...\ inches, or about a fiftieth of an inch less. For a person of average height, it is equal to about the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger, plus a hand's-breadth, the former distance being the natural cubit (for a person of such height). The... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - Astrology - 1883 - 390 pages
...2of inches, or about a fiftieth of an inch less. For a person of average height, it is equal to about the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger, plus a hand's-breadth, the former distance being the natural cubit (for a person of such height). The... | |
 | Robert Hunter - Bible - 1894 - 862 pages
...quartz. Cubit [English, from Lilt, culiitiim = " an elbow," "a cubit "]. A measure of length, being the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger, which in an average man is about a foot and a half. In the Old Testament it is the rendering of the... | |
 | Xenophon, Morris Hicky Morgan - Greece - 1894 - 640 pages
...5. 7, 8, ii. 3. 11. irf)xvs, ews, ¿, prop, forearm; hence, as a natural measure oí length, cubit, the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger, Lat. с libitum, iv. 7. 16. As an exact linear measure the irifx"* equalled H Greek feet, or .444 metres,... | |
 | William Henry Hodge - Intuition - 1903 - 502 pages
...have taken our different measures from it, as is indicated by the names which they bear. A cubit is the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger; we speak of a " hair's-breadth," of a " span-long," the distance from end of the thumb to end of little... | |
 | 1904 - 972 pages
...diameter. These beams are filled in with twigs and the whole is covered with earth to a depth equal to the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger. This roof has a hatchway sufficiently large to admit the objects deposited within. The roof is level,... | |
 | Xenophon - 1905 - 548 pages
...marsh), mud, mire, i. 5. 7, 8, ii. 3. 11. irifavs, fas, 6, forearm, as a measure of length, cubit, the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger. The iriJxus was one and one-half Greek feet, or almost one foot five and one-half inches in English... | |
 | Sir Charles Alfred Bell - Tibetan language - 1905 - 676 pages
...RT \. Ko-sa-tsa Tsha-pho SKaK-sa the span from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the middle finger. the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger. Distance f rom tne middle finger tip of one hand to that of the other with both arms outstretched.... | |
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For a person of average height, it is equal to about the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger, plus a hand's-breadth, the former distance being the natural cubit (for a person of such height). 
