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akin to Gr allied animal arch atum bear belonging bend bird body called cause Celt church cloth colour conn containing cover discourse disease dress Dutch equal facio fär fasten fate fero fish flowers Gael genus give Goth gram grow head hèr hold hollow horse Hyperbaton hypochondria ichnographical ichthys instrument intensive inter kind light liquid logos low L manner mark measure ment metal metron mind mîne moon mõte müte n.pl ness old E old Fr one's ornament pa.p pa.t person pertaining piece plant pr.p priv prob produce pron prov quadruped relating resembling root round Scot shew ship side skin soft sound species stone substance thing throw tion tree v.t. lit v.t. orig vessel word writing
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Page 68 - . BOOK III. THE CIRCLE, AND THE MEASURE OF ANGLES. Definitions. 1. A circle is a plane figure bounded by a line, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the center.
Page 169 - . , the act of falling, in any of its senses ; descent by gravity; a dropping down: overthrow ; death : descent from a better to a worse position : slope or declivity : descent of water ; a cascade ; length of a fall : outlet of a river : decrease...
Page 9 - Alliteration is the repetition of the same letter at the begin-ning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals...
Page 238 - The section is an hyperbola, when the cutting plane makes a greater angle with the base than the side of the cone makes.
Page 187 - ... the pupils on a form, a class ; the bed of a hare, which takes its shape from the animal's body.
Page 64 - OT dead f in chess, a check^ given to the adversary's king when in a position in which it can neither be protected nor moved out of check, so that the game is finished ; fig., a complete check ; defeat; overthrow.
Page 122 - Diameter, dl-am'e-ter, n., the measure through or across; a straight line passing through the centre of a circle or other figure, terminated at both ends by the circumference, and dividing the figure into two equal parts ; the distance through the centre of any object.
Page 77 - Colures are two great circles, imagined to intersect each other at right angles in the poles of the world : one...
Page 59 - Cathedral, ka-thC'dral, n. lit* a teat ; the principal church of a diocese in which is the seat, or throne of a bishop* — adj.
Page 231 - Hop, hop, vi to leap on one leg; to spring: to walk lame; to limp :— pr.p. hopp'ing; pa.p. hopped'. — n. a leap on one leg; a jump; a spring. [AS hoppian.] hopper, hop er, «., one who hops : a wooden trough through which grain passes into a mill, so called from its hopping or shaking motion : a vessel in which seed-corn is carried for sowing. hopple, hop'l, vt to tie the feet close together to prevent hopping or running.