Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language1879 |
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Σελίδα 27 - One of a system of cylindrical, membranous, elastic, and muscular vessels or tubes, which convey the blood from the heart to all parts of the body...
Σελίδα 133 - The sidereal day is the interval between two successive transits of the first point of Aries over the same meridian.
Σελίδα 247 - Three lines are in harmonical proportion, when the first is to the third, as the difference between the first and second, is to the difference between the second and third ; and the second is called a harmonic mean between the first and third. The expression 'harmonical proportion...
Σελίδα 268 - There is the same reason to doubt of the union of the three Persons in the Godhead, of the union of the divine and human natures in the person of the Son of God, and even the union of our own souls and bodies.
Σελίδα 140 - Government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of the people collectively.
Σελίδα 28 - ... equator intercepted between the first point of Aries and the circle of declination passing through the place of the body in the celestial concave.
Σελίδα 226 - ... vulgar acceptations it means any one who lives without labour, in another without manual labour, and in its more elevated signification it has in every age signified the conduct, character, habits, and outward appearance, in whomsoever found, which, according to the ideas of that age, belonged or were expected to belong to persons born and educated in a high social position. It continually happens that of two words, whose dictionary meanings are either the same or very slightly different, one...
Σελίδα 189 - AD 1574), in anat., applied to a tube or canal extending from behind the soft palate to the tympanum of the ear, to which it conveys the air: etutacbian valve, a fold of the lining membrane of the heart.
Σελίδα 125 - Josh. 3: 4; the length of a man's arm from the elbow to the extremity of the middle finger.
Σελίδα 276 - ATE, unequally -pinnate, pinnate leaf ending in an odd leaflet. INARCHING, a mode of grafting by bending two growing plants towards each other, and causing a branch of the one to unite to the other. INARTICULATE, without joints or interruption to continuity.