Chambers's etymological dictionary of the English language, ed. by J. Donald |
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akin to Gr allied ancient ancient Rome animal arch atum bear belonging bend bird body called cause Celt church cloth coin colour conn consisting containing contr corr cover discourse disease doublet dress facio fero fish flower freq fruit Gael genus Goth gram grow head hold horse ically imitative inclose instrument inter kind land lego light liquid logos Low L manner mark meaning measure ment metal metron mind n.pl ness one's orig origin ornament pa.p pa.t perh person pertaining piece plant pr.p præ privative prob produce pron Prov quadruped relating resembling root round Scand Scot shew ship side skin sound stone substance Teut thing throw tion tree v.t. to put vessel word writing
Δημοφιλή αποσπάσματα
Σελίδα 135 - The dividend is the number to be divided. The divisor is the number by which we divide.
Σελίδα 73 - One is, that a circle is bounded by a line, every point of which is equally distant from a certain point within the circle.
Σελίδα 324 - The moment of a force about a point is the product of the force and the perpendicular distance from the line of action of the force to the point.
Σελίδα 220 - 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 12 - 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...
Σελίδα 62 - CARAPACE. A protective shield. The upper shell of the tortoise, turtle, crab, lobster and other '• '/ '«/acea.
Σελίδα 82 - COLURES, in astronomy and geography, two great circles, supposed to intersect each other at right angles in the poles of the world, and to pass through the solstitial and equinoctial points ofthe ecliptic.
Σελίδα 78 - Cluster, klus'tcr, я. a number of things of the same kind growing or joined together : a bunch : a mass. — vi to grow or gather into clusters. — vt to collect into clusters.
Σελίδα 70 - . 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 : a complete check : defeat : overthrow.
Σελίδα 208 - Romance samarra, the skirt of a mantua, from the legend that it is the shreds of the Virgin Mary's shroud which she cast away when she was taken up to heaven ; Skeat thinks it is formed of goose and summer^ of which summer may {as in Ger.