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Alla breve
unknown · 78% connection
With one breve, or four minims, to measure, and sung faster like four crotchets; in quick common time; -- indicated in the time signat…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, four, bushels, half, quarter.
Bath
noun · 78% connection
A Hebrew measure containing the tenth of a homer, or five gallons and three pints, as a measure for liquids; and two pecks and five qu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, four, bushels, half, quarter.
Boll
noun · 78% connection
A Scotch measure, formerly in use: for wheat and beans it contained four Winchester bushels; for oats, barley, and potatoes, six bushe…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, four, bushels, half, quarter.
Bushel
noun · 78% connection
A quantity that fills a bushel measure; as, a heap containing ten bushels of apples.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, four, bushels, half, quarter.
Cantarro
noun · 78% connection
A liquid measure in Spain, ranging from two and a half to four gallons.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, four, bushels, half, quarter.
Chaldron
noun · 78% connection
An English dry measure, being, at London, 36 bushels heaped up, or its equivalent weight, and more than twice as much at Newcastle. No…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, four, bushels, half, quarter.
Chetvert
noun · 78% connection
A measure of grain equal to 0.7218 of an imperial quarter, or 5.95 Winchester bushels.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, four, bushels, half, quarter.
Cord
noun · 78% connection
A solid measure, equivalent to 128 cubic feet; a pile of wood, or other coarse material, eight feet long, four feet high, and four fee…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, four, bushels, half, quarter.
Cottise
noun · 78% connection
A diminutive of the bendlet, containing one half its area or one quarter the area of the bend. When a single cottise is used alone it…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, four, bushels, half, quarter.
Crotchet
noun · 78% connection
A time note, with a stem, having one fourth the value of a semibreve, one half that of a minim, and twice that of a quaver; a quarter…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, four, bushels, half, quarter.
Eking
verb · 78% connection
The carved work under the quarter piece at the aft part of the quarter gallery.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, four, bushels, half, quarter.
Fanega
noun · 78% connection
A dry measure in Spain and Spanish America, varying from 1/ to 2/ bushels; also, a measure of land.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, four, bushels, half, quarter.
Finger
noun · 78% connection
The breadth of a finger, or the fourth part of the hand; a measure of nearly an inch; also, the length of finger, a measure in domesti…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, four, bushels, half, quarter.
Four-in-hand
adjective · 78% connection
Consisting of four horses controlled by one person; as, a four-in-hand team; drawn by four horses driven by one person; as, a four-in-…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, four, bushels, half, quarter.
Fourpence
noun · 78% connection
A name formerly given in New England to the Spanish half real, a silver coin worth six and a quarter cents.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, four, bushels, half, quarter.
Gallery
adjective · 78% connection
A frame, like a balcony, projecting from the stern or quarter of a ship, and hence called stern gallery or quarter gallery, -- seldom…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, four, bushels, half, quarter.
Gallon
noun · 78% connection
A measure of capacity, containing four quarts; -- used, for the most part, in liquid measure, but sometimes in dry measure.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, four, bushels, half, quarter.
Half
adverb · 78% connection
In an equal part or degree; in some pa/ appro/mating a half; partially; imperfectly; as, half-colored, half done, half-hearted, half p…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, four, bushels, half, quarter.
