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Anabasis
noun · 78% connection
A journey or expedition up from the coast, like that of the younger Cyrus into Central Asia, described by Xenophon in his work called…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: persian, measure, length, according, herodotus.
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: persian, measure, length, according, herodotus.
Boomerang
noun · 78% connection
A very singular missile weapon used by the natives of Australia and in some parts of India. It is usually a curved stick of hard wood,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: persian, measure, length, according, herodotus.
Centimetre
noun · 78% connection
The hundredth part of a meter; a measure of length equal to rather more than thirty-nine hundredths (0.3937) of an inch. See Meter.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: persian, measure, length, according, herodotus.
Climate
verb · 78% connection
One of thirty regions or zones, parallel to the equator, into which the surface of the earth from the equator to the pole was divided,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: persian, measure, length, according, herodotus.
Coss
noun · 78% connection
A Hindoo measure of distance, varying from one and a half to two English miles.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: persian, measure, length, according, herodotus.
Cyclone
noun · 78% connection
A violent storm, often of vast extent, characterized by high winds rotating about a calm center of low atmospheric pressure. This cent…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: persian, measure, length, according, herodotus.
Decillion
noun · 78% connection
According to the English notation, a million involved to the tenth power, or a unit with sixty ciphers annexed; according to the Frenc…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: persian, measure, length, according, herodotus.
Demicannon
noun · 78% connection
A kind of ordnance, carrying a ball weighing from thirty to thirty-six pounds.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: persian, measure, length, according, herodotus.
Dimension
noun · 78% connection
Measure in a single line, as length, breadth, height, thickness, or circumference; extension; measurement; -- usually, in the plural,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: persian, measure, length, according, herodotus.
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: persian, measure, length, according, herodotus.
Fortieth
adjective · 78% connection
Following the thirty-ninth, or preceded by thirty-nine units, things, or parts.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: persian, measure, length, according, herodotus.
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: persian, measure, length, according, herodotus.
Inch
noun · 78% connection
A measure of length, the twelfth part of a foot, commonly subdivided into halves, quarters, eights, sixteenths, etc., as among mechani…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: persian, measure, length, according, herodotus.
Knot
noun · 78% connection
A division of the log line, serving to measure the rate of the vessel's motion. Each knot on the line bears the same proportion to a m…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: persian, measure, length, according, herodotus.
Lava
noun · 78% connection
The melted rock ejected by a volcano from its top or fissured sides. It flows out in streams sometimes miles in length. It also issues…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: persian, measure, length, according, herodotus.
League
noun · 78% connection
A measure of length or distance, varying in different countries from about 2.4 to 4.6 English statute miles of 5.280 feet each, and us…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: persian, measure, length, according, herodotus.
Mars
noun · 78% connection
One of the planets of the solar system, the fourth in order from the sun, or the next beyond the earth, having a diameter of about 4,2…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: persian, measure, length, according, herodotus.
