Quipu: alternatives and connections

A genus of plants (order Amaryllidaceae) of which the chief species is the maguey or century plant (A. Americana), wrongly called Aloe…

Any instrument or contrivance serving a purpose like that of a ship's anchor, as an arrangement of timber to hold a dam fast; a contri…

belonging to times long past especially of the historical period before the fall of the Western Roman Empire; "ancient history"; "anci…

An optical toy for producing amusing figures or pictures by means of two revolving disks, on one of which distorted figures are painte…

Figures or half figures of men, used as columns to support an entablature; -- called also telamones. See Caryatides.

A cord, ligament, or rod, for producing or maintaining tension, as a cord on the side of a drum.

The whitish mass of soft matter (the center of the nervous system, and the seat of consciousness and volition) which is inclosed in th…

A representation of the crucifixion, consisting of three crosses with the figures of Christ and the thieves, often as large as life, a…

A cord. See Cord, n., 4.

To bind with a cord; to fasten with cords; to connect with cords; to ornament or finish with a cord or cords, as a garment.

A contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel…

One appointed as the substitute of another, and empowered to act for him, in his name or his behalf; a substitute in office; a lieuten…

An optical toy; a card on which confused or imperfect figures are drawn, but which form to the eye regular figures when the card is ra…

One who dances at the opera, not singly, but in groups or figures; an accessory character on the stage, who figures in its scenes, but…

Adorned with figures; marked with figures; as, figured muslin.

A device for producing a striking display of light, or a figure or figures in plain or colored fire, by the combustion of materials th…

A cord, baud, or bundle of fibers; esp., one of the small bundles of fibers, of which large nerves are made up; applied also to differ…

A cord; specifically, the umbilical cord or navel string.