1850, Compromise of 1850s 1850s 1853 1860's 1860's 1860s 1860s 1866 Civil Rights Act 187 1870 War 1870's 1870s 1871 Great Chicago Fire 188 1880 fire at Theodor Mommsen's house 1880 fire at Theodor Mommsen's house 1880's 1880s 1890's 1890s 1893 World's Fair 1893 Worlds Fair 1894...
Wikipedia ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend: Switch tonew thesaurus Adj.1. 18th- coming next after the seventeenth in position eighteenth ordinal- being or denoting a numerical order in a series; "ordinal numbers"; "held an ordinal rank of seventh" ...
The previous name of someone who has changed that name, especially the pre-transition first name of a transgender person. Deadname can also refer to the act of calling a person (especially a trans person) by that person’s previous name, as opposed to their chosen or preferred name. Deadn...
(1871–1955) political leader, statesman; born in Overton County, Tenn. A Tennessee legislator and judge, Democratic national committee chairman, U.S. representative (1907–31) and senator (1931–33), he became the longest-termed secretary of state ever under PresidentFranklin Roosevelt(1933–44...
Bristles can refer to the hairs in a man's stubble or to the hairs of an animal used to make grooming tools. Broadcloth BROAD-cloth Shirting fabric in a plain weave that is not a balanced weave, so that it has a very slight horizontal rib. ...
The first transcontinental line began in 1871. By the turn of the century, there were more than a million miles of telegraph lines. A Pointer Telegraph In the mid-1800s, chemist and engineer Werner von Siemens invented a telegraph system that moved a pointer over a letter. The operator ...
or, in English, 'headline act', the top act or performer on a vaudeville or revue bill Head-motiv see 'motto theme' Head of bell the top of the bell proper and the main node of its vibrations. In England, it is known as the crown Headphones also known as earphones, stereophones, ...
Leave-taking act of taking one's leave Leavings things left over Lebbra (Italian f.) leprosy Leben (German n.) life, vivacity lebendig (German) lively, active, animated, vivacious, brisk lebendiger (German) livelier lebendige Vorstellung (von) (German) realization (of) ...
Heinrich[hahyn-rik;Germanhahyn-rikh],1871–1950,German novelist and dramatist, in the U.S. after 1940 (brother of Thomas Mann). Horace,1796–1859,U.S. educational reformer: instrumental in establishing the first normal school in the U.S. 1839. ...
itself, there is often found such a diversity that in those respects many strangers show more resemblance to them than they show to one another, even though the smallest possible interval separated their births and though they were conceived at the same moment, by a single act of intercourse....