Get your mind out of the gutter, lad, or you’ll be doing lines for the rest ofterm! The Welsh name for this village located in Powys is Aberllynfi. TheEnglish name is a relatively recent addition, taken from the former ThreeCocks rai...
A proper name of a man. johnsonian adjective (a.) Pertaining to or resembling Dr. Johnson or his style; pompous; inflated. join noun (n.) The line joining two points; the point common to two intersecting lines. verb (v. t.) To bring together, literally or figuratively; to place in...
Yesterday:Algiers Pointdates back to the finding of New Orleans and had also been referred to as Point Antoine, Point Marigny, and Slaughter House Point over the centuries. The original land (now known as Algiers) was granted to Bienville and established in 1719. Its official name became Duve...
An ornament consisting of smmall fillets or slats intersecting each other or bent at right angles, as in classical designs, or at obilique angles, as often in Oriental art. noun (n.) The reticulated headdress or net, made of gold or silver wire, in which ladies in the Middle Ages ...
Cross – A geometrical figure having two intersecting lines Kennedy – Meaning “Helmeted chief” in the Gaelic language Dice – A small cube having spots on all sides Eye – Organ Ebony – Dark brown timber from a tropical tree Emery – An abrasive that is grayish-black in color Gato –...
The religious house gave its name not only to Abbey Road but also the intersecting Priory Road and Priory Terrace, and nearby Abbot’s Place, to name a few. Of course, Abbey Road is famous for being the location of EMI’s Recording Studios (later renamed the Abbey Road Studios, they are...
The line joining two points; the point common to two intersecting lines. verb (v. t.) To bring together, literally or figuratively; to place in contact; to connect; to couple; to unite; to combine; to associate; to add; to append. verb (v. t.) To associate one's self to; to ...
A form of sacred or hieratic writing. heliogram noun (n.) A message transmitted by a heliograph. hexagram noun (n.) A figure of six lines noun (n.) A figure composed of two equal triangles intersecting so that each side of one triangle is parallel to a side of the other, and the ...
The description or representation of anything as it would appear if cut through by any intersecting plane; depiction of what is beyond a plane passing through, or supposed to pass through, an object, as a building, a machine, a succession of strata; profile. secularization noun (n.) The ...
One of two great circles intersecting at right angles in the poles of the equator. One of them passes through the equinoctial points, and hence is denominated the equinoctial colure; the other intersects the equator at the distance of 90¡ from the former, and is called the solstitial ...