New Universal Self-pronouncing Dictionary: With an Encyclopedic AppendixWilliam Joseph Pelo John C. Winston Company, 1925 - 624 pages |
Common terms and phrases
å-bl a'shun animal åns bill of exchange bird body cause cloth color Cronus cubic death Dionysus disease dress fish flowers fool fruit Gold Greek god Greek goddess Haikwan Hephæstus Heracles horse i-bl i-nes i-ti instrument interj Jupiter killed kind king Latin Union light liquid Loki manner mark measure ment metal meter musical n.pl ness nouns Odin Odysseus one's p.adj payment person pertaining piece plant prep Priam pron Roman ship shun side sion skilled sound substance taining Teut Teutonic thin thing tion tive tree Trojan Trojan War Troy v.i. to become v.t. to cover v.t. to give v.t. to place v.t. to put v.t. to strike v.t. to take vessel wife wind wood words Zeus Zeus Jupiter
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Page 556 - Dry Measure. — 2 pints = 1 quart; 8 quarts = 1 peck; 4 pecks = 1 bushel.
Page 555 - APOTHECARIES' WEIGHT 20 grains = 1 scruple. 3 scruples = 1 dram. 8 drams = 1 ounce. 12 ounces = 1 pound.
Page 568 - Will expresses the will or pleasure of its own subject. Shall subordinates the will of its subject to that of the speaker. " We will go," means " we are willing to go." " We shall go," means " we have decided upon going." Never say " Will I do so and so ? " The literal meaning of such an expression would be, "Am I willing to do, etc.
Page 546 - LIEN. — A legal claim ; a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty ; the right which a creditor has to retain the property of his debtor, until the debt has been paid.
Page 556 - OF TIME. 60 Seconds = 1 Minute 60 Minutes =± 1 Hour 24 Hours = 1 Day 7 Days = 1 Week 28 Days = 1 Lunar Month...
Page 568 - Nouns ending in y form their plurals by adding s to the singular, but if the final y is preceded by a consonant y is changed to i and es is added to form the plural.
Page 556 - Square Measure. 144 square inches 1 square foot, 9 square feet 1 square yard, 30J square yards 1 square rod, 40 square rods 1 rood, 4 roods 1 acre.
Page 555 - DIVISIONS OF THE CIRCLE. 60 Seconds = 1 Minute. 60 Minutes = 1 Degree. 30 Degrees = 1 Sign. 90 Degrees = 1 Quadrant. 360 Degrees, or 12 Signs = 1 Circumference. Formerly the subdivisions were carried on by sixties ; thus, the second was divided into 60 thirds, the third into 60 fourths, &c.
Page 553 - Litre, unit of capacity, is derived from the weight of one kilogram pure water at greatest density, a cube whose edge is one-tenth of a metre and, therefore, the one-thousandth part of a metric ton. The Gram, unit of weight, is a cube of pure water at greatest density, whose edge is one-hundredth of a metre, and, therefore, the one-thousandth part of a kilogram, and the one-millionth part of a metric ton.
Page 556 - Standard 1,728 cubic inches 1 cubic foot 27 cubic feet 1 cubic yard 128 cubic feet 1 cord...