Word Finder - lists

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A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth.

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Material used for cloth selvage.

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A register or roll of paper consisting of a compilation or enumeration of a set of possible items; the compilation or enumeration itself.

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(in the plural) The barriers or palisades used to fence off a space for jousting or tilting tournaments.

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A codified representation of a list used to store data or in processing; especially, in the LISP programming language, a data structure consisting of a sequence of zero or more items.

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A little square moulding; a fillet or listel.

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A narrow strip of wood, especially sapwood, cut from the edge of a board or plank.

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(ropemaking) A piece of woollen cloth with which the yarns are grasped by a worker.

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(tin-plate manufacture) The first thin coating of tin; a wire-like rim of tin left on an edge of the plate after it is coated.

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A stripe.

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A boundary or limit; a border.

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To create or recite a list.

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To place in listings.

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To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colours, or to form a border.

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To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; to stripe as if with list.

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to list a door

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To plough and plant with a lister.

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To prepare (land) for a cotton crop by making alternating beds and alleys with a hoe.

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To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of.

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to list a board

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To enclose (a field, etc.) for combat.

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To engage a soldier, etc.; to enlist.

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To engage in public service by enrolling one's name; to enlist.

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To listen.

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To listen to.

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To be pleasing to.

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To desire, like, or wish (to do something).

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A tilt to a building.

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A careening or tilting to one side, usually not intentionally or under a vessel's own power.

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To cause (something) to tilt to one side.

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the steady wind listed the ship

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To tilt to one side.

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the ship listed to port

It lists the woman's name and township.

There are two kinds of synaxaria - simple synaxaria, which are merely lists of the saints arranged in the order of their anniversaries, e.g.

Before 22 Prairial the Revolutionary Tribunal had pronounced 1220 death-sentences in thirteen months; during the forty-nine days between the passing of the law and the fall of Robespierre 1376 persons were condemned, including many innocent victims. The lists of prisoners to be sent before the tribunal were prepared by a popular commission sitting at the museum, and signed, after revision, by the Committee of General Security and the Committee of Public Safety jointly.

He did not scruple, for instance, to strike out of the lists of witnesses to medieval charters, before publishing them, the names of families which he disliked.

The first recorded appearance of Henry Chicheley himself is at New College, Oxford, as Checheley, eighth among the undergraduate fellows, in July 1387, in the earliest extant hall-book, which contains weekly lists of those dining in Hall.

Nor was he a commoner in college at Winchester or at New College, as his name does not appear in the Hall books, or lists of those dining in hall, at either college.

During his three years of office as resident he was able to render not a few valuable services to the Company; but it is more important to observe that his name nowhere occurs in the official lists of those who derived pecuniary profit from the necessities and weakness of the native court.

The names of nearly all Napier's classfellows can be traced as becoming determinantes in 1566 and masters of arts in 1568; but his own name does not appear in the lists.

Whiting, mullet, gar-fish, rock cod and many others known by local names, are in the lists of edible fishes belonging to New South Wales and Victoria.

To these lists should be added a paper on the mathematical basis of logic, published in the Mechanic's Magazine for 1848.

The rest sat on, discussing the constitution, drawing up lists of damnable heresies and of incontrovertible articles of faith, producing plans for the reduction of the army and demanding - consolidating his rule and power.

Wagner's year-book, Geographische Jahrbuch, published at Gotha, is the best systematic record of the progress of geography in all departments; and Haack's Geografihen Kalender, also published annually at Gotha, gives complete lists of the geographical societies and geographers of the world.

Capitonidae, are to be excluded from these lists as indifferent.

Their long lists of the occurrences of words and forms fixed with accuracy the present (Masoretic) text, which they had produced, and were invaluable to subsequent lexicographers, while their system of vowel-points and accents not only gives us the pronunciation and manner of reading traditional about the 7th century A.D., but frequently serves also the purpose of an explanatory commentary.

The grass vegetation is very rich, and, according to lists still incomplete, no fewer than 1654 flowering plants are known.

The dispute was to have been decided in the lists at Coventry in September; but at the last moment Richard intervened and banished them both.

The capital of the province is Shiraz, and the subdivision in districts, the chief places of the districts and their estimated population, and the number of inhabited villages in each as they appear in lists dated 1884 and 1905 are shown on the following page.

Many showing human figures apparently contain lists of personal names.

The lists of officers, &c., are fuller than those in Samuel, and here and there contain notices of value.

This volume records the births in the herds of members of the society, and gives the pedigrees of cows and bulls, besides furnishing lists of prizewinners at the principal shows and butter-test awards, and reports of sales by auction of Jersey cattle.

These are perhaps the fullest extant lists.

He was educated, exclusively by his father, who was a strict disciplinarian, and at the age of three was taught the Greek alphabet and long lists, of Greek words with their English equivalents.

Keeping the electoral machinery almost unchanged (save that the lists of notables were to be permanent) Bonaparte entirely altered the upper parts of the constitutional pyramid reared by the philosopher.

The accompanying letter press is in some places copious, and useful lists of the species of various genera are occasionally subjoined, adding to the definite value of the work, which, forming one volume, was completed in 1869.

Of a very different kind is the next we have to notice, the Prodromus systematis mammalium et avium of Illiger, published at Berlin in 1811, which must in its day have been a valuable little manual, and on many points it may now be consulted to advantage - the characters of the genera being admirably given, and good explanatory lists of the technical terms of ornithology furnished.

Moreover, we possess enumerations of towns in the geographical lists of the temple of Karnak and in a hieratic papyrus dating about 200 years after Tethmosis III.

Some of the same names and the same works can be identified in the lists of the Kitab-alFihrist.

Since their day many chemists have entered the lists, new and powerful methods of research have been devised, and several new elements definitely characterized.

After having been somewhat neglected for the greater attractions and wider field presented by organic chemistry, the study of the elements and their inorganic compounds is now' rapidly coming into favour; new investigators are continually entering the lists; the beaten paths are being retraversed and new ramifications pursued.

Since the time of Berzelius many experimenters have entered the lists, and introduced developments which we have not space to mention.

The United States Geographic Board acts upon rules practically identical with those indicated, and compiles official lists of place-names, the use of which is binding upon government departments, but which it would hardly be wise to follow universally in the case of names of places outside America.

The catacombs ' The most important of these lists are the two Itineraries belonging to the first half of the 7th century, in the Salzburg library.

De Rossi gives a comparative table of these Itineraries and other similar lists.

The official authorities provide lists of all the taxes to be collected to the tahsildars, who hand them, against formal receipt, to the kabz-i-mals.

Baghdadu was an ancient Babylonian city, dating back perhaps as far as 2000 B.C., the name occurring in lists in the library of Assur-bani-pal.

Eusebius and Jerome give us lists of the works which Clement left behind him.

Some of the inscriptions are contemporary dedications; but those which give us most information are long lists of cases, evidently compiled by the priests from the dedications in the sanctuary, or from tradition.

These lists contain 1740 entries.

In 1649 he accompanied the mission of Henry, count of Nassau, to Denmark, and in 1651 entered the lists of science as an assailant of the unsound system of quadratures adopted by Gregory of St Vincent.

Libri Poenitentiales began to appear - detailed lists of all possible sins, with the forfeit to be exacted from each.

The publication of the Mecanique celeste gained him world-wide celebrity, and his name appeared on the lists of the principal scientific associations of Europe, including the Royal Society.

General Botha stated that there were 83,000 burghers from 15 to 65 years of age on the commando lists.

Elias bar Shinaya, who in 1008 became Nestorian bishop of Nisibis, was the author of a valuable Chronicle, to which are prefixed numerous chronological tables, lists of popes, patriarchs, &c., and which covers by its narrative the period from A.D.

Apparently they were at first arranged in a series of anniversaries separate from that of the martyrs, as seems to be shown by the existence at Rome of the Depositio episcoporum side by side with the Depositio martyrum; the two lists seem to have been combined, as in the calendar of Carthage, which includes the dies nataliciorum martyrum et depositiones episcoporum.

The Babylonian temples received garments as payment in kind, and the Egyptian lists in the Papyrus Harris (Rameses III.) enumerate an enormous number of skirts, tunics and mantles, dyed and undyed, for the various deities.

The main value of the last is historical, but it too shows Dunbar's mastery of form, even when dealing with lists of poetic predecessors.

Among the latter many were married, and their wives and daughters appear also in the lists of professors.

A complete re-valuation of properties in the county of London is made every five years, valuation lists being prepared in duplicate by the borough councils acting as overseers of the parishes in their respective boroughs.

These lists when revised are sent to the clerk of the County Council, who publishes the totals.

The very much longer lists of German and French firms contain only a few types not represented in this table.