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now|el — or now|ell «noh EHL, NOH ehl», noun. Archaic. noël. ╂[< Old French nouel, variant of noël. See etym. of doublets Noël (Cf. ↑Noël), natal. (Cf. ↑natal)] … Useful english dictionary
ell — beth·ell; chick·ell; cot·er·ell; dratch·ell; ell·wand; fem·er·ell; how·ell; low·ell; mitch·ell; pow·ell·ite; twitch·ell; whew·ell·ite; ell; futch·ell; nev·ell; now·ell; … English syllables
now — len·now; luck·now; mal·i·now·skite; min·now; now; now·a·nights; now·ness; now·ther; ro·ma·now·sky; win·now·er; now·a·days; now·el; win·now; now·ell; … English syllables
Ell — Ell, n. [AS. eln; akin to D. el, elle, G. elle, OHG. elina, Icel. alin, Dan. alen, Sw. aln, Goth. alenia, L. ulna elbow, ell, Gr. ? elbow. Cf. {Elbow}, {Alnage}.] A measure for cloth; now rarely used. It is of different lengths in different… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Ell — An ell (from Proto Indo European *el elbow, forearm ), is a unit of measurement, approximating the distance from the elbow to the wrist.Several different national forms existed, with different lengths, including the Scottish ell (approximately 37 … Wikipedia
ell — a traditional unit of length used primarily for measuring cloth. In the English system, one ell equals 20 nails, 45 inches, or 1.25 yards (exactly 1.143 meters). The word comes from the Latin ulna, which originally meant the elbow and is now… … Dictionary of units of measurement
nowell — now·ell … English syllables
elbow — [OE] Logically enough, elbow means etymologically ‘arm bend’. It comes from a prehistoric West and North Germanīc *alinobogan (which also produced German ellenbogen, Dutch elleboog, and Danish albue). This was a compound formed from *alinā… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
Curvilinear coordinates — Curvilinear, affine, and Cartesian coordinates in two dimensional space Curvilinear coordinates are a coordinate system for Euclidean space in which the coordinate lines may be curved. These coordinates may be derived from a set of Cartesian… … Wikipedia
Great Famine (Ireland) — The Great Famine ( ga. An Gorta Mór [The term has appeared in the titles of numerous books on the event, as demonstrated by [http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=%22Gorta+Mo%CC%81r%22 =Search qt=results page this search on WorldCat] ] or ga. An… … Wikipedia
