Carpyng , sb. talking, P. Carre , sb. car, cart, Prompt.; charre , MD; chare , Voc., S3, W; schare , carpentum , Voc.; char , S2, S3, C, C2; chaar , MD; charis , pl. , W, W2, H.—OF.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew
Comaundour , sb. commander, C3, PP; comandour , S2.—OF. commandeor ; Late Lat. commendatorem .
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew
Related Words : Alto precio ; recargado , heavily charged ( too high a price ), surcharged ; exorbitante ; subido ; comprar con pérdida , comprar con daño , to buy at a loss ; no valer lo que cuesta , to be worth less than the cost ; estar ( el precio ) por las nubes , a soaring price (literally, in the clouds ); costar un dineral , to cost a fortune ; costar un ojo de la cara , to be impossibly high-priced .
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson
SYN: Core, central part, center, kernel, [See CORE].
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows
ITALIAN SALAD Six cold, cooked potatoes, cut in dice, six flaked sardines, three small cucumber pickles, chopped, and a stalk of celery cut fine.
— from The Myrtle Reed Cook Book by Myrtle Reed
A bald high forehead and rugged jutting brows above a small flat nose turned up at the end, as in the portraits of Socrates and Rabelais; deep lines about the mocking mouth; a short chin, carried proudly, covered with a grizzled pointed beard; sea-green eyes that age might seem to have dimmed were it not for the contrast between the iris and the surrounding mother-of-pearl tints, so that it seemed as if under the stress of anger or enthusiasm there would be a magnetic power to quell or kindle in their glances.
— from The Unknown Masterpiece 1845 by Honoré de Balzac
Each tube is lined with columnar epithelial cells, and there is a minute central passage with the "neck" at N. Here and there are seen other special cells called parietal cells, P, which are supposed to produce the acid of the gastric juice.
— from A Practical Physiology: A Text-Book for Higher Schools by Albert F. (Albert Franklin) Blaisdell
[9] ILLUSTRATIONS PLATES Page 1. a , Cave on Big Piney River, Pulaski County, Mo. b , Cave on Big Piney River, Texas County, Mo. 12 2. a , Bluff at Mouth of Spring Creek, Pulaski County, Mo. b , Pillman's, or Spring Creek, Cave, Pulaski County, Mo. 12 3.
— from Archeological Investigations Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 76 by Gerard Fowke
Cape Verde Cape Verdean escudo (CVE) Cayman Islands Caymanian dollar (KYD) Central African Republic Communaute Financiere Africaine franc (XAF); note - responsible authority is the Bank of the Central African States Chad Communaute Financiere Africaine franc (XAF); note - responsible authority is the Bank of the Central African States Chile Chilean peso (CLP) China yuan (CNY); note - also referred to as the Renminbi (RMB) Christmas Island Australian dollar (AUD) Cocos (Keeling) Islands Australian dollar (AUD)
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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