 | Stuart Victor Semour Craigie Messum - Hydrographic surveying - 1910 - 572 pages
...and about 100° apart (the length of an average span of the hand with fingers extended from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the little finger, when the hand is hold at arm's length, subtends at the eye an angle of about 20°). Make the contact between the stars,... | |
 | Theodore Lindquist - Mathematics - 1920 - 256 pages
...grains or parts of the body. Among the units are foot; hand; finger breadth; span, which is from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the little finger when the hand is outstretched; yard, or ell, which is the old English name for arm; the pace, the average length of... | |
 | Theodore Lindquist - Mathematics - 1920 - 260 pages
...grains or parts of the body. Among the units are foot; hand; finger breadth; span, which is from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the little finger when the hand is outstretched; yard, or ell, which is the old English name for arm; the pace, the average length of... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1924 - 774 pages
...of Keats, 1854 ; it is not in that of 1848. 4. span : ' grasp ' ; properly the distance from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the little finger when the hand is spread out ; as a measure it is nine inches. 7. ruminate : ' ponder on.' by such dreaming nigh His... | |
 | Ann Elizabeth Mayer - Law - 1985 - 294 pages
...Each duct leading from these is two empans, or two spans wide, a span being the distance from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the little finger when the hand is fully extended, usually about nine inches, and a fitr deep, a fitr being the space between the end... | |
 | MOZINO JOSE MARIANO - History - 2011 - 230 pages
...arrows; the shaft of the lance is almost five yards long, and the barb more than one geme (the longest distance from the end of the thumb to the tip of the forefinger) ; the former is of pine or cedar, and the latter of copper, shell, or iron. Their bows... | |
 | Steven Schwartzman - Mathematics - 1994 - 276 pages
...English usage, a span was a unit of length roughly equal to nine inches; it was the distance from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the little finger when the hand was spread wide. [206] species, both singular and plural (noun): a Latin word meaning "outward appearance,... | |
 | Foreign Language Study - 1999 - 950 pages
...shab-deg, sf A dish composed of meat and turnips dressed all night on the are. А. -лД ahibr, в. m. A span, a palm, the distance from the end of the thumb to the tip of the tittle finger when the hand is expanded. P. (żżJjbiu shab-гапд, adj. Dusky or dark-coloured (a... | |
 | Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 164 pages
...English span. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a span is "the distance taken from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the little finger . . . when the hand is extended," or about nine inches. 43. Most likely one of the several rivers that empty into the Apalachee... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - England - 2003 - 472 pages
...shadder shadow sheenen shining sid saw (verbal) spak speak spaken speaking span distance from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the little finger when the hand is fully extended spetten spitting stimmilents stimulants swaller swallow (verb) tap roots main roots... | |
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Each duct leading from these is two empans, or two spans wide, a span being the distance from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the little finger when the hand... 
