minute mile

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• minute

  mĭnūtē, adv., v. minuo, P. a. fin. ...

  A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

• minute

  minūtē adv.with comp.minutus, pettily, in a paltry manner : grandia dicere: res minutius tractare....

  An Elementary Latin Dictionary

• Minute

  ·noun A coin; a half farthing. II. Minute ·noun A point of time; a moment. III. Minute ·noun A nau...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• mile

  mile, mīlēsĭmus, etc., v. mille, millesimus, etc. ...

  A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

• Mile

  ·noun A certain measure of distance, being equivalent in England and the United States to 320 poles ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Mile

  (from Lat. mille, "a thousand;" Matt. 5:41), a Roman measure of 1,000 paces of 5 feet each. Thus the...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• mile

  Often in the singular with a ntlnleral, instead of the plural miles. Mr. Hartshorne, in his Glossary...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• mile

  The statute mile is 5280 feet; but that used at sea, termed the mean nautic mile, consists of 6075·6...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Mile

  a Roman measure of length, equal to 1618 English yards-4854 feet, or about nine-tenths of an English...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Minute-jack

  ·noun A timeserver; an inconstant person. II. Minute-jack ·noun A figure which strikes the hour on ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• minute-guns

  Fired at intervals of a minute each during the progress of important funerals. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Car mile

  ·add. ·- A mile traveled by a single car, taken as a unit of computation, as in computing the averag...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Passenger mile

  ·add. ·- A unit of measurement of the passenger transportation performed by a railroad during a give...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Sea mile

  ·- A geographical mile. ·see <<Mile>>. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Three-mile

  ·add. ·adj Of or pertaining to three miles; as, the three-mile limit, or the limit of the marine bel...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Ton mile

  ·add. ·- A unit of measurement of the freight transportation performed by a railroad during a given ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Traffic mile

  ·add. ·- Any unit of the total obtained by adding the passenger miles and ton miles in a railroad's ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• welch mile

  Like a Welch mile, long and narrow. His story is like a Welch mile, long and tedious. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• nautical mile

  (MEAN) = 6075·6 feet. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• minute and half-minute glasses

  See glass. ...

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• half-minute glass

  See glass. ...

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