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All Words Glossary
proper noun
- (personification) The wind from the east.
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1847: Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Princess
- : and I sat down and wrote, In such a hand as when a field of corn Bows all its ears before the roaring
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1859: Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
- : uneasy rushes of wind went through the hall ... , West, North, and South, through the woods, four heavy-treading, unkempt figures crushed the high grass and cracked the branches
noun
- An imaginary great circle around the earth, equidistant from the two poles, and dividing earth's surface into the northern and southern hemisphere.
- A similar great circle on any sphere, especially on a celestial body, or on other reasonably symmetrical three-dimensional body.
- A short form of the celestial equator.
adjective
- of, near, or relating to the equator
- That plant is best suited to climates.
noun ( estuaries)
- Coastal water body where ocean tides and river water merge.
- An ocean inlet also fed by fresh river water.
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