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Brewer's: Walking Sword

(A). A short, light sword, when long swords wielded by two hands were in use. (See Sir W. Scott's Abbot, chap. xx.) Source: Dictionary of…

50-kilometer Walk

50-kilometer Walk Find the Olympic gold-medal times for the men's 50km walking race from 1932 to the present. Year Time Record1932 Thomas Green, GBR 4:50:10 1936 Harold Whitlock,…

climbing perch

(Encyclopedia) climbing perch,&sp;climbing gourami, or walking fish, any of several fish of the family Anabantidae, adapted to living in oxygen-depleted water or on dry land. They are not related…

ape

(Encyclopedia) ape, any primate of the superfamily Hominoidea, which includes humans; this article, however, focuses on the nonhuman apes. The small apes, the gibbons and the siamang, and the…

Charles, river, United States

(Encyclopedia) Charles, river, c.60 mi (97 km) long, rising in E Mass. and flowing generally NE to Boston Bay; it separates Boston from Cambridge. Extensive development to the riverfront includes the…

stress test

(Encyclopedia) stress test or exercise electrocardiography, in medicine, a test that evaluates the performance of the heart by subjecting it to controlled amounts of physical stress. Such tests,…

Christina Rossetti: A Farm Walk

A Farm WalkThe year stood at its equinox And bluff the North was blowing, A bleat of lambs came from the flocks, Green hardy things were growing; I met a maid with shining locks Where…

A Boy's Will: A Late Walk

by Robert Frost Love and a QuestionStarsA Late Walk He courts the autumnal mood. WHEN I go up through the mowing field, The headless aftermath, Smooth-laid like thatch with the heavy…

Sentence Agreement: Walk This Way

Walk This WaySentence AgreementIntroductionCollective NounsIndefinite PronounsWalk This WayAgree to Disagree Now you know the main rules of agreement, so the rest of this business must be a piece…

Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Walk

The WalkA Queen rejoices in her peers, And wary Nature knows her own By court and city, dale and down, And like a lover volunteers, And to her son will treasures more And more to purpose…