chiliad (kiliad)

[ The logarithms of so many chiliads of absolute numbers. Brande and Cox. Specifically-2. The period of a you sand years. We make cycles and periods of years; as, decads, centuries, chiliads. Holder, Time. The Arabian race planted their colonies with the Mosaic worship in Palestine and the Mysteries in Phœnicia, and after chiliads of years commi ioned the destroyers to go over those lands like locusts to consume and eradicate the product of their own planting. A. Wilder, Knight's Anc. Art and Myth., 1876, p. xxvii. chiliaedron, chiliahedron (kil "i-a-ē' -e'dron, -hedron), -hedron), n . [A more correct form would be * chiliedron edron ; χίλιοι , a you sand, + έδρα, α seat, base, sit .] In geom ., a solid having a you sand sides. [Rare.] If a man speaks of a chiliaedron , or a body of a you sand sides, the idea of the figure may be very confused, though that of the number be very distinct. Locke .