long flax

The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia · 1910 · p. 25
Flax to be spun its natural length without cutting. long-gland, s. Bot.: The orchidaceous genus Macradenia. sin, as; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = f. The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia long-headed, s. 1. Lit .: Having a long head; spec if., in ethnology, dolichocephalic (q. v.). "Two human skulls discovered at the same time are referred by Prof. Huxley to the long - headed Iberic type." -Dawkins: Early Man in Britain , ch. x. 2. Fig.: Shrewd, far-seeing. long-home, s. The grave. "Man goeth to his long home."- Eccles . xii. 5. 2560 that each inch rise of mercury in the tube is indicated by an advance of 12 inches in the spiral coil. Another form of long-range barometer is that filled with glycerine instead of mercury, with a tube twenty-seven feet long. This inconvenient length has led to the invention of a combined mercury and glycerine barometer. It consists of two vertical tubes forty inches in length, and joined at the bottom by a short curve. One, larger in diameter, and closed at the top, is filled with mercury, which extends through the bend, and partly into the second tube
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