 | Theodore Lindquist - Mathematics - 1920 - 260 pages
...of the quantity of coal in a bin. EXERCISES 1. Which of the following are denominate numbers : 3.4 ? 7lb. ? 5yd.? 6 marbles? 473? $45? 67 books ? f T....passuum, a thousand paces. In old Rome the inch meant rV of a foot ; in France and the Scandinavian countries it meant the length of the first thumb joint;... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1923 - 976 pages
...sent to market a tomato which measured about three times the size of my fist, which, as I can stretch from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the little finger 1o inches, is not a small one. The grapes were not ripe ; he aimed at having ripe fruit only when there... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1924 - 774 pages
...Wottonianae (see note to No. 72), as having been found among Wotton's papers, 2. span : properly the distance from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the little finger at their widest stretch, taken arithmetically to be nine inches ; it is often used vaguely for a short... | |
 | Bernard Orchard - Bible - 1953 - 1340 pages
...the human body. They are the finger-breadth, the palm or hand-breadth, the span or open-hand breadth, from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the little finger, and the cubit or forearm, from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger. The cubit is that of a (full-grown)... | |
 | S. D. Goitein - History - 1967 - 524 pages
...b. Musa alMahdawl writing to Frhy' (Perahya) b. Joseph. Span, shibr, the length of the extended hand from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the little finger. 92Siglaton: ENA 2747, f. 29, l. ll; ENA 4020, f. 3, ll. 3-4. With Dabiqi: TS l2.l2, I. l8. Two pairs... | |
 | English periodicals - 1923 - 1004 pages
...sent to market a tomato which measured about three times the size of my fist, which, as I can stretch from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the little finger 10 inches, is not a small one. The grapes were not ripe ; he aimed at having ripe fruit only when there... | |
 | Ann Elizabeth Mayer - Law - 1985 - 294 pages
...uniform manner. Each duct leading from these is two empans, or two spans wide, a span being the distance from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the little finger when the hand is fully extended, usually about nine inches, and a fitr deep, a fitr being the space between the end... | |
 | Henry Fielding - Fiction - 1987 - 568 pages
...them; a woman here may hide a moderate gallant under them.' 1 Approximately 18 inches, the distance from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the little finger of an extended palm being conventionally measured at 9 inches. ' The predominating iSth-century spelling... | |
 | Father Bernabe Cobo, Roland Hamilton - Social Science - 1990 - 308 pages
...sandal. The form used elsewhere by Cobo is ojota. 6. The palmo or span equals the length of the hand from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the little finger, roughly eight inches. The vara or Spanish yard equals four palmos or about thirty-three inches. These... | |
 | Randy Roberts, James S. Olson - History - 1991 - 276 pages
...unprecedented talent, a fluidly coordinated body 6 feet 7 inches tall, and a hand eleven inches wide from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the little finger. By the time he attended Boys High in New York, he could beat recognized NBA players in one-on-one games... | |
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Each duct leading from these is two empans, or two spans wide, a span being the distance from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the little finger... 
