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Brook :: Brook (v. t.) A natural stream of water smaller than a river or creek.

Sigmoidal :: Sigmoidal (a.) Curved in two directions, like the letter S, or the Greek /..

Octapla :: Octapla (sing.) A portion of the Old Testament prepared by Origen in the 3d century, containing the Hebrew text and seven Greek versions of it, arranged in eight parallel columns..

Ditone :: Ditone (n.) The Greek major third, which comprehend two major tones (the modern major third contains one major and one minor whole tone)..

Gnostic :: Gnostic (n.) One of the so-called philosophers in the first ages of Christianity, who claimed a true philosophical interpretation of the Christian religion. Their system combined Oriental theology and Greek philosophy with the doctrines of Christianity. They held that all natures, intelligible, intellectual, and material, are derived from the Deity by successive emanations, which they called Eons..

Hellenize :: Hellenize (v. t.) To give a Greek form or character to; to Grecize; as, to Hellenize a word..

Galley :: Galley (n.) A name given by analogy to the Greek, Roman, and other ancient vessels propelled by oars..

Showbread :: Showbread (n.) Bread of exhibition; loaves to set before God; -- the term used in translating the various phrases used in the Hebrew and Greek to designate the loaves of bread which the priest of the week placed before the Lord on the golden table in the sanctuary. They were made of fine flour unleavened, and were changed every Sabbath. The loaves, twelve in number, represented the twelve tribes of Israel. They were to be eaten by the priests only, and in the Holy Place..

Reek :: Reek (n.) A rick.

Epi- :: Epi- () A prefix, meaning upon, beside, among, on the outside, above, over. It becomes ep-before a vowel, as in epoch, and eph-before a Greek aspirate, as in ephemeral..

Hellene :: Hellene (n.) A native of either ancient or modern Greece; a Greek.

Grego :: Grego (n.) A short jacket or cloak, made of very thick, coarse cloth, with a hood attached, worn by the Greeks and others in the Levant..

Grecism :: Grecism (n.) An idiom of the Greek language; a Hellenism.

Sarcophagus :: Sarcophagus (n.) A species of limestone used among the Greeks for making coffins, which was so called because it consumed within a few weeks the flesh of bodies deposited in it. It is otherwise called lapis Assius, or Assian stone, and is said to have been found at Assos, a city of Lycia..

Philhellene :: Philhellene (n.) A friend of Greece, or of the Greeks; a philhellenist..

Drachma :: Drachma (n.) A silver coin among the ancient Greeks, having a different value in different States and at different periods. The average value of the Attic drachma is computed to have been about 19 cents..

Amphi- :: Amphi- () A prefix in words of Greek origin, signifying both, of both kinds, on both sides, about, around..

Media :: Media (n.) One of the sonant mutes /, /, / (b, d, g), in Greek, or of their equivalents in other languages, so named as intermediate between the tenues, /, /, / (p, t, k), and the aspiratae (aspirates) /, /, / (ph or f, th, ch). Also called middle mute, or medial, and sometimes soft mute..

Natchez :: Natchez (n. pl.) A tribe of Indians who formerly lived near the site of the city of Natchez, Mississippi. In 1729 they were subdued by the French; the survivors joined the Creek Confederacy..

K :: K () the eleventh letter of the English alphabet, is nonvocal consonant. The form and sound of the letter K are from the Latin, which used the letter but little except in the early period of the language. It came into the Latin from the Greek, which received it from a Phoenician source, the ultimate origin probably being Egyptian. Etymologically K is most nearly related to c, g, h (which see)..

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