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Buskin :: Buskin (n.) A strong, protecting covering for the foot, coming some distance up the leg..

Condenser :: Condenser (n.) A lens or mirror, usually of short focal distance, used to concentrate light upon an object..

Farseeing :: Farseeing (a.) Able to see to a great distance; farsighted.

Latitude :: Latitude (n.) Extent from side to side, or distance sidewise from a given point or line; breadth; width..

Distance :: Distance (v. t.) To cause to appear as if at a distance; to make seem remote.

Offing :: Offing (n.) That part of the sea at a good distance from the shore, or where there is deep water and no need of a pilot; also, distance from the shore; as, the ship had ten miles offing; we saw a ship in the offing..

Telodynamic :: Telodynamic (a.) Relating to a system for transmitting power to a distance by means of swiftly moving ropes or cables driving grooved pulleys of large diameter.

Odometrous :: Odometrous (a.) Serving to measure distance on a road.

Cast :: Cast (n.) The distance to which a thing is or can be thrown.

Tetrapody :: Tetrapody (n.) A set of four feet; a measure or distance of four feet.

Telephony :: Telephony (n.) The art or process of reproducing sounds at a distance, as with the telephone..

Beyond :: Beyond (adv.) Further away; at a distance; yonder.

Eccentricity :: Eccentricity (n.) The ratio of the distance of the center of the orbit of a heavenly body from the center of the body round which it revolves to the semi-transverse axis of the orbit.

Grade :: Grade (n.) The rate of ascent or descent; gradient; deviation from a level surface to an inclined plane; -- usually stated as so many feet per mile, or as one foot rise or fall in so many of horizontal distance; as, a heavy grade; a grade of twenty feet per mile, or of 1 in 264..

Quadrature :: Quadrature (a.) The position of one heavenly body in respect to another when distant from it 90¡, or a quarter of a circle, as the moon when at an equal distance from the points of conjunction and opposition..

Astronomy :: Astronomy (n.) The science which treats of the celestial bodies, of their magnitudes, motions, distances, periods of revolution, eclipses, constitution, physical condition, and of the causes of their various phenomena..

Stadia :: Stadimeter (n.) A horizontal graduated bar mounted on a staff, used as a stadium, or telemeter, for measuring distances..

Afar :: Afar (adv.) At, to, or from a great distance; far away; -- often used with from preceding, or off following; as, he was seen from afar; I saw him afar off..

Aloof :: Aloof (adv.) At or from a distance, but within view, or at a small distance; apart; away..

Mercury :: Mercury (n.) One of the planets of the solar system, being the one nearest the sun, from which its mean distance is about 36,000,000 miles. Its period is 88 days, and its diameter 3,000 miles..

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