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Furlong :: Furlong (a.) A measure of length; the eighth part of a mile; forty rods; two hundred and twenty yards.

Krishna :: Krishna (n.) The most popular of the Hindoo divinities, usually held to be the eighth incarnation of the god Vishnu..

Dram :: Dram (n.) A weight; in Apothecaries' weight, one eighth part of an ounce, or sixty grains; in Avoirdupois weight, one sixteenth part of an ounce, or 27.34375 grains..

Group :: Group (n.) A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; -- sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes..

Octave :: Octave (n.) A small cask of wine, the eighth part of a pipe..

Endorse :: Endorse (n.) A subordinary, resembling the pale, but of one fourth its width (according to some writers, one eighth)..

Octic :: Octic (a.) Of the eighth degree or order.

Quart :: Quart (n.) A measure of capacity, both in dry and in liquid measure; the fourth part of a gallon; the eighth part of a peck; two pints..

H :: H () the eighth letter of the English alphabet, is classed among the consonants, and is formed with the mouth organs in the same position as that of the succeeding vowel. It is used with certain consonants to form digraphs representing sounds which are not found in the alphabet, as sh, th, /, as in shall, thing, /ine (for zh see /274); also, to modify the sounds of some other letters, as when placed after c and p, with the former of which it represents a compound sound like that of tsh, as in ch

Consonancy :: Consonancy (n.) Accord or agreement of sounds produced simultaneously, as a note with its third, fifth, and eighth..

Span :: Span (v. t.) The space from the thumb to the end of the little finger when extended; nine inches; eighth of a fathom.

Eighth :: Eighth (a.) Next in order after the seventh.

Levy :: Levy (n.) A name formerly given in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia to the Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar (or 12/ cents), valued at eleven pence when the dollar was rated at 7s. 6d..

Value :: Value (n.) The relative length or duration of a tone or note, answering to quantity in prosody; thus, a quarter note [/] has the value of two eighth notes [/]..

Masora :: Masora (n.) A Jewish critical work on the text of the Hebrew Scriptures, composed by several learned rabbis of the school of Tiberias, in the eighth and ninth centuries..

August :: August (a.) The eighth month of the year, containing thirty-one days..

Utas :: Utas (n.) The eighth day after any term or feast; the octave; as, the utas of St. Michael..

Rondel :: Rondel (n.) Specifically, a particular form of rondeau containing fourteen lines in two rhymes, the refrain being a repetition of the first and second lines as the seventh and eighth, and again as the thirteenth and fourteenth..

Octant :: Octant (n.) The eighth part of a circle; an arc of 45 degrees.

Scorpio :: Scorpio (n.) The eighth sign of the zodiac, which the sun enters about the twenty-third day of October, marked thus [/] in almanacs..

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