Definition of height

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Height (n.) That which is elevated; an eminence; a hill or mountain; as, Alpine heights..

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Water Gauge :: Water gauge () An instrument for measuring or ascertaining the depth or quantity of water, or for indicating the height of its surface, as in the boiler of a steam engine. See Gauge..
Height :: Height (n.) The condition of being high; elevated position.
Sublimation :: Sublimation (n.) The act of heightening or improving; exaltation; elevation; purification.
Capybara :: Capybara (n.) A large South American rodent (Hydrochaerus capybara) Living on the margins of lakes and rivers. It is the largest extant rodent, being about three feet long, and half that in height. It somewhat resembles the Guinea pig, to which it is related; -- called also cabiai and water hog..
Eucalyptus :: Eucalyptus (n.) A myrtaceous genus of trees, mostly Australian. Many of them grow to an immense height, one or two species exceeding the height even of the California Sequoia..
Statured :: Stature (n.) The natural height of an animal body; -- generally used of the human body.
Neaped :: Neaped (a.) Left aground on the height of a spring tide, so that it will not float till the next spring tide; -- called also beneaped..
Precipitate :: Precipitate (v. t.) To throw headlong; to cast down from a precipice or height.
Swell :: Swell (n.) Increase in height; elevation; rise.
Cirque :: Cirque (n.) A kind of circular valley in the side of a mountain, walled around by precipices of great height..
Head :: Head (n.) Culminating point or crisis; hence, strength; force; height..
Breastrail :: Breastrail (n.) The upper rail of any parapet of ordinary height, as of a balcony; the railing of a quarter-deck, etc..
Heightener :: Heightener (n.) One who, or that which, heightens..
Anthropometry :: Anthropometry (n.) Measurement of the height and other dimensions of human beings, especially at different ages, or in different races, occupations, etc..
Heightened :: Heightened (imp. & p. p.) of Heighte.
Altitude :: Altitude (n.) Space extended upward; height; the perpendicular elevation of an object above its foundation, above the ground, or above a given level, or of one object above another; as, the altitude of a mountain, or of a bird above the top of a tree..
Animate :: Animate (v. t.) To give powers to, or to heighten the powers or effect of; as, to animate a lyre..
Altimetry :: Altimetry (n.) The art of measuring altitudes, or heights..
Ormolu :: Ormolu (n.) A variety of brass made to resemble gold by the use of less zinc and more copper in its composition than ordinary brass contains. Its golden color is often heightened by means of lacquer of some sort, or by use of acids. Called also mosaic gold..
Horizon :: Horizon (n.) The chief horizontal line in a picture of any sort, which determines in the picture the height of the eye of the spectator; in an extended landscape, the representation of the natural horizon corresponds with this line..
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