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Bore :: Bore (n.) A tidal flood which regularly or occasionally rushes into certain rivers of peculiar configuration or location, in one or more waves which present a very abrupt front of considerable height, dangerous to shipping, as at the mouth of the Amazon, in South America, the Hoogly and Indus, in India, and the Tsien-tang, in China..

Hypsometry :: Hypsometry (n.) That branch of the science of geodesy which has to do with the measurement of heights, either absolutely with reference to the sea level, or relatively..

Altimetry :: Altimetry (n.) The art of measuring altitudes, or heights..

Zenith :: Zenith (n.) hence, figuratively, the point of culmination; the greatest height; the height of success or prosperity..

Agave :: Agave (n.) A genus of plants (order Amaryllidaceae) of which the chief species is the maguey or century plant (A. Americana), wrongly called Aloe. It is from ten to seventy years, according to climate, in attaining maturity, when it produces a gigantic flower stem, sometimes forty feet in height, and perishes. The fermented juice is the pulque of the Mexicans; distilled, it yields mescal. A strong thread and a tough paper are made from the leaves, and the wood has many uses..

Tall :: Tall (superl.) High in stature; having a considerable, or an unusual, extension upward; long and comparatively slender; having the diameter or lateral extent small in proportion to the height; as, a tall person, tree, or mast..

Sublimation :: Sublimation (n.) The act of heightening or improving; exaltation; elevation; purification.

Height :: Height (n.) The distance to which anything rises above its foot, above that on which in stands, above the earth, or above the level of the sea; altitude; the measure upward from a surface, as the floor or the ground, of animal, especially of a man; stature..

Base :: Base (a.) Of little, or less than the usual, height; of low growth; as, base shrubs..

Disproportion :: Disproportion (n.) Want of proportion in form or quantity; lack of symmetry; as, the arm may be in disproportion to the body; the disproportion of the length of a building to its height..

Aheight :: Aheight (adv.) Aloft; on high.

Cocoa Palm :: Cocoa palm () A palm tree producing the cocoanut (Cocos nucifera). It grows in nearly all tropical countries, attaining a height of sixty or eighty feet. The trunk is without branches, and has a tuft of leaves at the top, each being fifteen or twenty feet in length, and at the base of these the nuts hang in clusters; the cocoanut tree..

Dimension :: Dimension (n.) Measure in a single line, as length, breadth, height, thickness, or circumference; extension; measurement; -- usually, in the plural, measure in length and breadth, or in length, breadth, and thickness; extent; size; as, the dimensions of a room, or of a ship; the dimensions of a farm, of a kingdom..

Swoop :: Swoop (v. i.) To descend with closed wings from a height upon prey, as a hawk; to swoop..

Hoist :: Hoist (n.) The perpendicular height of a flag, as opposed to the fly, or horizontal length when flying from a staff..

Relief :: Relief (n.) The height to which works are raised above the bottom of the ditch.

Dovecote :: Dovecote (n.) A small house or box, raised to a considerable height above the ground, and having compartments, in which domestic pigeons breed; a dove house..

Commode :: Commode (n.) A kind of headdress formerly worn by ladies, raising the hair and fore part of the cap to a great height..

Towering :: Towering (a.) Very high; elevated; rising aloft; as, a towering height..

Altitudinal :: Altitudinal (a.) Of or pertaining to height; as, altitudinal measurements..

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