Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Plural of
pollex .
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Examples
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Sexdecem pollices transuersi faciunt vnum geometricum pedem.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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[563] {476} "Fiet potentium in aquis Adriaticis congregatio, cæco præduce, Hircum ambigent, Byzantium prophanabunt, ædificia denigrabunt, spolia dispergentur; Hircus novus balabit, usque dum liv. pedes, & ix. pollices, & semis, præmensurati discurrant."
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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Pinnae opposi - tae pedales et parum longiores j duos pollices lataej, oblongae acuminatae pinnatifidae.
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Folia lanceolata acuta 4 tindas ad femiunciam lata 9 quatuor vel octo pollices longa canaliculata vagijiantia.
Caroli a Linné species plantarum; exhibentes plantas rite cognitas ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas Willdenow, Karl Ludwig, 1765-1812. ed 1797
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Habet autem predicta crux in altitudine sua xxvj pollices mensurabiles.
Archaeologia, or, Miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity [microform] 1770
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