Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Plural of
cuneus .
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Examples
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Cetus omnes angelici patriarcharum cunei ac prophetarum merita nobis precentor veniam.
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Cetus omnes angelici patriarcharum cunei ac prophetarum merita nobis precentor veniam.
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The arrangement of the seats was the same as in theatres; they were divided horizontally by præcinctiones, and vertically into cunei by staircases.
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Different tribes had particular cunei allotted to them.
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The sections (cunei) for spectators in the theatre should be so divided, that the angles of the triangles which run about the circumference of the circle may give the direction for the flights of steps between the sections, as far as up to the first curved cross-aisle.
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Accessory slips of origin from the talus and navicular, or from the external cunei-form and third metatarsal bones to the second slip of the muscle, and one from the cuboid to the third slip have been observed.
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She could hardly have been more dismayed if one of Caesar's cunei, or wedges of soldiers, had made a charge against her.
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Constantinople refers to another of the actors in the campaign against the cities of the cunei-plain.
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She could hardly have been more dismayed if one of Caesar's _cunei_, or wedges of soldiers, had made a charge against her.
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Each tier was divided into sections by curved passages and low walls, and were subdivided into cunei, or wedges, by the steps and aisles from the vomitoria.
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