Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The typical genus of polyzoans of the family Escharidæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A genus of Bryozoa which produce delicate corals, often incrusting like lichens, but sometimes branched.
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Let a base, termed in Greek [Greek: eschara], be constructed, with each of its sides twenty-one feet long, and with four crosspieces.
The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio
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[Greek: eschara], has the length of ... holes, and the anti-base of four holes; each is one hole in thickness and breadth.
The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio
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The altar of the ancestors is eschara, of the gods Bomos; the offering of sacrifice to the ancestors is enagizein or entemnein to the gods thyein; the libations to the ancestors choai, to the gods spondai.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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