Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An ancient Egyptian measure of length (in Egyptian called
atur ), originally (according to St. Jerome) the distance which a relay of men attached to a rope would drag a boat up the Nile.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Antiq.) An Egyptian or Persian measure of length, varying from thirty-two to sixty stadia.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun historical An
Egyptian orPersian measure oflength , varying from thirty-two to sixtystadia .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Bill Clinton is still on the schene and lied to congress.
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I am reminded of that Woody Allen schene where the sperm discover at the last minute that masterbation was involved.
Discovered: the basis of human civilization. Ann Althouse 2005
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+I+ch iseh þ̵ schene ⁊ þ̵ brihte fer ` r´eden of þe eadi meidnes ilikest towart engles. ant feolohlukest wið ham blissin ⁊ gleadien. þe libbinde iflesche ou {er} gað {270} flesches lahe ant ou {er} cumeð cunde þe leadeð heouenlich lif in eorðe as ha wunieð hare murhðe. ⁊ hare blisse. þe feierl ` e´ac of hare wlite. þe swetnesse of hare song {;} ne mei na tunge tellen.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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And in the evening the savages suspended a band of seawan, and some other stringed seawan that the chief had brought with him from the French savages as a sign of peace and that the French savages were to come in confidence to them, and he sang: "Ho schene jo ho ho schene I atsiehoewe atsihoewe," after which all the savages shouted three times:
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And then, that everything should be firmly binding, they called or sang: "Ha assironi atsimach koo kent oya kayuig wee Onneyatte Onaondaga Koyocke hoo hanoto wany agweganne hoo schene ha caton scahten franosoni yndicho."
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It is blowing hard to-day, with a dull grey sky, and skits of rain; so I see no prospect of "vah-rying the schene!" as there are no carriages but open ones.
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So, these illuminatis can try all they want with their little social engineering schene, but you can't change the laws of nature.
henrymakow.com 2009
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ACC has already been partly privatised under Labour by way of the 'accredited employers' schene that allows larger companies to switch to private providors of accident cover.
frogblog 2009
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Just Like Heaven: Tribute to the Cure: Just Like Heaven: Tribute to the Cure yo christian schene ..... wayne really does play the guitar bubs ... and im gonna have to back
Prefix 2008
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Just Like Heaven: Tribute to the Cure: Just Like Heaven: Tribute to the Cure yo christian schene ..... wayne really does play the guitar bubs ... and im gonna have to back
Prefix 2008
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