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noun

1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites. Synonyms: sec, second.

An abundant tasteless odorless multivalent nonmetallic element; best known in yellow crystals; occurs in many sulphide and sulphate minerals and even in native form (especially in volcanic regions). Synonyms: atomic number 16, sulfur, sulphur.

The cardinal compass point that is at 180 degrees. Synonyms: due south, south, southward.

A unit of conductance equal to the reciprocal of an ohm. Synonyms: mho, reciprocal ohm, siemens.

The 19th letter of the Roman alphabet.

(thermodynamics) a thermodynamic quantity representing the amount of energy in a system that is no longer available for doing mechanical work. Synonyms: entropy, randomness.

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... my business undertakings I am, Mrs Greenow. There isn't a shilling due on my land to e'er a bank in Norwich; and I haven't thrashed out a quarter of last year's corn yet, which is more than many of them can say. But there ain't many of them who don't have to pay rent, and so perhaps ...

— Can You Forgive Her? • Anthony Trollope

... birds from such an extraordinary nest; but before they had extricated themselves from the branches his face had assumed the stolid, cow-like, unintelligent look which had so often baffled judges and Crown Prosecutors. He was bland and child-like as Bret Harte's Chinee. ...

— An Outback Marriage • Andrew Barton Paterson

... my departure from Filipinas I was at an estate belonging to religious, where there are various individuals who enjoy an annual salary sufficient to support themselves, on condition that they guard the estate against robbers, and that they work whenever necessary, in which case their day's wage is paid them. The question was raised of transferring the rice in the husk from one granary to another, distant about 20 paces, and they were not to work more than the hours usual in that country, which are very few, for which they were to be given ...

— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55 • Francisco Colin

... sold me these, madame," he went on, as he picked up a priest's chasuble, now doing duty as a table covering "would sell their fathers and their mothers. It is all a question ...

— In and Out of Three Normady Inns • Anna Bowman Dodd

... was, perhaps, the only woman in the world so strangely organised,—the only one, perhaps, capable of not feeling happy and proud at belonging to a man superior to the rest of humanity; and fatally was it decreed that this woman alone of her species should be Lord Byron's wife!' ...

— Lady Byron Vindicated • Harriet Beecher Stowe

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