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  • 71Port-Glasgow —    PORT GLASGOW, a parish, sea port, burgh, and market town, in the Lower ward of the county of Renfrew; containing 7007 inhabitants, of whom 6973 are in the town, 19 miles (W. N. W.) from Glasgow, and 62 (W.) from Edinburgh. This place was… …

    A Topographical dictionary of Scotland

  • 72numol — adj that can contain or hold much, able to take or contain much, wide, large, spacious, roomy, capacious; capacious, susceptible, capable of, good, able, apt, fit for; of the mind, able to grasp, capable; [capax], holding much, quick at learning; …

    Old to modern English dictionary

  • 73broad — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. wide; widespread, extensive; marked (as an accent); sweeping, comprehensive; liberal, tolerant. See breadth, liberality, generality, impurity.Ant., narrow. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Physically… …

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  • 74large — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. big, huge, colossal, enormous, immense; large scale. See size. Ant., small. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Of Great size] Syn. big, great, huge, wide, grand, considerable, substantial, vast, massive,… …

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  • 75wide — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. spacious, widespreading, comprehensive; generous, ample, all embracing; broad, large, roomy, extensive; vast, open; general. See breadth, expansion. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Broad] Syn. extended,… …

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  • 76Size — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Size >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 size size magnitude dimension bulk volume Sgm: N 1 largeness largeness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 greatness greatness &c.(of quantity) 31 Sgm: N 1 e …

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  • 77capable — [16] In common with a wide range of other English words, from capture to recuperate, capable comes from Latin capere ‘take’, a relative of English heave. An adjective derived from the verb was Latin capāx ‘able to hold much’, from which English… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 78heave — [OE] Heave is part of a major family of English words that can trace their ancestry back to Indo European *kap ‘seize’. One of its Latin descendants was the verb capere ‘take’, which has given English capable, capacious, capstan, caption,… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 79περιχανδέα — περιχανδής capacious neut nom/voc/acc pl (epic ionic) περιχανδής capacious masc/fem acc sg (epic ionic) …

    Greek morphological index (Ελληνική μορφολογικούς δείκτες)

  • 80πολυχωρητοτέρα — πολυχωρητοτέρᾱ , πολυχώρητος capacious fem nom/voc/acc comp dual πολυχωρητοτέρᾱ , πολυχώρητος capacious fem nom/voc comp sg (attic doric aeolic) …

    Greek morphological index (Ελληνική μορφολογικούς δείκτες)