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Handicap :: Handicap (n.) An allowance of a certain amount of time or distance in starting, granted in a race to the competitor possessing inferior advantages; or an additional weight or other hindrance imposed upon the one possessing superior advantages, in order to equalize, as much as possible, the chances of success; as, the handicap was five seconds, or ten pounds, and the like..

Eloignment :: Eloignment (n.) Removal to a distance; withdrawal.

Further :: Further (superl.) More remote; at a greater distance; more in advance; farther; as, the further end of the field. See Farther..

Yonder :: Yonder (a.) Being at a distance within view, or conceived of as within view; that or those there; yon..

Heliotrope :: Heliotrope (n.) An instrument for making signals to an observer at a distance, by means of the sun's rays thrown from a mirror..

Sextant :: Sextant (n.) An instrument for measuring angular distances between objects, -- used esp. at sea, for ascertaining the latitude and longitude. It is constructed on the same optical principle as Hadley's quadrant, but usually of metal, with a nicer graduation, telescopic sight, and its arc the sixth, and sometimes the third, part of a circle. See Quadrant..

Stadia :: Stadimeter (n.) A horizontal graduated bar mounted on a staff, used as a stadium, or telemeter, for measuring distances..

Outport :: Outport (n.) A harbor or port at some distance from the chief town or seat of trade.

Digression :: Digression (n.) The elongation, or angular distance from the sun; -- said chiefly of the inferior planets..

Yon :: Yon (a.) At a distance, but within view; yonder..

Near :: Near (adv.) At a little distance, in place, time, manner, or degree; not remote; nigh..

Eccentricity :: Eccentricity (n.) The ratio of the distance of the center of the orbit of a heavenly body from the center of the body round which it revolves to the semi-transverse axis of the orbit.

Remove :: Remove (n.) The distance or space through which anything is removed; interval; distance; stage; hence, a step or degree in any scale of gradation; specifically, a division in an English public school; as, the boy went up two removes last year..

Call :: Call (n.) A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description in a survey or grant requiring or calling for a corresponding object, etc., on the land..

Distance :: Distance (n.) Ideal disjunction; discrepancy; contrariety.

Coudee :: Coudee (n.) A measure of length; the distance from the elbow to the end of the middle finger; a cubit.

Aplysia :: Aplysia (n.) A genus of marine mollusks of the order Tectibranchiata; the sea hare. Some of the species when disturbed throw out a deep purple liquor, which colors the water to some distance. See Illust. in Appendix..

Bastion :: Bastion (n.) A work projecting outward from the main inclosure of a fortification, consisting of two faces and two flanks, and so constructed that it is able to defend by a flanking fire the adjacent curtain, or wall which extends from one bastion to another. Two adjacent bastions are connected by the curtain, which joins the flank of one with the adjacent flank of the other. The distance between the flanks of a bastion is called the gorge. A lunette is a detached bastion. See Ravelin..

Insulated :: Insulated (p. a.) Situated at so great a distance as to be beyond the effect of gravitation; -- said of stars supposed to be so far apart that the affect of their mutual attraction is insensible.

Thrombosis :: Thrombosis (n.) The obstruction of a blood vessel by a clot formed at the site of obstruction; -- distinguished from embolism, which is produced by a clot or foreign body brought from a distance..

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