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High :: High (n.) An elevated place; a superior region; a height; the sky; heaven.

Hand :: Hand (n.) A measure equal to a hand's breadth, -- four inches; a palm. Chiefly used in measuring the height of horses..

Anthropometry :: Anthropometry (n.) Measurement of the height and other dimensions of human beings, especially at different ages, or in different races, occupations, etc..

Wall :: Wall (n.) A work or structure of stone, brick, or other materials, raised to some height, and intended for defense or security, solid and permanent inclosing fence, as around a field, a park, a town, etc., also, one of the upright inclosing parts of a building or a room..

Apomecometer :: Apomecometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the height of objects.

Pitot''s Tube :: Pitot's tube () A bent tube used to determine the velocity of running water, by placing the curved end under water, and observing the height to which the fluid rises in the tube; a kind of current meter..

Summity :: Summity (n.) The height or top of anything.

Bore :: Bore (n.) A tidal flood which regularly or occasionally rushes into certain rivers of peculiar configuration or location, in one or more waves which present a very abrupt front of considerable height, dangerous to shipping, as at the mouth of the Amazon, in South America, the Hoogly and Indus, in India, and the Tsien-tang, in China..

Ropedancer :: Ropedancer (n.) One who dances, walks, or performs acrobatic feats, on a rope extended through the air at some height..

Commode :: Commode (n.) A kind of headdress formerly worn by ladies, raising the hair and fore part of the cap to a great height..

Float :: Float (v. i.) Anything which floats or rests on the surface of a fluid, as to sustain weight, or to indicate the height of the surface, or mark the place of, something..

Raise :: Raise (v. t.) To increase the strength, vigor, or vehemence of; to excite; to intensify; to invigorate; to heighten; as, to raise the pulse; to raise the voice; to raise the spirits or the courage; to raise the heat of a furnace..

Longbow :: Longbow (n.) The ordinary bow, not mounted on a stock; -- so called in distinction from the crossbow when both were used as weapons of war. Also, sometimes, such a bow of about the height of a man, as distinguished from a much shorter one..

Altitude :: Altitude (n.) Height of degree; highest point or degree.

Rise :: Rise (v.) To grow upward; to attain a certain height; as, this elm rises to the height of seventy feet..

Hermes :: Hermes (n.) Originally, a boundary stone dedicated to Hermes as the god of boundaries, and therefore bearing in some cases a head, or head and shoulders, placed upon a quadrangular pillar whose height is that of the body belonging to the head, sometimes having feet or other parts of the body sculptured upon it. These figures, though often representing Hermes, were used for other divinities, and even, in later times, for portraits of human beings. Called also herma. See Terminal statue, under Ter

Dovecote :: Dovecote (n.) A small house or box, raised to a considerable height above the ground, and having compartments, in which domestic pigeons breed; a dove house..

Proportion :: Proportion (v.) To adjust in a suitable proportion, as one thing or one part to another; as, to proportion the size of a building to its height; to proportion our expenditures to our income..

Ascendant :: Ascendant (n.) Ascent; height; elevation.

Lofty :: Lofty (superl.) Lifted high up; having great height; towering; high.

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