Definition of inch

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Inch (v. i.) To advance or retire by inches or small degrees; to move slowly.

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Accent :: Accent (n.) A mark used to denote feet and inches; as, 6' 10'' is six feet ten inches..
Cinch :: Cinch (n.) A strong saddle girth, as of canvas..
Wetbird :: Wetbird (n.) The chaffinch, whose cry is thought to foretell rain..
Deal :: Deal (n.) The division of a piece of timber made by sawing; a board or plank; particularly, a board or plank of fir or pine above seven inches in width, and exceeding six feet in length. If narrower than this, it is called a batten; if shorter, a deal end..
Handful :: Handful (n.) A hand's breadth; four inches.
Fist :: Fist (n.) The hand with the fingers doubled into the palm; the closed hand, especially as clinched tightly for the purpose of striking a blow..
Quinine :: Quinine (n.) An alkaloid extracted from the bark of several species of cinchona (esp. Cinchona Calisaya) as a bitter white crystalline substance, C20H24N2O2. Hence, by extension (Med.), any of the salts of this alkaloid, as the acetate, chloride, sulphate, etc., employed as a febrifuge or antiperiodic. Called also quinia, quinina, etc..
Prime :: Prime (a.) An inch, as composed of twelve seconds in the duodecimal system; -- denoted by [']. See 2d Inch, n., 1..
Holdfast :: Holdfast (n.) Something used to secure and hold in place something else, as a long fiat-headed nail, a catch a hook, a clinch, a clamp, etc.; hence, a support..
Inch :: Inch (v. i.) To advance or retire by inches or small degrees; to move slowly.
Twinge :: Twinge (v. i.) To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak.
Twinge :: Twinge (n.) A pinch; a tweak; a twitch.
Redhoop :: Redhoop (n.) The male of the European bullfinch.
Hutch :: Hutch (n.) A measure of two Winchester bushels.
Riveting :: Riveting (n.) The act of joining with rivets; the act of spreading out and clinching the end, as of a rivet, by beating or pressing..
Nip :: Nip (v. t.) To catch and inclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon..
Chinchilla :: Chinchilla (n.) The fur of the chinchilla.
Line :: Line (n.) A long tape, or a narrow ribbon of steel, etc., marked with subdivisions, as feet and inches, for measuring; a tapeline..
Pinchbeck :: Pinchbeck (a.) Made of pinchbeck; sham; cheap; spurious; unreal.
Bishop''s Length :: Bishop's length () A canvas for a portrait measuring 58 by 94 inches. The half bishop measures 45 by 56.
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