English Dictionary: Delius | by the DICT Development Group |
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d890loge \[d8][90]`loge"\, n. [F. See {Elogium}.] A panegyrical funeral oration. | |
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d892olus \[d8][92]"o*lus\, n. [L., fr. Gr. [?].] (Gr. & Rom. Myth.) The god of the winds. | |
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d8Alco \[d8]Al"co\, n. A small South American dog, domesticated by the aborigines. | |
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d8Alexia \[d8]A*lex"i*a\, n. [NL.; a- not + Gr. [?] speech, fr. [?] to speak, confused with L. legere to read.] (Med.) (a) As used by some, inability to read aloud, due to brain disease. (b) More commonly, inability, due to brain disease, to understand written or printed symbols although they can be seen, as in case of word blindness. | |
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d8Alga \[d8]Al"ga\, n.; pl. {Alg[91]}. [L., seaweed.] (Bot.) A kind of seaweed; pl. the class of cellular cryptogamic plants which includes the black, red, and green seaweeds, as kelp, dulse, sea lettuce, also marine and fresh water conferv[91], etc. | |
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d8Diallage \[d8]Di*al"la*ge\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] interchange, change, fr. [?] to interchange.] (Rhet.) A figure by which arguments are placed in various points of view, and then turned to one point. --Smart. | |
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d8Dolce \[d8]Dol"ce\, Dolcemente \Dol`ce*men"te\, adv. [It., fr. L. dulcis sweet, soft.] (Mus.) Softly; sweetly; with soft, smooth, and delicate execution. | |
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d8Dolus \[d8]Do"lus\, n. [L., deceit; akin to Gr. [?].] (Law) Evil intent, embracing both malice and fraud. See {Culpa}. --Wharton. | |
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d8El91is \[d8]E*l[91]"is\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] olive tree.] (Bot.) A genus of palms. Note: El[91]is Guineensis, the African oil palm, is a tree twenty or thirty feet high, with immense pinnate leaves and large masses of fruit. The berries are rather larger than olives, and when boiled in water yield the orange-red palm oil. | |
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d8Halesia \[d8]Ha*le"si*a\, n. [NL.] (Bot.) A genus of American shrubs containing several species, called {snowdrop trees}, or silver-bell trees. They have showy, white flowers, drooping on slender pedicels. | |
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d8Hallux \[d8]Hal"lux\, n. [NL., fr. L. hallex, allex.] (Anat.) The first, or preaxial, digit of the hind limb, corresponding to the pollux in the fore limb; the great toe; the hind toe of birds. | |
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d8Heliozoa \[d8]He`li*o*zo"a\, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] the sun + [?] an animal.] (Zo[94]l.) An order of fresh-water rhizopods having a more or less globular form, with slender radiating pseudopodia; the sun animalcule. | |
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d8Hilus \[d8]Hi"lus\, n. [NL.] (Anat.) Same as {Hilum}, 2. | |
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d8Ileus \[d8]Il"e*us\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. [?], [?], fr. [?] to roll up.] (Med.) A morbid condition due to intestinal obstruction. It is characterized by complete constipation, with griping pains in the abdomen, which is greatly distended, and in the later stages by vomiting of fecal matter. Called also {ileac, [or] iliac, passion}. | |
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d8Ilex \[d8]I"lex\, n. [L., holm oak.] (Bot.) (a) The holm oak ({Quercus Ilex}). (b) A genus of evergreen trees and shrubs, including the common holly. | |
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d8Iulus \[d8]I*u"lus\, n. [L., down, Gr. [?] down, centipede.] (Zo[94]l.) A genus of chilognathous myriapods. The body is long and round, consisting of numerous smooth, equal segments, each of which bears two pairs of short legs. It includes the galleyworms. See {Chilognatha}. | |
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d8Lakao \[d8]La*ka"o\, n. Sap green. [China] | |
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d8Lakh \[d8]Lakh\, n. Same as {Lac}, one hundred thousand. | |
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Lac \Lac\, d8Lakh \[d8]Lakh\, n. [Hind. lak, l[be]kh, l[be]ksh, Skr. laksha a mark, sign, lakh.] One hundred thousand; also, a vaguely great number; as, a lac of rupees. [Written also {lack}.] [East Indies] | |
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d8Lex \[d8]Lex\ (l[ecr]ks), n.; pl. {Leges} (l[emac]"j[emac]z). [L. See {Legal}.] Law; as, lex talionis, the law of retaliation; lex terr[91], the law of the land; lex fori, the law of the forum or court; lex loci, the law of the place; lex mercatoria, the law or custom of merchants. | |
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d8Liza \[d8]Li"za\, n. (Zo[94]l.) The American white mullet ({Mugil curema}). | |
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d8Locao \[d8]Lo*ca"o\, n. A green vegetable dye imported from China. | |
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d8Lochia \[d8]Lo*chi"a\, n. pl. [NL., from Gr. [?], pl., fr. [?] belonging to childbirth, [?] a lying in, childbirth.] (Med.) The discharge from the womb and vagina which follows childbirth. | |
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d8Loco \[d8]Lo"co\, adv. [It.] (Mus.) A direction in written or printed music to return to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher. | |
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d8Loggia \[d8]Log"gia\, n. [It. See {Lodge}.] (Arch.) A roofed open gallery. It differs from a veranda in being more architectural, and in forming more decidedly a part of the main edifice to which it is attached; from a porch, in being intended not for entrance but for an out-of-door sitting-room. | |
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d8Lues \[d8]Lu"es\, n. [L.] (Med.) Disease, especially of a contagious kind. {Lues venerea}, syphilis; -- called also simply {lues}. | |
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d8Lyc82e \[d8]Ly`c[82]e"\, n. [F. Cf. {Lyceum}.] A French lyceum, or secondary school supported by the French government, for preparing students for the university. | |
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d8Lyssa \[d8]Lys"sa\ (l[icr]s"s[adot]), n. [NL. See {Lytta}.] (Med.) Hydrophobia. Note: The plural (Lyss[91]) has been used to signify the pustules supposed to be developed under the tongue in hydrophobia. | |
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d8Tales \[d8]Ta"les\, n. [L., pl. of talis such (persons).] (Law) (a) pl. Persons added to a jury, commonly from those in or about the courthouse, to make up any deficiency in the number of jurors regularly summoned, being like, or such as, the latter. --Blount. Blackstone. (b) syntactically sing. The writ by which such persons are summoned. {Tales book}, a book containing the names of such as are admitted of the tales. --Blount. --Craig. {[d8]Tales de circumstantibus} [L.], such, or the like, from those standing about. | |
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d8Tallis \[d8]Tal"lis\, n. Same as {Tallith}. | |
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d8Talus \[d8]Ta"lus\, n.; pl. {Tali}. [L., the ankle, the ankle bone.] 1. (Anat.) The astragalus. 2. (Surg.) A variety of clubfoot ({Talipes calcaneus}). See the Note under {Talipes}. | |
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d8Thaliacea \[d8]Tha`li*a"ce*a\, n. pl. [NL. See {Thalia}.] (Zo[94]l.) A division of Tunicata comprising the free-swimming species, such as Salpa and Doliolum. | |
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d8Thallus \[d8]Thal"lus\, n.; pl. {Thalli}. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] young shoot or branch, frond.] (Bot.) A solid mass of cellular tissue, consisting of one or more layers, usually in the form of a flat stratum or expansion, but sometimes erect or pendulous, and elongated and branching, and forming the substance of the thallogens. | |
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d8Thalweg \[d8]Thal"weg`\, n. [G., fr. thal valley + weg way. See {Dale}; {Way}.] (Physiography) (a) A line following the lowest part of a valley, whether under water or not. (b) The line of continuous maximum descent from any point on a land surface, or that cutting all contours and angles. | |
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D91dalous \D[91]d"a*lous\, a. (Bot.) Having a variously cut or incised margin; -- said of leaves. | |
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Dahlia \Dah"lia\ (d[aum]l"y[adot] or d[amac]l"y[adot]; 277, 106), n.; pl. {Dahlias}. [Named after Andrew Dahl a Swedish botanist.] (Bot.) A genus of plants native to Mexico and Central America, of the order Composit[91]; also, any plant or flower of the genus. The numerous varieties of cultivated dahlias bear conspicuous flowers which differ in color. | |
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Daily \Dai"ly\, n.; pl. {Dailies}. A publication which appears regularly every day; as, the morning dailies. | |
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Dalles \Dalles\ (d[acr]lz), n. pl. [F. dalle a tube, gutter, trough.] A rapid, esp. one where the channel is narrowed between rock walls. [Northwestern U. S. & Canada] The place below, where the compressed river wound like a silver thread among the flat black rocks, was the far-famed Dalles of the Columbia. --F. H. Balch. | |
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Delay \De*lay"\, n.; pl. {Delays}. [F. d[82]lai, fr. OF. deleer to delay, or fr. L. dilatum, which, though really from a different root, is used in Latin only as a p. p. neut. of differre to carry apart, defer, delay. See {Tolerate}, and cf. {Differ}, {Delay}, v.] A putting off or deferring; procrastination; lingering inactivity; stop; detention; hindrance. Without any delay, on the morrow I sat on the judgment seat. --Acts xxv. 17. The government ought to be settled without the delay of a day. --Macaulay. | |
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Deluge \Del"uge\, n. [F. d[82]luge, L. diluvium, fr. diluere wash away; di- = dis- + luere, equiv. to lavare to wash. See {Lave}, and cf. {Diluvium}.] 1. A washing away; an overflowing of the land by water; an inundation; a flood; specifically, The Deluge, the great flood in the days of Noah (--Gen. vii.). 2. Fig.: Anything which overwhelms, or causes great destruction. [bd]The deluge of summer.[b8] --Lowell. A fiery deluge fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed. --Milton. As I grub up some quaint old fragment of a [London] street, or a house, or a shop, or tomb or burial ground, which has still survived in the deluge. --F. Harrison. After me the deluge. (Apr[82]s moi le d[82]luge.) --Madame de Pompadour. | |
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Deluge \Del"uge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Deluged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Deluging}.] 1. To overflow with water; to inundate; to overwhelm. The deluged earth would useless grow. --Blackmore. 2. To overwhelm, as with a deluge; to cover; to overspread; to overpower; to submerge; to destroy; as, the northern nations deluged the Roman empire with their armies; the land is deluged with woe. At length corruption, like a general flood . . . Shall deluge all. --Pope. | |
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Dewless \Dew"less\, a. Having no dew. --Tennyson. | |
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Dial \Di"al\, n. [LL. dialis daily, fr. L. dies day. See {Deity}.] 1. An instrument, formerly much used for showing the time of day from the shadow of a style or gnomon on a graduated arc or surface; esp., a sundial; but there are lunar and astral dials. The style or gnomon is usually parallel to the earth's axis, but the dial plate may be either horizontal or vertical. 2. The graduated face of a timepiece, on which the time of day is shown by pointers or hands. 3. A miner's compass. {Dial bird} (Zo[94]l.), an Indian bird ({Copsychus saularius}), allied to the European robin. The name is also given to other related species. {Dial lock}, a lock provided with one or more plates having numbers or letters upon them. These plates must be adjusted in a certain determined way before the lock can be operated. {Dial plate}, the plane or disk of a dial or timepiece on which lines and figures for indicating the time are placed. | |
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Diallage \Di"al*lage\ (?; 277), n. [Gr. [?] change, alluding to the change and inequality of luster between the natural joints of the mineral.] (Min.) A dark green or bronze-colored laminated variety of pyroxene, common in certain igneous rocks. | |
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Dialogue \Di"a*logue\ (?; 115), n. [OE. dialogue, L. dialogus, fr. Gr. [?], fr. [?] to converse, dia` through + [?] to speak: cf. F. dialogue. See {Legend}.] 1. A conversation between two or more persons; particularly, a formal conservation in theatrical performances or in scholastic exercises. 2. A written composition in which two or more persons are represented as conversing or reasoning on some topic; as, the Dialogues of Plato. | |
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Dialogue \Di"a*logue\, v. i. [Cf. F. dialoguer.] To take part in a dialogue; to dialogize. [R.] --Shak. | |
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Dialogue \Di"a*logue\, v. t. To express as in dialogue. [R.] And dialogued for him what he would say. --Shak. | |
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Dialyze \Di"a*lyze\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dialyzed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dialyzing}.] (Chem.) To separate, prepare, or obtain, by dialysis or osmose; to pass through an animal membrane; to subject to dialysis. [Written also {dialyse}.] | |
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Dialyze \Di"a*lyze\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dialyzed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dialyzing}.] (Chem.) To separate, prepare, or obtain, by dialysis or osmose; to pass through an animal membrane; to subject to dialysis. [Written also {dialyse}.] | |
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Dulse \Dulse\ (d[ucr]ls), n. [Cf. Gael. duileasg; duille leaf + uisge water. Cf. {Whisky}.] (Bot.) A seaweed of a reddish brown color, which is sometimes eaten, as in Scotland. The true dulse is {Sarcophyllis edulis}; the common is {Rhodymenia}. [Written also {dillisk.}] The crimson leaf of the dulse is seen To blush like a banner bathed in slaughter. --Percival. | |
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Dilogy \Dil"o*gy\, n.; pl. {Dilogies}. [L. dilogia, Gr. [?], fr. [?] doubtful; di- = di`s- twice + [?] to speak.] (Rhet.) An ambiguous speech; a figure in which a word is used an equivocal sense. [R.] | |
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Dolly \Dol"ly\, n.; pl. {Dollies}. 1. (Mining) A contrivance, turning on a vertical axis by a handle or winch, and giving a circular motion to the ore to be washed; a stirrer. 2. (Mach.) A tool with an indented head for shaping the head of a rivet. --Knight. 3. In pile driving, a block interposed between the head of the pile and the ram of the driver. 4. A small truck with a single wide roller used for moving heavy beams, columns, etc., in bridge building. 5. A compact, narrow-gauge locomotive used for moving construction trains, switching, etc. | |
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Dooly \Doo"ly\, n.; pl. {Doolies}. [Skr. d[?]la.] A kind of litter suspended from men's shoulders, for carrying persons or things; a palanquin. [Written also {doolee} and {doolie}.] [East Indies] Having provided doolies, or little bamboo chairs slung on four men's shoulders, in which I put my papers and boxes, we next morning commenced the ascent. --J. D. Hooker. | |
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Dowlas \Dow"las\, n. [Prob. fr. Doullens, a town of Picardy, in France, formerly celebrated for this manufacture.] A coarse linen cloth made in the north of England and in Scotland, now nearly replaced by calico. --Shak. | |
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Dulce \Dulce\, v. t. To make sweet; to soothe. [Obs.] | |
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Dullish \Dull"ish\, a. Somewhat dull; uninteresting; tiresome. [bd]A series of dullish verses.[b8] --Prof. Wilson. | |
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Dulse \Dulse\ (d[ucr]ls), n. [Cf. Gael. duileasg; duille leaf + uisge water. Cf. {Whisky}.] (Bot.) A seaweed of a reddish brown color, which is sometimes eaten, as in Scotland. The true dulse is {Sarcophyllis edulis}; the common is {Rhodymenia}. [Written also {dillisk.}] The crimson leaf of the dulse is seen To blush like a banner bathed in slaughter. --Percival. | |
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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DIALOG 1. A commercial bibliographic database and retrieval service from DIALOG Information Services. 2. Interactive mathematics using a {graphics tablet} by Illinois Inst Tech, 1966. ["DIALOG: A Conversational Programming System with a Graphical Orientation", S.H. Cameron et al, CACM 10:349-357 (1967). Sammet 1969, p.255-258]. | |
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DLC {Data Link Control} | |
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DLCI {Data Link Connection Identifier} [Is this correct?] (1997-03-01) | |
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DLG (DFA-based Lexical analyser Generator) The {lexical analyser} generator in the {Purdue Compiler-Construction Tool Set}. | |
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DLZ1 {Digital Lempel Ziv 1} | |
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DTLS {Descriptive Top-Level Specification} | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Deluge the name given to Noah's flood, the history of which is recorded in Gen. 7 and 8. It began in the year 2516 B.C., and continued twelve lunar months and ten days, or exactly one solar year. The cause of this judgment was the corruption and violence that filled the earth in the ninth generation from Adam. God in righteous indignation determined to purge the earth of the ungodly race. Amid a world of crime and guilt there was one household that continued faithful and true to God, the household of Noah. "Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations." At the command of God, Noah made an ark 300 cubits long, 50 broad, and 30 high. He slowly proceeded with this work during a period of one hundred and twenty years (Gen. 6:3). At length the purpose of God began to be carried into effect. The following table exhibits the order of events as they occurred: In the six hundredth year of his life Noah is commanded by God to enter the ark, taking with him his wife, and his three sons with their wives (Gen. 7:1-10). The rain begins on the seventeenth day of the second month (Gen. 7:11-17). The rain ceases, the waters prevail, fifteen cubits upward (Gen. 7:18-24). The ark grounds on one of the mountains of Ararat on the seventeenth day of the seventh month, or one hundred and fifty days after the Deluge began (Gen. 8:1-4). Tops of the mountains visible on the first day of the tenth month (Gen. 8:5). Raven and dove sent out forty days after this (Gen. 8:6-9). Dove again sent out seven days afterwards; and in the evening she returns with an olive leaf in her mouth (Gen. 8:10, 11). Dove sent out the third time after an interval of other seven days, and returns no more (Gen. 8:12). The ground becomes dry on the first day of the first month of the new year (Gen. 8:13). Noah leaves the ark on the twenty-seventh day of the second month (Gen. 8:14-19). The historical truth of the narrative of the Flood is established by the references made to it by our Lord (Matt. 24:37; comp. Luke 17:26). Peter speaks of it also (1 Pet. 3:20; 2 Pet. 2:5). In Isa. 54:9 the Flood is referred to as "the waters of Noah." The Biblical narrative clearly shows that so far as the human race was concerned the Deluge was universal; that it swept away all men living except Noah and his family, who were preserved in the ark; and that the present human race is descended from those who were thus preserved. Traditions of the Deluge are found among all the great divisions of the human family; and these traditions, taken as a whole, wonderfully agree with the Biblical narrative, and agree with it in such a way as to lead to the conclusion that the Biblical is the authentic narrative, of which all these traditions are more or less corrupted versions. The most remarkable of these traditions is that recorded on tablets prepared by order of Assur-bani-pal, the king of Assyria. These were, however, copies of older records which belonged to somewhere about B.C. 2000, and which formed part of the priestly library at Erech (q.v.), "the ineradicable remembrance of a real and terrible event." (See {NOAH}; {CHALDEA}.) |