the Pamirs
         n 1: a mountain range in central Asia that is centered in
               Tajikistan but extends into Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan and
               Pakistan and western China [syn: {Pamir Mountains}, {the
               Pamirs}]

English Dictionary: the Venerable Bede	by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
the Venerable Bede n (Roman Catholic Church) English monk and scholar (672-735) Synonym(s): Bede, Saint Bede, St. Bede, Baeda, Saint Baeda, St. Baeda, Beda, Saint Beda, St. Beda, the Venerable Bede
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Basket \Bas"ket\, n. [Of unknown origin. The modern Celtic words       seem to be from the English.]       1. A vessel made of osiers or other twigs, cane, rushes,             splints, or other flexible material, interwoven. [bd]Rude             baskets . . . woven of the flexile willow.[b8] --Dyer.          2. The contents of a basket; as much as a basket contains;             as, a basket of peaches.          3. (Arch.) The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital.             [Improperly so used.] --Gwilt.          4. The two back seats facing one another on the outside of a             stagecoach. [Eng.] --Goldsmith.          {Basket fish} (Zo[94]l.), an ophiuran of the genus             {Astrophyton}, having the arms much branched. See             {Astrophyton}.          {Basket hilt}, a hilt with a covering wrought like basketwork             to protect the hand. --Hudibras. Hence,          {Baskethilted}, a.          {Basket work}, work consisting of plaited osiers or twigs.          {Basket worm} (Zo[94]l.), a lepidopterous insect of the genus             {Thyridopteryx} and allied genera, esp. {T.             ephemer[91]formis}. The larva makes and carries about a             bag or basket-like case of silk and twigs, which it             afterwards hangs up to shelter the pupa and wingless adult             females.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Art \Art\ ([aum]rt), n. [F. art, L. ars, artis, orig., skill in       joining or fitting; prob. akin to E. arm, aristocrat,       article.]       1. The employment of means to accomplish some desired end;             the adaptation of things in the natural world to the uses             of life; the application of knowledge or power to             practical purposes.                         Blest with each grace of nature and of art. --Pope.          2. A system of rules serving to facilitate the performance of             certain actions; a system of principles and rules for             attaining a desired end; method of doing well some special             work; -- often contradistinguished from science or             speculative principles; as, the art of building or             engraving; the art of war; the art of navigation.                         Science is systematized knowledge . . . Art is                      knowledge made efficient by skill.      --J. F.                                                                               Genung.          3. The systematic application of knowledge or skill in             effecting a desired result. Also, an occupation or             business requiring such knowledge or skill.                         The fishermen can't employ their art with so much                      success in so troubled a sea.            --Addison.          4. The application of skill to the production of the             beautiful by imitation or design, or an occupation in             which skill is so employed, as in painting and sculpture;             one of the fine arts; as, he prefers art to literature.          5. pl. Those branches of learning which are taught in the             academical course of colleges; as, master of arts.                         In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts.                                                                               --Pope.                         Four years spent in the arts (as they are called in                      colleges) is, perhaps, laying too laborious a                      foundation.                                       --Goldsmith.          6. Learning; study; applied knowledge, science, or letters.             [Archaic]                         So vast is art, so narrow human wit.   --Pope.          7. Skill, dexterity, or the power of performing certain             actions, acquired by experience, study, or observation;             knack; as, a man has the art of managing his business to             advantage.          8. Skillful plan; device.                         They employed every art to soothe . . . the                      discontented warriors.                        --Macaulay.          9. Cunning; artifice; craft.                         Madam, I swear I use no art at all.   --Shak.                         Animals practice art when opposed to their superiors                      in strength.                                       --Crabb.          10. The black art; magic. [Obs.] --Shak.          {Art and part} (Scots Law), share or concern by aiding and             abetting a criminal in the perpetration of a crime,             whether by advice or by assistance in the execution;             complicity.          Note: The arts are divided into various classes.          {The useful, mechanical, [or] industrial arts} are those in             which the hands and body are more concerned than the mind;             as in making clothes and utensils. These are called             trades.          {The fine arts} are those which have primarily to do with             imagination and taste, and are applied to the production             of what is beautiful. They include poetry, music,             painting, engraving, sculpture, and architecture; but the             term is often confined to painting, sculpture, and             architecture.          {The liberal arts} (artes liberales, the higher arts, which,             among the Romans, only freemen were permitted to pursue)             were, in the Middle Ages, these seven branches of             learning, -- grammar, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic,             geometry, music, and astronomy. In modern times the             liberal arts include the sciences, philosophy, history,             etc., which compose the course of academical or collegiate             education. Hence, degrees in the arts; master and bachelor             of arts.                         In America, literature and the elegant arts must                      grow up side by side with the coarser plants of                      daily necessity.                                 --Irving.          Syn: Science; literature; aptitude; readiness; skill;                dexterity; adroitness; contrivance; profession;                business; trade; calling; cunning; artifice; duplicity.                See {Science}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Open \O"pen\, a. [AS. open; akin to D. open, OS. opan, G. offan,       Icel. opinn, Sw. [94]ppen, Dan. aaben, and perh. to E. up.       Cf. {Up}, and {Ope}.]       1. Free of access; not shut up; not closed; affording             unobstructed ingress or egress; not impeding or preventing             passage; not locked up or covered over; -- applied to             passageways; as, an open door, window, road, etc.; also,             to inclosed structures or objects; as, open houses, boxes,             baskets, bottles, etc.; also, to means of communication or             approach by water or land; as, an open harbor or             roadstead.                         Through the gate, Wide open and unquarded, Satan                      passed.                                             --Milton          Note: Also, figuratively, used of the ways of communication                of the mind, as by the senses; ready to hear, see,                etc.; as, to keep one's eyes and ears open.                            His ears are open unto their cry.   --Ps. xxxiv.                                                                               15.          2. Free to be used, enjoyed, visited, or the like; not             private; public; unrestricted in use; as, an open library,             museum, court, or other assembly; liable to the approach,             trespass, or attack of any one; unprotected; exposed.                         If Demetrius . . . have a matter against any man,                      the law is open and there are deputies. --Acts xix.                                                                               33.                         The service that I truly did his life, Hath left me                      open to all injuries.                        --Shak.          3. Free or cleared of obstruction to progress or to view;             accessible; as, an open tract; the open sea.          4. Not drawn together, closed, or contracted; extended;             expanded; as, an open hand; open arms; an open flower; an             open prospect.                         Each, with open arms, embraced her chosen knight.                                                                               --Dryden.          5. Hence:             (a) Without reserve or false pretense; sincere;                   characterized by sincerity; unfeigned; frank; also,                   generous; liberal; bounteous; -- applied to personal                   appearance, or character, and to the expression of                   thought and feeling, etc.                               With aspect open, shall erect his head. --Pope.                               The Moor is of a free and open nature. --Shak.                               The French are always open, familiar, and                            talkative.                                    --Addison.             (b) Not concealed or secret; not hidden or disguised;                   exposed to view or to knowledge; revealed; apparent;                   as, open schemes or plans; open shame or guilt.                               His thefts are too open.               --Shak.                               That I may find him, and with secret gaze Or                            open admiration him behold.         --Milton.          6. Not of a quality to prevent communication, as by closing             water ways, blocking roads, etc.; hence, not frosty or             inclement; mild; -- used of the weather or the climate;             as, an open season; an open winter. --Bacon.          7. Not settled or adjusted; not decided or determined; not             closed or withdrawn from consideration; as, an open             account; an open question; to keep an offer or opportunity             open.          8. Free; disengaged; unappropriated; as, to keep a day open             for any purpose; to be open for an engagement.          9. (Phon.)             (a) Uttered with a relatively wide opening of the                   articulating organs; -- said of vowels; as, the [84]n                   f[84]r is open as compared with the [be] in s[be]y.             (b) Uttered, as a consonant, with the oral passage simply                   narrowed without closure, as in uttering s.          10. (Mus.)             (a) Not closed or stopped with the finger; -- said of the                   string of an instrument, as of a violin, when it is                   allowed to vibrate throughout its whole length.             (b) Produced by an open string; as, an open tone.          {The open air}, the air out of doors.          {Open chain}. (Chem.) See {Closed chain}, under {Chain}.          {Open circuit} (Elec.), a conducting circuit which is             incomplete, or interrupted at some point; -- opposed to an             uninterrupted, or {closed circuit}.          {Open communion}, communion in the Lord's supper not             restricted to persons who have been baptized by immersion.             Cf. {Close communion}, under {Close}, a.          {Open diapason} (Mus.), a certain stop in an organ, in which             the pipes or tubes are formed like the mouthpiece of a             flageolet at the end where the wind enters, and are open             at the other end.          {Open flank} (Fort.), the part of the flank covered by the             orillon.          {Open-front furnace} (Metal.), a blast furnace having a             forehearth.          {Open harmony} (Mus.), harmony the tones of which are widely             dispersed, or separated by wide intervals.          {Open hawse} (Naut.), a hawse in which the cables are             parallel or slightly divergent. Cf. {Foul hawse}, under             {Hawse}.          {Open hearth} (Metal.), the shallow hearth of a reverberatory             furnace.          {Open-hearth furnace}, a reverberatory furnace; esp., a kind             of reverberatory furnace in which the fuel is gas, used in             manufacturing steel.          {Open-hearth process} (Steel Manuf.), a process by which             melted cast iron is converted into steel by the addition             of wrought iron, or iron ore and manganese, and by             exposure to heat in an open-hearth furnace; -- also called             the {Siemens-Martin process}, from the inventors.          {Open-hearth steel}, steel made by an open-hearth process; --             also called {Siemens-Martin steel}.          {Open newel}. (Arch.) See {Hollow newel}, under {Hollow}.          {Open pipe} (Mus.), a pipe open at the top. It has a pitch             about an octave higher than a closed pipe of the same             length.          {Open-timber roof} (Arch.), a roof of which the             constructional parts, together with the under side of the             covering, or its lining, are treated ornamentally, and             left to form the ceiling of an apartment below, as in a             church, a public hall, and the like.          {Open vowel} [or] {consonant}. See {Open}, a., 9.          Note: Open is used in many compounds, most of which are                self-explaining; as, open-breasted, open-minded.          Syn: Unclosed; uncovered; unprotected; exposed; plain;                apparent; obvious; evident; public; unreserved; frank;                sincere; undissembling; artless. See {Candid}, and                {Ingenuous}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Theban \The"ban\, a. [L. Thebanus.]       Of or pertaining to Thebes.          {Theban year} (Anc. Chron.), the Egyptian year of 365 days             and 6 hours. --J. Bryant.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Beam \Beam\, n. [AS. be[a0]m beam, post, tree, ray of light;       akin to OFries. b[be]m tree, OS. b[?]m, D. boom, OHG. boum,       poum, G. baum, Icel. ba[?]mr, Goth. bahms and Gr. [?] a       growth, [?] to become, to be. Cf. L. radius staff, rod, spoke       of a wheel, beam or ray, and G. strahl arrow, spoke of a       wheel, ray or beam, flash of lightning. [?]97. See {Be}; cf.       {Boom} a spar.]       1. Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to             its thickness, and prepared for use.          2. One of the principal horizontal timbers of a building or             ship.                         The beams of a vessel are strong pieces of timber                      stretching across from side to side to support the                      decks.                                                --Totten.          3. The width of a vessel; as, one vessel is said to have more             beam than another.          4. The bar of a balance, from the ends of which the scales             are suspended.                         The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.                                                                               --Pope.          5. The principal stem or horn of a stag or other deer, which             bears the antlers, or branches.          6. The pole of a carriage. [Poetic] --Dryden.          7. A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which             weavers wind the warp before weaving; also, the cylinder             on which the cloth is rolled, as it is woven; one being             called the fore beam, the other the back beam.          8. The straight part or shank of an anchor.          9. The main part of a plow, to which the handles and colter             are secured, and to the end of which are attached the oxen             or horses that draw it.          10. (Steam Engine) A heavy iron lever having an oscillating             motion on a central axis, one end of which is connected             with the piston rod from which it receives motion, and             the other with the crank of the wheel shaft; -- called             also {working beam} or {walking beam}.          11. A ray or collection of parallel rays emitted from the sun             or other luminous body; as, a beam of light, or of heat.                         How far that little candle throws his beams !                                                                               --Shak.          12. Fig.: A ray; a gleam; as, a beam of comfort.                         Mercy with her genial beam.               --Keble.          13. One of the long feathers in the wing of a hawk; -- called             also {beam feather}.          {Abaft the beam} (Naut.), in an arc of the horizon between a             line that crosses the ship at right angles, or in the             direction of her beams, and that point of the compass             toward which her stern is directed.          {Beam center} (Mach.), the fulcrum or pin on which the             working beam of an engine vibrates.          {Beam compass}, an instrument consisting of a rod or beam,             having sliding sockets that carry steel or pencil points;             -- used for drawing or describing large circles.          {Beam engine}, a steam engine having a working beam to             transmit power, in distinction from one which has its             piston rod attached directly to the crank of the wheel             shaft.          {Before the beam} (Naut.), in an arc of the horizon included             between a line that crosses the ship at right angles and             that point of the compass toward which the ship steers.          {On the beam}, in a line with the beams, or at right angled             with the keel.          {On the weather beam}, on the side of a ship which faces the             wind.          {To be on her beam ends}, to incline, as a vessel, so much on             one side that her beams approach a vertical position.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tubinares \Tu`bi*na"res\, n. pl. [NL., fr. L. tubus tube + nares       the nostrils.] (Zo[94]l.)       A tribe of sea birds comprising the petrels, shearwaters,       albatrosses, hagdons, and allied birds having tubular horny       nostrils.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
The Pinery, CO (CDP, FIPS 77235)       Location: 39.45523 N, 104.73394 W       Population (1990): 4885 (1561 housing units)       Area: 14.2 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
two-binary, one-quaternary          (2B1Q) A {physical layer} encoding used for       {Integrated Services Digital Network} {basic rate interface}.       2B1Q represents two {bit}s (2B - a "dibit") using one of four       signal levels (1Q - a "quadratude").   The first bit of the       dibit is indicated by polarity: positive indicates a binary 1       and negative indicates a 0.   The second half of the dibit is       indicated by voltage magnitude: 1 Volt indicates a binary 1       and 3 Volts indicates binary 0.          (2003-01-10)