Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Plural of os1.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An Anglo-Saxon money of account. In the laws of Edward the Elder and Guthrum, the ora was equivalent to 2½ shillings of the time. In the Doomsday Book the ora was equal to 20 pence.
- n. Plural of os.
- n. A margin, or border, in technical uses; specifically, in entomology, the inflexed or inferior lateral margin of the prothorax, often separated from the antepectus by a suture.
- n. The day wind which blows from the south up the valley of lake Garda, in northern Italy.
Wiktionary
- n. Plural form of os.; mouths or openings, especially of the cervix.
- n. A unit of money among the Anglo-Saxons.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A money of account among the Anglo-Saxons, valued, in the Domesday Book, at twenty pence sterling.
Etymologies
- Anglo-Saxon. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The phrase "ora d'aria" refers to the period when prison inmates are let into the yard: a blessed reprieve, which the restaurant Ora d'Aria certainly offers.”
“But in the higher elevations that you have around the city, there is a chance we may have what we refer to as a ora-graphic (ph) lift, which that moisture goes right up the hillsides, mountainsides, it is actually squeezed out.”
“The señora is threatening to go to the delegado, the town magistrate.”
The lady is a tramp - an excerpt from the book: Agave Marias
“Since my Señora is in Mexico City taking care of the grandchildren while my daughter celebrates another wedding aniversary, I decided to go mountain biking up to the village of Rancho Viejo to have an exquisite "trucha al mojo de ajo y acuyo" with Doña Santos.”
“Nonne et ab ore magni illius hominis in ora omnium Christianorum diriuatum est: Ecce enim in iniquitatibus conceptus sum, et in peccatis concepit me mater mea?”
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
“The Señora is German?" he said in Spanish to the younger one.”
“a Mexican señora is an idle one; nor, in such cases, can it be considered a useless one.”
Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country
“I learned that Lassie’s owner had said, “If the Señora is kind enough to feed our horse, she should have something beautiful to put the food in.””
“She giggled behind her hand and could barely get out the words, “Oh Señora, that is the back side of a turkey and he is bending over to reach the corn on the ground.””
“Thus far in our consideration of the "school of God's service", as Benedict describes monasticism, we have examined only its orientation towards the word -towards the "ora".”
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Palabras de 3 letras en Español.
La única lista que también incluye flexiónes verbales y pluralizaciones. Aún faltan algunas por encontrar.
(Por ser una lista para Scrabble, los dígrafos ll, rr, y ch se consideran com...aba, aca, aga, ahe, ahi, aho, aja, aje, aji, ajo, ala, ale and 427 more...
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3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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3LW
3 letter words, not the girl band.
boggle and speed scrabble would not be half as fun without them.aah, boa, dot, fun, ick, log, oca, pyx, sos, was, aal, bob and 342 more...
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Anatomical Terms
Anatomical terms
folliculus, follicle, tegmentum, labrum, margo, lacertus, ora, corporal, corpus, capital, caput, gula and 86 more...
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