"Drachma" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH
A term employed in old pleadings and records, to denote a groat Townsh. Pl. 180.
A gold and silver coin of modern Greece worth 19.3 cents.
A silver coin among the ancient Greeks, having a different
value in different States and at different periods. The average value
of the Attic drachma is computed to have been about 19 cents.
Among the ancient Greeks, a weight of about 66.5 grains;
among the modern Greeks, a weight equal to a gram.
Human life is under the absolute dominion of two mighty principles, fear and hope, and that any one who can make these serve his ends may be sure of rapid fortune.
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The first letter of the English and of many other alphabets. The capital A of the alphabets of Middle and …
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Read the complete definitionApplied to the case (as the fourth case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses the immediate object on which …
Read the complete definitionA native of Achaia; a Greek.
Read the complete definitionCombining forms of the Greek word for gland; -- used in words relating to the structure, diseases, etc., of the …
Read the complete definitionOf or pertaining to Aeolia or Aeolis, in Asia Minor, colonized by the Greeks, or to its inhabitants; aeolic; as, …
Read the complete definitionThe combining form of the Greek word meaning air.
Read the complete definitionAn assembly; hence, the place of assembly, especially the market place, in an ancient Greek city.
Read the complete definitionThe first letter in the Greek alphabet, answering to A, and hence used to denote the beginning.
Read the complete definitionA prefix in words of Greek origin, signifying both, of both kinds, on both sides, about, around.
Read the complete definitionA prefix in words from the Greek, denoting up, upward, throughout, backward, back, again, anew.
Read the complete definitionPertaining to, after the manner of, or in the meter of, the Greek poet Anacreon; amatory and convivial.
Read the complete definitionA collection of flowers of literature, that is, beautiful passages from authors; a collection of poems or epigrams; -- particularly …
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Read the complete definitionA tense in the Greek language, which expresses an action as completed in past time, but leaves it, in other …
Read the complete definitionThe Greek goddess of love, corresponding to the Venus of the Romans.
Read the complete definitionA prefix from a Greek preposition. It usually signifies from, away from, off, or asunder, separate; as, in apocope (a …
Read the complete definitionA deity among the Greeks and Romans. He was the god of light and day (the \"sun god\"), of archery, …
Read the complete definitionOf or pertaining to the satiric Greek poet Archilochus; as, Archilochian meter.
Read the complete definitionOf or pertaining to Archimedes, a celebrated Greek philosopher; constructed on the principle of Archimedes' screw; as, Archimedean drill, propeller, …
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