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mean sea level(medicine)
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glaive (iou) and mean sea level (medicine)


glaive (iou)



glaive noun. ME.
[Old & mod. French (also glavie) lance, sword, app. from Latin gladius sword.]
A weapon consisting of a blade or sharp point fixed to a long handle; a lance; a halberd. ME-L17.
S. Butler Zeal, with aged clubs and gleaves Gave chase.
b. A lance set up as the winning-post in a race and freq. given as a prize to the winner; gen. a prize. LME-M16.
A sword; esp. a broadsword. arch. or poet. L15.
C. Bowen [He] girds on the Ach?an's glittering glaive.
A fish-spear. Chiefly dial. M17.
G. Swift He would catch eels..with a long, many-bladed spear called a glaive.

mean sea level (medicine)


mean sea level
<marine biology> A tidal datum: the arithmetic mean of hourly water elevations observed over a specific 19-year cycle. Points on land can be referenced to a mean sea level, in which case the datum assumes zero elevation.