 | 1903 - 880 sider
...learning lessons from sad experiences. SHOLIWE. (ARROW REEDS.) Implements. — Four split reeds, measured from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the middle finger, the fingers being extended ; a bowl-shaped basket, a buckskin, a blanket, bits of pith or the central core of a... | |
 | 1904 - 972 sider
...34). The rain priests thought the reeds used for the game were too long, so their length was measured from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the middle finger, both extended. The rain priests considered this game so efficacious in bringing rain that they organized... | |
 | Sir Charles Alfred Bell - 1905 - 676 sider
...finger. 1 Or se-tre CHAPTKE XIV. 107 Tho Thru Dom i &JJT") i RT \. Ko-sa-tsa Tsha-pho SKaK-sa the span from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the middle finger. the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger. Distance f rom tne middle finger tip of one... | |
 | Sir Charles Alfred Bell - 1905 - 640 sider
...follows : — 8or /^^*\. the breadth of one finger. 1 Or se.tre CHAPTER XIV. 107 Tho / SJlf) the span from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the middle finger. Thru i nr \. the distance from the elbow to the tip of Siff the middle finger. Dom (GVS3T)- the distance... | |
 | Franklin Thomas Baker, George Rice Carpenter, Jennie Freeborn Owens - 1906 - 322 sider
...end of the kitchen. pip' pin, a kind of apple ; span, the distance a man can stretch with the hand from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the middle finger ; sa'vor y, sweet smelling ; car'cass, a body ; weap'on, something with which one fights; bide, to... | |
 | Franklin Thomas Baker - 1906 - 316 sider
...end of the kitchen. pip' pin, a kind of apple ; span, the distance a man can stretch with the hand from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the middle finger ; sa'vor y, sweet smelling ; car'cass, a body ; weap'on, something with which one fights ; bide, to... | |
 | Franklin Thomas Baker - 1906 - 316 sider
...end of the kitchen. pip' pin, a kind of apple ; span, the distance a man can stretch with the hand from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the middle finger ; sa'vor y, sweet smelling ; car'cass, a body ; weap'on, something with which one fights ; bide, to... | |
 | Ludwig Hopf - 1909 - 508 sider
...Man in his primitive state knows no other scale than his own limbs can provide. The use of the span from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the middle finger, the finger and its individual phalanges for measuring, is as old as the human race itself and has not yet... | |
 | Sir Charles Alfred Bell - 1919 - 258 sider
...ju-ta, Hin. Is lost (lit. having been lost, is not) = " la-ne min-du. Finger-breadth = ^^" sor. Span (from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the middle finger when extended) = 5$$ tho. Cubit (from the point of the elbow to the tip of the middle finger) = I2T... | |
 | 1928 - 438 sider
...RECKONING, DIRECTIONS, AND COLORS A number of measurements are in use. These have no names. The finger span, from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the middle finger, and the hand length, from the tip of the middle finger along the palm to the wrist, are used in measuring... | |
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... hand from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the middle finger ; sa'vor y, sweet smelling ; car'cass, a body ; weap'on, something with which one fights ; bide, to dwell. 
