Reif vs Seif - What's the difference?
reif | seif |
Robbery.
* , a letter, recorded in The History of Scotland (John Hill Burton, 1873), volume 3, page 109:
* Raphael Holinshed, Chronicles :
* 1814 , Walter Scott, Waverley :
* 1898 , Robert Borland, Border Raids and Reivers , page 42:
* (seemoreCites)
A sand dune that elongates parallel to the prevailing wind.
* 1954 , Bulletin of the Research Council of Israel , Volume 4,
* 1973 , Ralph Alger Bagnold, The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes ,
* 1980 , P. Turner, Continental Red Beds ,
* {{quote-journal, 2009, date=February 26, Bruno Andreotti et al., Giant aeolian dune size determined by the average depth of the atmospheric boundary layer, Nature, url=, doi=10.1038/nature07787, volume=457, issue=7233, pages=1120-1123
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As nouns the difference between reif and seif
is that reif is ring or reif can be hoar frost (cover of minute ice crystals on a surface ) while seif is aids.reif
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From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) . See also (l), (l).Noun
(-)- The opposition, which, as we shall see, was headed by Archbishop Beaton, protested against the "daily slaughters, murders, reifs , thefts, depredations, and heavy attemptates, that are daily and hourly committed within this realm in fault of justice."
- meaning to live by reif of other mennes goodes, wherein they have no manner of propertie.
- the lawless thieves, limmers, and broken men of the Highlands, had been in fellowship together by reason of their surnames for the committing of divers thefts, reifs , and herships.
- In the year 1567, in the first Parliament of James VI., an important Act was passed, entitled "Anent Theft and Receipt of Theft, Taking of Prisoners by Thieves, or Bands for Ransoms, and Punishment of the same." It relates especially to the thieves and "broken men" [who] commit daily "thefts, ' reifs , herschips, murders, and fire raisings" upon the peaceable subjects of the country.
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* ----seif
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* saifNoun
(en noun)page 196,
- Such seifs have a somewhat zig-zag form instead of a fairly straight line.
- On the top of seifs' small transverse dunelets are very often found, and these may be likened to almost straightened-out barchans.On the top of the ' seif they form a wave-like pattern with a fairly defined "wavelength".
page 224,
- Though the actual transition forms suggested in Fig. 76 do exist and have been examined by the author, the above tentative explanation of the growth of a seif dune chain should certainly not be taken as implying that all such chains have originated as barchans.
page 80,
- Seifs are longitudinal forms elongated parallel to the prevailing wind direction.