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span | annosity |

As an adjective span

is hairless, glabrous.

As a noun annosity is

(rare) fullness of years; great length of life; agedness; lengthiness of life span.

span

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) spann

Noun

(en noun)
  • The space from the thumb to the end of the little finger when extended; nine inches; eighth of a fathom.
  • Hence, a small space or a brief portion of time.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Yet not to earth's contracted span / Thy goodness let me bound.
  • * Farquhar
    • Life's but a span ; I'll every inch enjoy.
  • * 2007 . Zerzan, John. Silence .
    • The unsilent present is a time of evaporating attention spans ,
  • The spread or extent of an arch or between its abutments, or of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge, or the like, between supports.
  • The length of a cable, wire, rope, chain between two consecutive supports.
  • (nautical) A rope having its ends made fast so that a purchase can be hooked to the bight; also, a rope made fast in the center so that both ends can be used.
  • (obsolete) A pair of horses or other animals driven together; usually, such a pair of horses when similar in color, form, and action.
  • (mathematics) the space of all linear combinations of something
    • Related terms
    * attention span * memory span

    Etymology 2

    Old English spannan

    Verb

    (spann)
  • To traverse the distance between.
    • The suspension bridge spanned the canyon as tenuously as one could imagine.
  • To cover or extend over an area or time period.
    • The parking lot spans three acres.
    The novel spans three centuries.
    World record! 5 GHz WiFi connection spans 189 miles. [http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/27/world-record-5ghz-wifi-connection-spans-189-miles/]
  • * Prescott
    • The rivers were spanned by arches of solid masonry.
  • To measure by the span of the hand with the fingers extended, or with the fingers encompassing the object.
    • to span''' a space or distance; to '''span a cylinder
  • * Bible, Isa. xiviii. 13
    • My right hand hath spanned the heavens.
  • (mathematics) to generate an entire space by means of linear combinations
  • (intransitive, US, dated) To be matched, as horses.
  • To fetter, as a horse; to hobble.

    • Etymology 3

    Verb

    (head)
  • (archaic, nonstandard) (spin)
  • *
  • * '>citation
  • *:a giant pick-up truck span out of control during a stunt show in a Dutch town, killing three people

    • Anagrams

    * English irregular simple past forms ----

    annosity

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (rare) Fullness of years; great length of life; agedness; lengthiness of life span.
  • * 1654 : , The Reign of King Charles, an History faithfully and impartially delivered and disposed into Annals , page 136
    • Robert Parr…the wonder of our times for annosity and long life.
  • * 1994 : , volume 332, issues 7,879–7,882, page 84
    • […] the guardian of this columbarium?—?he missed that one?—?is plainly not a pedant at all. He just has a quirky love of words. Johnson wishes him annosity of his […]

    References

    * (1742 edition)
    ??''Annosity     , Agedness. * A Compleat Dictionary English and Dutch, to which is added a Grammar, for both Languages'', by William Sewel [compil.] and Egbert Buys [ed.] (1766), volume 1, page 21
    ??ANNOSITY, ''Ouderdom     . * Dictionary of the Synonymous Words and Technical Terms in the English Language'', by James Leslie (1806), page 7
    ??AGEDNESS. ''s.     Annosity. * Encyclopædia Perthensis; or, Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, &c.'' (2nd Ed.; 1816), volume II, page 183
    ??ANNOSITY, agedne?s. ''Bailey.     * “ †a?nnosity]” listed in the [2nd Ed.; 1989