Word Meanings - PISTOLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The name of certain gold coins of various values formerly coined in some countries of Europe. In Spain it was equivalent to a quarter doubloon, or about .90, and in Germany and Italy nearly the same. There was an old Italian pistole worth about .40.

• Therefore
  For that or this reason, referring to something previously stated; for that.
• Various
  Different; diverse; several; manifold; as, men of various names; various occupations; various colors.
• QUARTERSAW
  To saw (a log) into quarters; specif., to saw into quarters and then into boards, as by cutting alternately from each face of a quarter, to secure lumber that will warp relatively little or show the grain advantageously.
• Coincidence
  The condition of occupying the same place in space; as, the coincidence of circles, surfaces, etc.
• Cointense
  Equal in intensity or degree; as, the relations between 6 and 12, and 8 and 16, are cointense.
• Pistoled
  of Pistol
• Quarteroon
  A quadroon.
• Therefrom
  From this or that.
• Variously
  In various or different ways.
• THEREANENT
  Concerning that. [Scot.]
• Coincibency
  Coincidence.
• Cointension
  The condition of being of equal in intensity; -- applied to relations; as, 3:6 and 6:12 are relations of cointension.
• Quarterpace
  A platform of a staircase where the stair turns at a right angle only. See Halfpace.
• THEREBEFORETHEREBIFORN
  Before that time; beforehand. [Obs.] Many a winter therebiforn. Chaucer.
• Coincident
  Having coincidence; occupying the same place; contemporaneous; concurrent; -- followed by with.
• Countries
  of Country

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