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Definition of Arshines
1. arshine [n] - See also: arshine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Arshines
| arsheen arsheens arshin arshine arshines (current term) arshins arsier arsiest arsindole arsindoles | arsindolizine arsindolizines arsine arsine oxide arsine oxides arsinediyl arsinediyls arsines arsing |
Literary usage of Arshines
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Russia Trader's Assistant, Containing Information Concerning Russian by Charles Clark, trader Charles Clark (1841)
"Invoice of 30 bales of crash, containing 2000 pieces or 30000 arshines, ...
720 Receiving and shipping, at 115 со. per 1000 arshines „ 34 50 Mats, cords, ..."
2. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1886)
"NOTES OF A JOURNEY IN AND DARW.A plastered over with this material. The walls
are six arshines (14 feet) high by 2e (5| feet) thick ..."
3. A Russian Province of the North by Aleksandr Platonovich Engelhardt, Henry Cooke (1899)
"to 2 arshines, or 3^ to 4-* ft., in length, which yields from ... of fat; the
Greenland seal (Phoca Groenlandica) from 2 to 2i arshines, or from 4| to 5^ ..."
4. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1847)
"6d. per yard ;) the length of the pieces 40 to 45 arshines, or 31 to 35 yards;
... They are manufactured in pieces of about 50 arshines m length ( yards. ..."
5. Among Horses in Russia by Matthew Horace Hayes (1900)
"... according to the difference of the corps, be under two arshines two ...
or two arshines. In some of the cuirassier regiments we may see horses ..."
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