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kams
(gcide) | Eschar \Es"char\ ([e^]s"k[~e]r or [e^]s"k[aum]r), n. [Ir.]
(Geol.)
In Ireland, one of the continuous mounds or ridges of
gravelly and sandy drift which extend for many miles over the
surface of the country, deposited by streams in meltwater
channels under glaciers. Similar ridges in Scotland are
called kames or kams. The spelling form esker is now
the most commonly used, and the term is applied in geology to
similar ridges created by glaciers anywhere in the world.
Eskers vary in size and extent, but can be 100 feet high and
up to 100 miles long. [Written also eskar and esker.]
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kamsin
(gcide) | Samiel \Sa"mi*el\ (?; 277), n. [Turk. sam-yeli; Ar. samm poison
+ Turk. yel wind. Cf. Simoom.]
A hot and destructive wind that sometimes blows, in Turkey,
from the desert. It is identical with the simoom of Arabia
and the kamsin of Syria.
[1913 Webster]Sirocco \Si*roc"co\ (s[i^]*r[o^]k"k[-o]), n.; pl. Siroccos
(s[i^]*r[o^]k"k[=o]z). [It. sirocco, scirocco, Ar. shorug,
fr. sharq the rising of the sun, the east, fr, sharaca to
rise as the sun. Cf. Saracen.]
1. An oppressive, relaxing wind from the Libyan deserts,
chiefly experienced in Italy, Malta, and Sicily.
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2. In general, any hot dry wind of cyclonic origin, blowing
from arid or heated regions, including the desert wind of
Southern California, the harmattan of the west coasts of
Africa, the hot winds of Kansas and Texas, the kamsin of
Egypt, the leste of the Madeira Islands, and the
leveche of Spain.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]Kamsin \Kam*sin"\, Khamsin \Kham*sin"\, n. [Ar. khams[imac]n,
fr. khams[=u]n, oblique case khams[imac]n, fifty; -- so
called because it blows for about fifty days, from April till
June.]
A hot southwesterly wind in Egypt, coming from the Sahara.
[Written also Khamseen.]
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Kamsin
(gcide) | Samiel \Sa"mi*el\ (?; 277), n. [Turk. sam-yeli; Ar. samm poison
+ Turk. yel wind. Cf. Simoom.]
A hot and destructive wind that sometimes blows, in Turkey,
from the desert. It is identical with the simoom of Arabia
and the kamsin of Syria.
[1913 Webster]Sirocco \Si*roc"co\ (s[i^]*r[o^]k"k[-o]), n.; pl. Siroccos
(s[i^]*r[o^]k"k[=o]z). [It. sirocco, scirocco, Ar. shorug,
fr. sharq the rising of the sun, the east, fr, sharaca to
rise as the sun. Cf. Saracen.]
1. An oppressive, relaxing wind from the Libyan deserts,
chiefly experienced in Italy, Malta, and Sicily.
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2. In general, any hot dry wind of cyclonic origin, blowing
from arid or heated regions, including the desert wind of
Southern California, the harmattan of the west coasts of
Africa, the hot winds of Kansas and Texas, the kamsin of
Egypt, the leste of the Madeira Islands, and the
leveche of Spain.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]Kamsin \Kam*sin"\, Khamsin \Kham*sin"\, n. [Ar. khams[imac]n,
fr. khams[=u]n, oblique case khams[imac]n, fifty; -- so
called because it blows for about fifty days, from April till
June.]
A hot southwesterly wind in Egypt, coming from the Sahara.
[Written also Khamseen.]
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