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One at adolescence or manhood at 16-18 [sex researcher shows that this is the age a boy reaches his sexual activity peak and most sexually energetic. Seventeen also appears to be the age that the average male gets his fully mature erect penile length.
Straight and flat stretch of track upon which an engineer can safely make unusually high speed. Also parallel stretches of track of two competing railroads upon which rival trains race one another (contrary to company rules but much to the delight of enginemen, trainmen, and passengers, and perhaps to the secret delight of some officials)
temporary division line between North and South Vietnam established by the Geneva Accords of 1954. Pg. 520
A ruler with rollers which allows the user to make and/or determine parallel lines. It is used in chartwork, plotting and in relative velocity determination. Often made of brass. Also called a "Roller Ruler", but only by anyone that is not familiar with the ruler's actual purpose.
1 n someone who’s a little bit too knowledgeable about one subject. Generally a subject like seventeenth-century flower pots or steam trains, rather than athletic sexual positions or gun-fighting. Americans (and also Brits, as our languages merge ever closer) would call such a person a “geek.” It may originate with the fans of Radio Caroline, a U.K. offshore pirate radio station, whose fans had to don anoraks in order to visit the station. Alternatively, it may come from the most popular item of clothing worn by train-spotters. 2 n waterproof jacket (universal).
An imaginary circle on the surface of the Earth parallel to the plane of the equator.
Clutching two parallel lines together in your hands and pressing them together, using the friction between the lines to hold them fast. When the ship's berthing hawsers are doubled-up, the second hawser is "married" to the first while a seaman takes turns on the bollard.
Parallel parking is American slang for sexual intercourse.
n little reflectors mounted in the centre of the road, amid the white lines. When you’re driving along at night your headlights reflect in them to show where the road goes. When you’re driving like a screaming banshee they gently bounce the car up and down in order to unsettle it, causing you subsequently to lose traction and crash the rented 1.3-litre VW Polo through a fence and into a yard. Everything goes black — your senses are dead but for the faint smell of petrol, and the dim glow of a light coming on in the farmhouse. Somewhere in the distance a big dog barks. As you slowly regain consciousness, you find that you’re in a soft bed, surrounded by candles and with a faint whiff of incense drifting on the breeze from the open window. You see a familiar face peering down at you — could it be Stinky Potter, from down by the cottages? Wasn’t that corner just about where they found poor old Danny’s motorbike? And how does this guy know your name? If you try to run, roll the dice and turn to page seventeen. If you choose to kiss the old man, turn to page twelve.
A printed compass rose with polar coordinates that are used, together with parallel rulers and dividers, to solve problems of relative movement of ships, such as closest point of approach and intercept course calculation.
Short for "favorite". A teenage girl's term. Used in teen fan magazines and magazines for teen girls (i.e. "Seventeen", "'Teen", etc.)
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Constituting or being one of seventeen equal parts into which anything is divided.
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The next in order after the sixteenth; one coming after sixteen others.
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One more than sixteen; ten and seven added; as, seventeen years.
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Discovered or described by C. V. Schneider, a German anatomist of the seventeenth century.
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One next in order after the sixty-ninth.
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One of a society of mystics of the seventeenth century, -- called also the Family of Love.
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The number greater by a unit than seventeen; eighteen units or objects.
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An interval of two octaves and a third.
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The quotient of a unit divided by seventy; one of seventy equal parts or fractions.
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Next in order after the seventeenth.
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A small portable organ, played with one hand, the bellows being worked with the other, -- used in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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Pertaining to, or invented by, Christian Huyghens, a Dutch astronomer of the seventeenth century; as, the Huyghenian telescope.
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The number greater by one than sixteen; the sum of ten and seven; seventeen units or objects.
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Next in order after the sixty-ninth; as, a man in the seventieth year of his age.
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One of a sect of mystics originated in the seventeenth century by Molinos, a Spanish priest living in Rome. See Quietism.
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Constituting or being one of seventy equal parts.
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Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century.
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A symbol denoting seventeen units, as 17, or xvii.
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Next in order after the sixteenth; coming after sixteen others.
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The quotient of a unit divided by seventeen; one of seventeen equal parts or divisions of one whole.
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