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  • 1Mitre (disambiguation) — Mitre may refer to: Contents 1 Headdresses 2 Angled joints 3 Sailing 4 Places 5 Businesses …

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  • 2cut glass — cut glass, adj. glass ornamented or shaped by cutting or grinding with abrasive wheels. [1835 45] * * * Glassware characterized by a series of facets, or patterns, cut into its surface. A marked pattern is roughed out on a glass object with a… …

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  • 3The Rite of Constantinople (Byzantine Rite) —     The Rite of Constantinople     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Rite of Constantinople     (Also BYZANTINE RITE.)     The Liturgies, Divine Office, forms for the administration of sacraments and for various blessings, sacramentals, and exorcisms …

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  • 4Mitre 10 Dream Home — Genre Reality Show Created by Ninox Films (except 2007 series by TVNZ) Presented by Jayne Kiely Country of origin …

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  • 5Mitre box — A mitre box (US spelling, miter box ) is a woodworking tool used to guide a hand saw to make precise mitre cuts in a board. A home made manual miter sawing box. The most common form of a mitre box is a 3 sided box which is open at the top and the …

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  • 6mitre — /ˈmaɪtə / (say muytuh) noun 1. Ecclesiastical the ceremonial headdress of bishops and some other clergy. In the Western churches it takes the form of a tall cap with two distinctively shaped and separated sharp peaks and has two short ribbons… …

  • 7The Magdalen Reading — Rogier van der Weyden, The Magdalen Reading, 62.2 cm × 54.4 cm (24.5 in × 21.4 in). Date unknown but possibly 1435–38. Oil on oak panel. National Gallery, London. The Magdalen Reading is one of three surviving fragments of a large mid 15th… …

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  • 8The Whitechapel Murders (1888-91) — were a series of eleven unsolved brutal murders of women committed in Whitechapel, in the East End of London between 3 April 1888 and 13 February 1891. At various points all of them have been ascribed to the notorious, but elusive, individual… …

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  • 9Mitre — Miter Mi ter, Mitre Mi tre, n. [F. mitre, fr. L. mitra headband, turban, Gr. ?.] 1. A covering for the head, worn on solemn occasions by bishops and other church dignitaries. It has been made in many forms, the present form being a lofty cap with …

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  • 10mitre — mi·tre || maɪtÉ™(r) n. miter, official headdress of the bishop in the Western Church; office of bishop in the Western Church; headdress of the ancient Jewish High Priest; 90 degree angle formed by two pieces of wood that are cut on a diagonal… …

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