to turn up late
111balance — [13] The underlying etymological meaning of balance is of a weighing apparatus with ‘two pans’ for holding things. In Latin this was a lībra bilanx, literally ‘scales with two pans’ – bilanx being compounded from bi ‘two’ and lanx ‘plate, pan’.… …
112porridge — /ˈpɒrɪdʒ / (say porij) noun 1. a breakfast dish, originating in Scotland, consisting of oatmeal or the like with hot water or milk. 2. → congee2. –phrase 3. stir the porridge, Colloquial (taboo) (of a man) to take one s turn relatively late in… …
113Quaternary extinction event — Late Pleistocene landscape of northern Eurasia The Quaternary period saw the extinctions of numerous predominantly larger, especially megafaunal, species, many of which occurred during the transition from the Pleistocene to the Holocene epoch.… …
114Prehistoric Sweden — Late Palaeolithic and Mesolithic, 12,000 4,000 BC= The Pleistocene glaciations scoured the landscape clean and covered much of it in deep quaternary sediments. Therefore no undisputed Early or Middle Palaeolithic sites or finds are known from… …
115turnpike — turn•pike [[t]ˈtɜrnˌpaɪk[/t]] n. 1) trs a high speed highway, esp. one maintained by tolls 2) trs (formerly) a barrier set across such a highway to stop passage until a toll has been paid • Etymology: 1375–1425; late ME turnepike road barrier (in …
116Hrafnkel’s Saga — (late 13th century) The Saga of Hrafnkel, the priest of Frey, is one of the best known of the Old Icelandic family sagas dealing, as most such sagas, with a feud. Hrafnkel’s Saga is unusual in its directness and its simple, straightforward… …
117Nyau — Late 20th century wood, paint, feathers, metal and wool mask from the Chewa people in Malawi, at the British Museum Nyau (also: Nyao meaning mask[1] or initiation) is a secret society of the Chewa, a tribe of the Bantu pe …
118international relations — a branch of political science dealing with the relations between nations. [1970 75] * * * Study of the relations of states with each other and with international organizations and certain subnational entities (e.g., bureaucracies and political… …
119china — /chuy neuh/, n. 1. a translucent ceramic material, biscuit fired at a high temperature, its glaze fired at a low temperature. 2. any porcelain ware. 3. plates, cups, saucers, etc., collectively. 4. figurines made of porcelain or ceramic material …
120China — /chuy neuh/, n. 1. People s Republic of, a country in E Asia. 1,221,591,778; 3,691,502 sq. mi. (9,560,990 sq. km). Cap.: Beijing. 2. Republic of. Also called Nationalist China. a republic consisting mainly of the island of Taiwan off the SE coast …
