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Home Dictionary Name: fell onFellness
The quality or state of being fell or cruel fierce barbarity...
Felling of trees
Felling of trees, means cutting, girdling, pollarding, uprooting or damaging a tree in any manner but shall not include lopping off of a limb of tree for such purposes as may be prescribed, The West Bengal Tress (Protection and Conservation in Non-forest Areas) Act, 2006, s. 3(3)....
Feller
One who or that which fells knocks or cuts down a machine for felling trees...
Roman calendar
The calendar of the ancient Romans from which our modern calendars are derived It is said to have consisted originally of ten months Martius Aprilis Maius Junius Quintilis Sextilis September October November and December having a total of 304 days Numa added two months Januarius at the beginning of the year and Februarius at the end making in all 355 days He also ordered an intercalary month Mercedinus to be inserted every second year Later the order of the months was changed so that January should come before February Through abuse of power by the pontiffs to whose care it was committed this calendar fell into confusion It was replaced by the Julian calendar In designating the days of the month the Romans reckoned backward from three fixed points the calends the nones and the ides The calends were always the first day of the month The ides fell on the 15th in March May July Quintilis and October and on the 13th in other months The nones came on the eighth day the ninth counting the id...
Timber
Timber, has an enlarged or restricted sense, according to the connection in which it is employed, and may refer to standing trees or wood suitable for the manufacture of lumber to be used for building and allied purposes, Corpus Juris Secundum, Vol. 54, p. 1.Timber, may be used in a restricted as well as enlarged sense. In the restricted sense it means specified trees like oak, ash, elm, teace, blackwood, ebony etc. and in the enlarged sense it means woods suitable for building, furniture, and carpentry etc., and includes standing trees. Its true meaning has to be determined from the context in which it is employed, Divisional Forest Officer v. Tata Finlay Ltd., AIR 2001 SC 2672. [See also Kerala Grants and Leases (Modification of Rights) Act, 1980, s. 4]Means at common law oak, ash and elm are timber if over twenty years old, but not so old as to have unusable wood in them. Other trees may be timber by the custom of the country. Thus beech is timber by the custom of Buckinghamshire an...
Butcherly
Like a butcher without compunction savage bloody inhuman fell...
Ceduous
Fit to be felled...
Compluvium
A space left unroofed over the court of a Roman dwelling through which the rain fell into the impluvium or cistern...
Cutting
The act or process of making an incision or of severing felling shaping etc...
Decoration Day
a day May 30 originally appointed for decorating with flowers the graves of the Union soldiers and sailors who fell in the Civil War in the United States now called Memorial Day and established as the last Monday in May and designated as a day for commemorating those who died in all wars of the United States...
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