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Neve  n.  (Geol.) The upper part of a glacier, above the limit of perpetual snow. See Glacier.






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"Neve" Quotes from Famous Books



... neve) is sometimes used in a second Purpose Clause when ut stands in the first, and, after the Augustan era, even when the first clause is introduced ...
— New Latin Grammar • Charles E. Bennett

... is almi des ire, Mimis tres i neve require, Alo veri findit a gestis, His miseri ne ...
— The Moorland Cottage • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

... terra Italia imperare solent]-; in like manner at the 29th line of the same -peregrinus- is distinguished from the -Latinus-, and in the decree of the senate as to the Bacchanalia in 568 the expression is used: -ne quis ceivis Romanus neve nominis Latini neve socium quisquam-. But in common use very frequently the second or third of these three subdivisions is omitted, and along with the Romans sometimes only those Latini nominis are mentioned, sometimes only the -socii- (Weissenborn on Liv. xxii. 50, 6), while there is no difference ...
— The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) • Theodor Mommsen

... hguor eht nehw neve, Skaerc kao tuots eht nehw neve, Woleb ssarg eht ni terewolf eht, Skaerw ...
— Peter the Priest • Mr Jkai

... extensive snowbeds remain unmelted at but little above 10,000 feet. The foot of the stupendous glacier filling the broad head of the Thlonok is certainly not below 14,000 feet; though being continuous with the perpetual snow (or neve) of the summit of Kinchinjunga, it must have 14,000 feet of ice, in perpendicular height, to urge ...
— Himalayan Journals (Complete) • J. D. Hooker



Words linked to "Neve" :   ice, glacier



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