- 1. n. That part of an elliptical or many-centered arch which has the shorter radius and immediately adjoins the impost. Source: opted
- 2. n. An association; a league or confederacy. Source: opted
- 3. That part of an elliptical or many-centered arch which has the shorter radius and immediately adjoins the impost. An association; a league or confederacy. Hanse towns (Hist.), certain commercial cities in Germany which associated themselves for the protection and enlarging of their commerce. The confederacy, called also Hansa and Hanseatic league, held its first diet in 1260, and was maintained for nearly four hundred years. At one time the league comprised eighty-five cities. Its remnants, Lübeck, Hamburg, and Bremen, are free cities, and are still frequently called Hanse towns. Source: webster
- 4. That part of an elliptical or many-centered arch which has theshorter radius and immediately adjoins the impost. Source: adambom
- 5. n. That part of an elliptical or many-centered arch which has the shorter radius and immediately adjoins the impost. n. An association; a league or confederacy. Source: ecdict
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