COLURE

Definition: COLURE

COLURE

Noun

1. One of two great circles intersecting at right angles in the poles of the equator. One of them passes through the equinoctial points, and hence is denominated the equinoctial colure; the other intersects the equator at the distance of 90� from the former, and is called the solstitial colure.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "COLURE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Colure \Co*lure"\, noun; plural Colures. [French expression colure, from Latin expression coluri, plural, from the Greek expression ko`loyros dock-tailed, a"i ko`loyroi (sc. grammai` lines) the colures; from ko`los docked, stunted o'yra` tail. So named because part is always beneath the horizon.]. (Websters 1913)

Expression: COLURE

Derivations & Misspellings: COLURE

Derivations
	Words beginning with "COLURE": colures. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"COLURE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Celauro, celere, cloured, clours, clure, Coelorum, coelute, coleer, colere, coleur, Coliupe, Colora, Colorama, colorap, colorer, colourer, Colquiri, colture, colume, Colutea, Colyear, coture, Coubre, couler, coulure, coure, courre, Cukura, culrure, holburne, Kouloura, ocure, volure. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Anagrams: COLURE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-l-o-r-u"
	-1 letter: ceorl, clour, cruel, lucre, ulcer.
	-2 letters: cero, clue, cole, core, cure, curl, ecru, euro, lore, lour, luce, lure, orle, role, roue, rule.
	-3 letters: cel, col, cor, cue, cur, ecu, leu, ole, orc, ore, our, rec, roc, roe, rue.
	-4 letters: el, er, lo, oe, or, re.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-l-o-r-u"
	+1 letter: closure, cloture, cloured, clouter, colures, coruler, coulter, coupler.
	+2 letters: carousel, closured, closures, clotured, clotures, cloudier, clouters, colluder, coloured, colourer, corulers, coulters, couplers, crousely, decolour, forceful, occulter, opercula, opercule, recouple, sclerous, sloucher, ulcerous.
	+3 letters: caroluses, carousels, carrousel, chondrule, clamoured, cocklebur, coculture, colluders, colourers, colubrine, concluder, consulter, corpulent, corpuscle, counselor, courtlier, credulous, decolours, dulcimore, enclosure, flouncier, fluoresce, housecarl, inclosure, involucre, larcenous, lecherous, liquorice, molecular, nucleator, nucleolar, obscurely, occulters, opercular, opercules, operculum, overcloud, peculator, pronuclei, reclusion, recoupled, recouples, scoundrel, slouchers, slouchier, supercoil, supercool, uncolored, uncoupler, undercool, urceolate, ureotelic.
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