Memel

Definition: Memel

Memel

Noun

1. A city in western Lithuania on the Baltic Sea; formerly an important trading town of the Hanseatic League.

Domain	Definitions
Industry	In Spain and U. K. black or brown curried hide leather, heavily embossed, frequently used for a heavy boot upper. Source: European Union. (references)
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Synonym: Memel

Synonym: Klaipeda (n). (additional references)

Domain	Title
Books	Weder Maas noch Memel : Ansichten vom beschèadigten Deutschland (reference) (more book examples)
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Author	Date	Quotation
Treaty of Versailles	1919	The boundaries of East Prussia, with the reservations made in Section IX (East Prussia) of Part III, will be determined as follows: from a point on the coast of the Baltic Sea about 1 1/2 kilometres north of Probbernau church in a direction of about 159� East from true North: a line to be fixed on the ground for about 2 kilometres; thence in a straight line to the light at the bend of the Elbing Channel in approximately latitude 54� 19 1/2' North, longitude 19� 26' East of Greenwich; thence to the easternmost mouth of the Nogat River at a bearing of approximately 209� East from true North; thence up the course of the Nogat River to the point where the latter leaves the Vistula (Weichsel);thence up the principal channel of navigation of the Vistula, then the southern boundary of the Kreis of Marienwerder, then that of the Kreis of Rosenberg eastwards to the point where it meets the old boundary of East Prussia, thence the old boundary between East and West Prussia, then the boundary between the Kreise of Osterode and Neidenburg, then the course of the river Skottau downstream, then the course of the Neide upstream to a point situated about 5 kilometres west of Bialutten being the nearest point to the old frontier of Russia; thence in an easterly direction to a point immediately south of the intersection of the road Neidenburg-Mlava with the old frontier of Russia: a line to be fixed on the ground passing north of Bialutten; thence the old frontier of Russia to a point east of Schmalleningken, then the principal channel of navigation of the Niemen (Memel) downstream, then the Skierwieth arm of the delta to the Kurisches Haff; thence a straight line to the point where the eastern shore of the Kurische Nehrung meets the administrative boundary about 4 kilometres south-west of Nidden; thence this administrative boundary to the western shore of the Kurische Nehrung. (reference)
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"Memel" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Memel" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	80%	4	175,879
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	20%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	5	N/A

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-l-m-m"
	-1 letter: meme.
	-2 letters: eel, elm, eme, lee, mel, mem.
	-3 letters: el, em, me, mm.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-l-m-m"
	+1 letter: emblem.
	+2 letters: emblems, gemmule, melamed.
	+3 letters: embalmed, embalmer, emblemed, exemplum, gemmules, helmsmen, malemute, mameluke, mealtime, melamine, millieme, pommeled, pummeled.
	+4 letters: embalmers, embleming, emolument, gelsemium, glimmered, immensely, implement, lumbermen, malemutes, mamelukes, mealtimes, melamines, memorable, metaxylem, middlemen, milliemes, plummeted, pommelled, pummelled, semimetal, sommelier, trammeled.
	+5 letters: complement, embalmment, emblematic, emblements, emoluments, employment, flummeries, gamesomely, gelsemiums, hammerless, immersible, immortelle, impalement, implements, meddlesome, melanosome, mesodermal, metaxylems, mettlesome, millimeter, missilemen, neurilemma, semimetals, sommeliers, summerlike, trammelled.
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