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Octave
- noun - a feast day and the seven days following it
- a musical interval of eight tones
- a rhythmic group of eight lines of verse
- Eight line poem
Octavo
- noun - the size of a book whose pages are made by folding a sheet of paper three times to form eight leaves
Sheave
- - A wheel having a groove in the rim for a rope to work in, and set in a block, mast, or the like; the wheel of a pulley.
Sleave
- - The knotted or entangled part of silk or thread. (b) Silk not yet twisted; floss; -- called also sleave silk.
Theave
- - A ewe lamb of the first year; also, a sheep three years old.
Thrave
- - Twenty-four (in some places, twelve) sheaves of wheat; a shock, or stook.
Vltava
- unknown - river in the czech republic
Zouave
- - One of an active and hardy body of soldiers in the French service, originally Arabs, but now composed of Frenchmen who wear the Arab dress. (b) Hence, one of a body of soldiers who adopt the dress and drill of the Zouaves, as was done by a number of volunteer regiments in the army of the United States in the Civil War, 1861-65.