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TALUS (Lat. for the " ankle-bone ")

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 386 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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TALUS (Lat. for the " ankle-bone ")

TALUS (See also:
LAT
Lat. for the " See also:
ANKLE
ankle-See also:
BONE (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages, in many of which it is confined to the shank of the leg, as in the German Bein)
BONE, HENRY (1755-1834)
bone ") , in See also:

ARCHITECTURE (Lat. architectura, from the Gr. ap)(LTEKrwv, a master-builder)

architecture, the slope of an See also:

EMBANKMENT

embankment See also:

wall, which is thicker at the bottom than at the See also:

TOP (cf. Dan. top, Ger. Topf, also meaning pot)

top, to resist the pressure of the See also:

earth behind it .

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