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American mathematician (1927–2016)
Albert Ross Eckler Jr. (August 29, 1927 – December 9, 2016) was an American logologist, statistician, and author, the son of statistician A. Ross Eckler. He
A._Ross_Eckler_Jr.
American mathematician
Albert Ross Eckler (May 22, 1901 – March 14, 1991) served as Deputy Director of the United States Census Bureau from 1949 to 1965, and its Director from
A._Ross_Eckler
Surname list
Eckler is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: A. Ross Eckler (1901–1991), director of the U.S. Census Bureau A. Ross Eckler Jr. (born
Eckler
British recreational mathematician (1893–1977)
League. In a 1991 profile of Mercer in Word Ways, A. Ross Eckler Jr. wrote that Mercer had stressed he was not merely a "'drome man" and had "a number of
Leigh_Mercer
Magazine on recreational linguistics, logology and word play
stepped down when Greenwood Periodicals dropped the publication. A. Ross Eckler Jr., a statistician at Bell Labs, became editor until 2006, when he was
Word_Ways
Unincorporated community in California, United States
Retrieved December 12, 2015. Eckler, A. Ross (February 1996). "Zzyzx". Word Ways. 29 (1). Morristown, NJ: A. Ross Eckler: 22–24. ISSN 0043-7980. Archived
Zzyzx,_California
Last surviving American Revolutionary War soldier (1759–1869)
rolls, and research by A. Ross Eckler Jr. in the 1970s indicated that Fruits was 17 years younger than he claimed, and was not a veteran of the Revolution
Daniel_F._Bakeman
something as worthless"; its usage has been recorded as far back as 1741. Ross Eckler has noted that most of the longest English words are not likely to occur
Longest_word_in_English
Elinor Miller, A Banner Handbook for Homeschoolers (2009), p. 76. Joel Sherzer, Speech Play and Verbal Art (2010), p. 71. A. Ross Eckler: Leigh Mercer
List of English palindromic phrases
List_of_English_palindromic_phrases
Person who turned 110 years old
of Records, used the term in association with age claims researcher A. Ross Eckler Jr. in 1976, and the term was further popularised in 1991 by William
Supercentenarian
1967 book by Dmitri Borgmann
Bafflers have proved a fruitful source of logological research. Many of them have been further investigated and developed by A. Ross Eckler, Jr.; Philip M.
Beyond_Language
Topics referred to by the same term
(surname) Faro, pen name of editors Faith and A. Ross Eckler Jr. (1927–2016) Fábrica de Artes y Oficios Oriente, a cultural center and training facility in
Faro
Oldest puzzlers' organization in the world
"modern" puzzling era with the promotional efforts of Dmitri Borgmann, Ross Eckler, and others. Many of the leading puzzle editors and constructors in America
National_Puzzlers'_League
American economist (1867–1947)
general equilibrium. He was also a pioneer in the rigorous study of intertemporal choice in markets, which led him to develop a theory of capital and interest
Irving_Fisher
American statistician
his A.B. from Princeton University and the Ph.D. from Cornell University in mathematics. In statistics education, David S. Moore is the author of a series
David_S._Moore
American statistical quality control pioneer (1891-1967)
cycle. W. Edwards Deming said of him: As a statistician, he was, like so many of the rest of us, self-taught, on a good background of physics and mathematics
Walter_A._Shewhart
Word puzzle
the -gry puzzle, including a list of 51 words ending in -gry. Scheetz was invited to write this article by A. Ross Eckler, editor of Word Ways. Merriam-Webster:
-gry_puzzle
American supercentenarian
indeed reach age 113 in 1928". An earlier article, published in 1980, by A. Ross Eckler had reached the same conclusion. Young also noted Filkins' distinction
Delina_Filkins
Activity that encompasses a wide variety of word games and wordplay
Dmitri Borgmann to refer to recreational linguistics. Dmitri Borgmann A. Ross Eckler, Jr. Willard R. Espy Jeremiah Farrell Martin Gardner Mike Keith Douglas
Logology_(linguistics)
German-American author and logologist (1927–1985)
73. Eckler, Jr., A. Ross (February 2013). "Damn mad boring trifler?". Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics. 46 (1): 35–42. Dmitri A. Borgmann
Dmitri_Borgmann
Fictitious encyclopedia entry
but they haven't the slightest resemblance to 'zzxjoanw' or 'shaw'". Ross Eckler picked up Cohen's critique in his 1996 book Making the Alphabet Dance
Zzxjoanw
American economist and statistician (1901–1985)
economic production in a state by a single measure. Simon Kuznets was born in 1901 in Pinsk, Russian Empire, in modern Belarus, to a Lithuanian-Jewish family
Simon_Kuznets
Word, phrase or sentence with no repeated letter
Dance, Ross Eckler reports the word "subdermatoglyphic" (17 letters) can be found in an article by Lowell Goldsmith called Chaos: To See a World in a Grain
Heterogram_(literature)
followed by U category of words in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Eckler, A. Ross (1976). "Must You Join the Queue?". Word Ways. 9 (2): 113–115. Archived
List of English words containing Q not followed by U
List_of_English_words_containing_Q_not_followed_by_U
American professional organization of statisticians
statistics across many academic areas and applications. The association publishes a variety of journals and sponsors several international conferences every year
American Statistical Association
American_Statistical_Association
British statistician
George Edward Pelham Box FRS (18 October 1919 – 28 March 2013) was a British statistician, who worked in the areas of quality control, time-series analysis
George_E._P._Box
American social psychologist (1903–1981)
developing the Likert scale, a psychometrically sound scale based on responses to multiple questions. The scale has become a method to measure people's
Rensis_Likert
Chief administrator of the United States Census Bureau
held the position from a year before the census until the final tabulations had been published. After the Census Office became a permanent agency in 1902
Director of the United States Census Bureau
Director_of_the_United_States_Census_Bureau
American mathematician (1880–1949)
choice as a statistician at Metropolitan Life Insurance. One of Lotka's earliest publications, in 1912, proposed a solution to Ronald Ross's second malaria
Alfred_J._Lotka
American statistician (1900–1978)
Ames where she studied mathematics and statistics and was awarded a B.S. in 1929 and a Master's degree in statistics in 1931. From 1931 to 1933 Cox undertook
Gertrude_Mary_Cox
Washington, D.C. to become a statistician with the United States Public Health Service from 1917 to 1920. In 1917 he was elected as a Fellow of the American
Willford_I._King
Dusart Bernard Dwork Cynthia Dwork Nira Dyn Freeman Dyson Peter Eades A. Ross Eckler Jr. Katsuya Eda Herbert Edelsbrunner Jack Edmonds Michelle Effros Bradley
List of people by Erdős number
List_of_people_by_Erdős_number
University Research Foundation. OCLC 878346994.; cited in PMC (1978). Albert Ross Eckler (ed.). "Review: English monosyllables". Word Ways. 11–12. Indianapolis:
List of the longest English words with one syllable
List_of_the_longest_English_words_with_one_syllable
German-American statistician
statistics. He is also notable for his promotion of scientific racism, and is a vocal opponent of government backed health insurance and social welfare. Hoffman
Frederick_Ludwig_Hoffman
Australian statistician and academic
Statistical Association, and the International Biometric Society, one of a handful of people to have led both organizations. She earned her Bachelor
Lynne_Billard
American statistician (1879–1946)
(September 15, 1879 – October 29, 1946) was an American statistician. He played a central role in developing and analyzing large-scale statistical projects
Leonard_Porter_Ayres
According to the association's bylaws, the president is an officer, and a member of the board of directors and of the executive committee. Elections
List of presidents of the American Statistical Association
List_of_presidents_of_the_American_Statistical_Association
American economist (1912–1998)
Minnesota, Class of 1932, where he was a member of Chi Phi fraternity. After receiving his degree in psychology and a year of graduate work at the University
W._Allen_Wallis
American statistician
Helen Mary Walker (December 1, 1891 – January 15, 1983) was a statistician and prominent educational researcher, and the first female president of the
Helen_M._Walker
American statistician
forecast issues across a wide variety of fields. Since the start of her academic career, a focus of her research has sought a deeper understanding of
Kathy_Ensor
Word composed of a single letter
Gone Wild", New York Times, 9 December 2005. Conley 2005. A. Ross Eckler, "One-Letter Words: a Dictionary", Word Ways, vol. 45, no 3, 2012. Craig Conley
One-letter_word
American statistician
Jessica Utts (born 1952) is a statistics professor at the University of California, Irvine and a parapsychologist. She is known for her textbooks on statistics
Jessica_Utts
American mathematician
a congregational minister, and Anne Holmes Goodenow. He was graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover, in 1880, from Amherst College in 1884 with an A
Walter_Francis_Willcox
American statistician
at Cameron University, graduating in 1989 with a double major in mathematics and physics. She earned a master's degree in aerospace engineering at George
Wendy_L._Martinez
American mathematician
Statistical Association are named for him. Born in Memphis, Tennessee, into a Presbyterian family which was prominent socially and involved with southern
George_W._Snedecor
Charles Winsor R. G. D. Allen Harald Cramér Harold F. Dorn A. Ross Eckler Raymond J. Jessen A. D. H. Kaplan Maurice Kendall Alexander M. Mood Oskar Morgenstern
List of fellows of the American Statistical Association
List_of_fellows_of_the_American_Statistical_Association
American mathematician and statistician (1919–2005)
with W. Allen Wallis), a widely used nonparametric statistical method. Kruskal was born to a Jewish family in New York City to a successful fur wholesaler
William_Kruskal
American mathematician (1906–1964)
practical applications. Wilks was born in Little Elm, Texas and raised on a farm. He studied Industrial Arts at the North Texas State Teachers College
Samuel_S._Wilks
American statistician (1907–1986)
American statistician. He earned a bachelor's of art degree in mathematics at the University of Florida in 1927, a master's of art degree in mathematics
T._A._Bancroft
Canadian-American statistician (1923-2001)
Ralph Allan Bradley (November 28, 1923 – October 30, 2001) was a Canadian-American statistician and statistics educator, whose research lay in the fields
Ralph_A._Bradley
American biologist (1879–1940)
Hopkins University in Baltimore. Pearl was a prolific writer of academic books, papers and articles, as well as a committed populariser and communicator of
Raymond_Pearl
German-American statistician (1912–1980)
Politz-Simmons Estimator, which is a method for dealing with bias due to "not at home" entries in survey sampling. Hartley-Ross Estimator, which aims to estimate
Herman_Otto_Hartley
American sociologist (1886–1959)
Tallahassee, Florida. He was also a statistician and an educator. Ogburn received his B.A. degree from Mercer University and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia
William_Fielding_Ogburn
American statistician (born 1957)
from Holy Cross of San Antonio, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics from Trinity University and a Master of Arts in statistics from the University
Robert_Santos
American statistician (1923–2015)
Reagan. She left the Bureau in 1991 and joined the Urban Institute as a Senior Fellow, a position she held until 1999. She was also appointed as the Chair
Janet_L._Norwood
Sentence composed of homonyms
Archived from the original on 22 April 2020. Retrieved 23 September 2016. Eckler, A. Ross Jr. (November 2005). "The Borgmann Apocrypha". Word Ways: The Journal
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
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Lawrence Demmy, 85, British ice dancer, world champion 1952–1955. A. Ross Eckler Jr., 89, American logologist, statistician, and author. Alejandro González
Deaths_in_December_2016
American mathematician (1879–1964)
Samuelson. Wilson had a distinguished academic career at Yale and MIT, followed by a long and distinguished period of service as a civilian employee of
Edwin_Bidwell_Wilson
American economist (1874–1948)
the second child and oldest son of a Civil War army doctor turned farmer. In a family with seven children and a disabled father with an appetite for
Wesley_Clair_Mitchell
American statistician (1937–2021)
Administration (FDA) where he was director of the division of biostatistics. He was a fellow and former president of the American Statistical Association (ASA)
Peter_A._Lachenbruch
American statistician
reports on child labor, illiteracy, marriage and divorce, women at work, and a report for the Immigration Commission on occupations of immigrants. He was
Joseph_Adna_Hill
American economist (1876-1929)
epidemic. He was born in Kenton, Ohio. As documented in a 1995 biography by Charles Blitch, Young was a brilliant student, graduating from Hiram College in
Allyn_Abbott_Young
American statistician (1925–2004)
University of Chicago and his MSc from the University of Michigan. He earned a PhD in statistics from Columbia University in 1954 where he studied under
I._Richard_Savage
American mathematician
Bayesian inference. He played a role in the early development of input-output analysis and linear programming. Cornfield played a crucial role in establishing
Jerome_Cornfield
American statistician
subdivision of Arizona State involving university research. Morton is also a professor in the College of Health Solutions and the School of Mathematical
Sally_C._Morton
American physician
elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1854. Jarvis made a sanitary survey of Massachusetts, by order of the government, and published a report
Edward_Jarvis_(physician)
American civil servant and economist
Ireland in 1850. Neill graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1897 with a doctorate in economics and politics. He was appointed the United States Commissioner
Charles_P._Neill
American mathematician (1929–1997)
fitting nonlinear chemical models to laboratory data. In 1975 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. As manager of the DuPont Applied
Donald_Marquardt
American statistician (died 2024)
the daughter of an elementary school teacher and a telephone company executive. She received a B.A. in sociology from Wellesley College. Her first post-college
Katherine_Wallman
American statistician
Sallie Keller–McNulty) is a statistician and a former president of the American Statistical Association (2006). She is currently a Distinguished Professor
Sallie_Ann_Keller
American statistician
an American statistician. Nussbaum earned a bachelor's degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a master's and doctorate from George Washington
Barry_D._Nussbaum
American economist
earned a Ph.D. there in 1926. It became part of the Brookings Institution in 1927. Lubin's book Miners' Wages and the Cost of Coal was accepted as a dissertation
Isador_Lubin
American political scientist
Minneapolis, Minnesota, and earned a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Minnesota in 1935. He later earned a master's degree from the
Richard_M._Scammon
American statistician
problems growing out of the heterogeneous commingling of races" which "has been a powerful influence in the rapid disappearance of the Puritanical outlook upon
S._N._D._North
American economist (1897–1974)
of the League of Nations and served as a minister for economic warfare in London. In 1935 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association
Winfield_W._Riefler
2003) August 26 – Sam Massell, American businessman (d. 2022) August 29 A. Ross Eckler Jr., American logologist, statistician and author (d. 2016) Jimmy C
1927_in_the_United_States
American econometrician (1915-2003)
(April 20, 1915 – February 19, 2003) was an American econometrician. He was a Professor of Statistics at North Carolina State University from 1941 to 1966
Richard_Loree_Anderson
American economist, statistician, journalist and educator
Army. As a prolific author and the third president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) until his death in 1897, Walker was a leading political
Francis_Amasa_Walker
American market researcher (born 1934)
He is a Past President of the American Statistical Association, and served twice as head of the US Census Bureau (the only to be appointed by a President
Vincent_Barabba
American mathematician (1937–2022)
connected with Martin Gardner. In 2006 Farrell and his wife took over from A. Ross Eckler Jr. as editors and publishers of the quarterly publication Word Ways:
Jeremiah_Farrell
American statistician (1916–2006)
Scholia has a profile for Frederick Mosteller (Q735455). Charles Frederick Mosteller (December 24, 1916 – July 23, 2006) was an American mathematician
Frederick_Mosteller
President of Johns Hopkins University
New Hampshire, the son of Jason Reed, a millwright and farmer, and Louella Coffin Reed. He had a long career as a research scientist in biostatistics and
Lowell_Reed
County, Manchester, and Fort Dodge. Roberts began a career in the newspaper industry by working as a printer's apprentice at the Fort Dodge Times, and
George_E._Roberts
American economist and statistician
University of Iowa and studied in Paris, he was chiefly self-taught. He began as a journalist; at the age of 20, he was editor of the Council Bluffs Nonparell
Carl_Snyder
American statistician
Statistical Association in 2011. Scheuren is a vice president of the National Opinion Research Center. Scheuren was a coauthor, with Thomas Herzog and William
Fritz_Scheuren
American mathematician (1913–1994)
Eisenhart was born in Rochester, New York as the son of Luther Eisenhart, a prominent mathematician in his own right. He spent his childhood in Princeton
Churchill_Eisenhart
American mathematician
president of the American Statistical Association in 1994. A Data-Based Approach to Statistics (1994) A Data-Based Approach to Statistics: Concise Version (1995)
Ronald_L._Iman
American statistician (1935–2023)
Association in 1987. Bailar retired from the census in 1988, in part as a protest against a politically motivated decision to avoid adjusting the 1990 census
Barbara_Bailar
American economist (born 1871)
States Census Bureau from 1909-1913 under President William Howard Taft, and a chief economist for the Department of Commerce. He also taught at Harvard
Edward_Dana_Durand
American statistician
Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri, with a degree in divinity. Most of his later life, he spent in public service as a government employee for the U.S. Department
John_Koren
Hungarian-American statistician and survey methodologist
Leslie Kish (born László Kiss, July 27, 1910 – October 7, 2000) was a Hungarian-American statistician and survey methodologist. Kish emigrated with his
Leslie_Kish
American economist (1878–1937)
economist. He was an assistant professor of economics at Dartmouth College, and a professor of economics at Colorado College and Harvard University. He was
Warren_M._Persons
American statistician (1923–2022)
December 6, 2022) was a German-born American statistician, university professor, and widely published author. Growing up in Germany, he was a classmate of Henry
John_Neter
American physician (1783–1854)
was president of the American Statistical Association from 1846 to 1851. A graduate of Dartmouth College, he provided funding for its Shattuck Observatory
George_Cheyne_Shattuck_Sr.
American statistician
(2004) and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (1987–1988). He is a past editor (for theory and methods) of the Journal of the American Statistical
Bradley_Efron
British-American statistician
William Gemmell Cochran (15 July 1909 – 29 March 1980) was a prominent statistician. He was born in Scotland but spent most of his life in the United
William_Gemmell_Cochran
American statistician
Mary Ellen Johnston Bock is a retired American statistician, now a professor emeritus at Purdue University after becoming the first female full professor
Mary_Ellen_Bock
American economist and statistician
Zellner not only provided many applications of Bayesian analysis but also a new information-theoretic derivation of information processing rules that
Arnold_Zellner
American statistician
statistician, originally from India. She works at the RAND Corporation as a senior statistician, data scientist, and head of the statistics group; she
Bonnie_Ghosh-Dastidar
American biostatistician
biostatistics research at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and a former president of the American Statistical Association. Geller studied mathematics
Nancy_Geller
A ROSS-ECKLER
A ROSS-ECKLER
Girl/Female
Christian & English(British/American/Australian)
A Rose
Girl/Female
Australian, Finnish, French, Latin
Rose
Female
English
 Medieval Latin name ROSA means "rose." Compare with another form of Rosa.
Girl/Female
Hindu
Rose
Girl/Female
Gaelic German Latin Spanish
Rose.
Surname or Lastname
Scottish and English (of Norman origin)
Scottish and English (of Norman origin) : habitational name for someone from Rots near Caen in Normandy, probably named with the Germanic element rod ‘clearing’. Compare Rhodes. This was the original home of a family de Ros, who were established in Kent in 1130.Scottish and English : habitational name from any of various places called Ross or Roos(e), deriving the name from Welsh rhós ‘upland’ or moorland, or from a British ancestor of this word, which also had the sense ‘promontory’. This is the sense of the cognate Gaelic word ros. Known sources of the surname include Roos in Humberside (formerly in East Yorkshire) and the region of northern Scotland known as Ross. Other possible sources are Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire, Ross in Northumbria (which is on a promontory), and Roose in LancashireEnglish and German : from the Germanic personal name Rozzo, a short form of the various compound names with the first element hrÅd ‘renown’, introduced into England by the Normans in the form Roce.German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name for a breeder or keeper of horses, from Middle High German ros, German Ross ‘horse’; perhaps also a nickname for someone thought to resemble a horse or a habitational name for someone who lived at a house distinguished by the sign of a horse.Jewish : Americanized form of Rose 3.
Male
Italian
Short form of Italian Crocifisso, or Croccifixio, CROSS means "cross; crucifix" or "way of the cross."
Boy/Male
American, Australian, British, Chinese, Christian, English, French, Gaelic, German, Irish, Latin, Scandinavian, Scottish, Teutonic
Red Haired; Headland; Red; Surname; Wood; Rose; Having a Big Heart
Female
Dutch
, rose.
Girl/Female
British, Dutch, English, French, German, Netherlands
Rose
Girl/Female
Christian & English(British/American/Australian)
Rose
Female
Swiss
, rose.
Girl/Female
American, Arabic, Australian, Bengali, British, Chinese, Christian, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Indian, Irish, Italian, Kannada, Latin, Malayalam, Scottish, Swedish, Tamil
Rose Flower; Flower Name; Horse; Renown; Rose Bush; A Variety of Flower
Girl/Female
Bengali, Indian
Rose
Girl/Female
Christian, French, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Latin, Marathi, Tamil
Deep Pink; Beautiful; Rose
Girl/Female
Gaelic Irish
Rose.
Male
English
Scottish surname transferred to forename use, derived from the Gaelic word ros, ROSS means "headland, promontory."
Girl/Female
American, Australian, British, Chinese, Christian, Danish, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindu, Indian, Irish, Italian, Latin, Marathi, Portuguese, Swedish, Swiss, Tamil
Rose; Little Rose; Flower Name; Truthful; Kindness; Dew; Famous Guardian; Beautiful
Female
English
Variant spelling of English Rosie, ROSY means "rose."
Surname or Lastname
Dutch (also de Roos) and Swiss German
Dutch (also de Roos) and Swiss German : habitational name for someone living at a house distinguished by the sign of a rose.Dutch (also de Roos) : metonymic occupational name for someone who grew roses, from roos ‘rose’.Dutch : from the female personal name Rosa (Latin rosa ‘rose’).Dutch : nickname from roos ‘erysipelas’, an infection which causes reddening of the skin and scalp, applied presumably to someone with a ruddy complexion.Swiss German : from a personal name formed with hrÅd ‘renown’.Swedish and Danish (of German origin) : as 1.Swedish : variant of Ros.English and Scottish : variant of Ross 2.
A ROSS-ECKLER
A ROSS-ECKLER
Girl/Female
Australian, Jamaican
Courageous; Valiant; Manly
Female
Ukrainian
, God's gift.
Girl/Female
Muslim
A narrator of Hadith
Boy/Male
Bengali, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Mythological, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu
Immortal God; Lord Shiva
Girl/Female
Irish
From rionach meaning “queenly.†In legend Rionach was the wife of “Niall of the Nine Hostages†(read the legend) and as such is the maternal ancestor of many of the great Irish family dynasties.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from places so named in Shropshire and Staffordshire, named in Old English with the personal name MÄda + lÄ“ah ‘woodland clearing’.
Female
Egyptian
, the wife of King Namrut.
Girl/Female
Hebrew
Protected by God.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by a gate or ‘hatch’ (especially one leading into a forest), northern Middle English heck (Old English hæcc), or a habitational name from Great Heck in North Yorkshire, which is named with this word. Compare Hatch.German : topographic name from Middle High German hecke, hegge ‘hedge’. This name is common in southern Germany and the Rhineland.Possibly an Americanized spelling of French Hec(q), a topographic name from Old French hec ‘gate’, ‘barrier’, ‘fence’ (compare 1), or a habitational name from a place named with this word.Shortened form of the Dutch surname van (den) Hecke, a habitational name from any of several places called ten Hekke in the Belgian provinces of East and West Flanders.
Girl/Female
Biblical
Their chamber, their bank.
A ROSS-ECKLER
A ROSS-ECKLER
A ROSS-ECKLER
A ROSS-ECKLER
A ROSS-ECKLER
sing. & pl.
The number of twelve dozen; twelve times twelve; as, a gross of bottles; ten gross of pens.
a.
Overgrown with moss.
a.
Full of roses; rosy; as, roseate bowers.
superl.
Whole; entire; total; without deduction; as, the gross sum, or gross amount, the gross weight; -- opposed to net.
a.
Characterized by, or in a state of, peevishness, fretfulness, or ill humor; as, a cross man or woman.
a.
Consisting of roses; rosy.
a.
Having a pink color like that of the rose, or like the pigment called rose pink. See Rose pink, under Rose.
superl.
Resembling a rose in color, form, or qualities; blooming; red; blushing; also, adorned with roses.
a.
Cut flat on the reverse, and with a convex face formed of triangular facets in rows; -- said of diamonds and other precious stones. See Rose diamond, under Rose. Cf. Brilliant, n.
n.
A monument in the form of a cross, or surmounted by a cross, set up in a public place; as, a market cross; a boundary cross; Charing Cross in London.
a.
Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged; as, cross interrogatories; cross marriages, as when a brother and sister marry persons standing in the same relation to each other.
superl.
Great; palpable; serious; vagrant; shameful; as, a gross mistake; gross injustice; gross negligence.
n.
A knot of ribbon formed like a rose; a rose knot; a rosette, esp. one worn on a shoe.
n.
A diamond. See Rose diamond, below.
n.
The color of a rose; rose-red; pink.
v. t.
To divest of the ross, or rough, scaly surface; as, to ross bark.
n.
A rose window. See Rose window, below.
a.
Having the color of a pink rose; rose-pink; of a delicate pink color.