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The Glossary of Meteorology defines “drought” as “a period of abnormally dry weather sufficiently prolonged for the lack of water to cause serious hydrologic imbalance in the affected area.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2023
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From Seattle Times • Jun. 13, 2022
The first recorded mention of Beltane was in the 10th century CE text "Cormac's Glossary," known in Gaelic as "Sanas Cormaic."
From Salon • May 2, 2022
According to the “International Glossary of Hydrology,” a cloudburst is “a rainstorm of extraordinary intensity and relatively short duration” that can deliver thunder, hail, even flash floods to a previously untroubled day.
From New York Times • Apr. 10, 2018
The schelch or shelk seems by the description in Braunfels's Glossary to have been a kind of tragelaphus, with hair down the breast.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
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