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DECUMAN

\dɪkjˈuːmən], \dɪkjˈuːmən], \d_ɪ_k_j_ˈuː_m_ə_n]\

Definitions of DECUMAN

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English

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Large; chief; - applied to an extraordinary billow, supposed by some to be every tenth in order. [R.] Also used substantively.

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
By Oddity Software

Large; chief; - applied to an extraordinary billow, supposed by some to be every tenth in order. [R.] Also used substantively.

1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
By Noah Webster.

Huge; largest, said of waves.

1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
By Nuttall, P.Austin.

dek'[=u]-man, adj. principal, large--of waves, &c.: connected with the principal gate of a Roman camp (near which the 10th cohort of the legion was stationed).--n. a great wave, as every tenth wave was supposed to be. [L. decumanus--decem, ten.]

1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
By Thomas Davidson

Especially large or powerful (usu. of wave lit. or fig.). [Latin]

1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English
By Sir Augustus Henry

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