• In the Byzantine Empire, a governor of a distant province.
• In the Eastern Christian Churches, the deputy of a patriarch, or a bishop who holds authority over other bishops without being a patriarch.
• In these same churches, a bishop appointed over a group of the faithful not yet large enough or organized enough to constitute an eparchy or diocese.
• The Germanic runic alphabet; especially specifically the Elder or Younger futhark alphabet (of Scandinavia and the European mainland), as contrasted with the Anglo-Saxon futhorc.
• the position of a prominent or well-known object in a particular landscape
• an event marking a unique or important historical change of course or one on which important developments depend
• a mark showing the boundary of a piece of land
• an anatomical structure used as a point of origin in locating other anatomical structures (as in surgery) or as point from which measurements can be taken
• (physics) hypothetical truly fundamental particle in mesons and baryons; there are supposed to be six flavors of quarks (and their antiquarks), which come in pairs; each has an electric charge of +2/3 or -1/3
• fresh unripened cheese of a smooth texture made from pasteurized milk, a starter, and rennet
• To remove the bark from a tree in a ring all the way around its trunk, normally killing the tree (because nutrients are carried through the phloem, the layers immediately under the bark, which layers are damaged by the process).
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