(n) an ancient region of Mesopotamia lying between the Euphrates delta and the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Desert; settled in 1000 BC and destroyed by the Persians in 539 BC; reached the height of its power under Nebuchadnezzar II, Syn.Chaldaea
(n) Scottish geneticist (son of John Haldane) who contributed to the development of population genetics; a popularizer of science and a Marxist (1892-1964), Syn.John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, J. B. S. Haldane
(n) Scottish physiologist and brother of Richard Haldane and Elizabeth Haldane; noted for research into industrial diseases (1860-1936), Syn.John Haldane, John Scott Haldane
(n) an ancient kingdom in southern Mesopotamia; Babylonia conquered Israel in the 6th century BC and exiled the Jews to Babylon (where Daniel became a counselor to the king), Syn.Chaldea, Chaldaea
a. [ L. Chaldaeus. ] Of or pertaining to Chaldea. -- n. (a) A native or inhabitant of Chaldea. (b) A learned man, esp. an astrologer; -- so called among the Eastern nations, because astrology and the kindred arts were much cultivated by the Chaldeans. (c) Nestorian. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ OF. chaldron, F. chaudron kettle. The same word as caldron. ] An English dry measure, being, at London, 36 bushels heaped up, or its equivalent weight, and more than twice as much at Newcastle. Now used exclusively for coal and coke. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ In the United States the chaldron is ordinarily 2, 940 lbs, but at New York it is 2, 500 lbs. De Colange. [ 1913 Webster ]
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