See Also: kinetocardiography(medicine)
plunder(1)(dictionary)
plunder(2)(dictionary)
plunder 1, verb(dictionary)
plunder 2, noun(dictionary)

plunder(1) (iou) and kinetocardiography (medicine)


plunder(1) (iou)



plunder noun. M17.
[from PLUNDER verb.]
The action of plundering or taking something as spoil, esp. in war; pillage, depredation. Now rare or obsolete. M17.
J. Leoni After the plunder and spoiling of the Temple.
b. The acquisition of property by violent, questionable, or dishonest means; spoliation. L17.
J. A. Froude The wretched novice was an object of General plunder.
Goods or valuables taken from an enemy by force, esp. in war; booty, loot. M17.
H. H. Wilson The instigator of the depredations..sharing in the plunder. H. Newbolt Take your ill-got plunder, and bury the dead.
b. Property acquired by violent, questionable, or dishonest means; colloq. profit, gain. L18.
J. G. Holland Men..actuated by no higher motive than a love of plunder.
Personal belongings or household goods collectively; luggage, baggage. US local. E19.
J. F. Cooper You seem to have but little plunder..for one..so far abroad.

kinetocardiography (medicine)


kinetocardiography


The technique of graphically recording the slow vibrations of the anterior chest wall in the region of the heart, the vibrations representing the absolute motion of the heart at a given point on the chest.