hanse
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That part of an elliptical or many-centered arch which has the shorter radius and immediately adjoins the impost.
An association; a league or confederacy.
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Hanse, later spelled as Hansa, was the Middle Low German word for a convoy, and this word was applied to bands of merchants traveling between the Hanseatic cities whether by land or by sea.
Translation of the grant of privileges to merchants in 1229: citation Before the foundation of the League in 1356 the word Hanse did not occur in the Baltic language.
The Fahrenheits were a German Hanse merchant family who had lived in several Hanseatic cities.
In 2017, Mr. Hanse completed a restoration of the West Course, in Marmaroneck, N.Y., after a 2014 restoration of the East Course, also designed by Mr. Tillinghast.
Stephen Hanse, president and CEO of the New York State Health Facilities Association and New York State Center for Assisted Living, said the long-term care industry groups approve of Cuomo’s new nursing home policy and his testing directive.