Confusion between similar letter sequences with minims (such as uu and nn) in old handwritten documents.

(nautical) A short outrigger projecting from the side of the aft part of a square-rigged sailing ship, used as an attachment point for a rope (brace) used to set a yard-arm at different angles to a...

plural of nominative type system

(organic chemistry, of a hydroxy carboxylic acid) Converted into a lactone by internal condensation