Crossword clues for hanse
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hanse \Hanse\ (h[a^]ns), n. [Cf. F. anse handle, anse de panier surbased arch, flat arch, vault, and E. haunch hip.] (Arch.) That part of an elliptical or many-centered arch which has the shorter radius and immediately adjoins the impost.
Hanse \Hanse\, n. [G. hanse, or F. hanse (from German), OHG. & Goth. hansa; akin to AS. h[=o]s band, troop.] An association; a league or confederacy.
Hanse towns (Hist.), certain commercial cities in Germany which associated themselves for the protection and enlarging of their commerce. The confederacy, called also Hansa and Hanseatic league, held its first diet in 1260, and was maintained for nearly four hundred years. At one time the league comprised eighty-five cities. Its remnants, L["u]beck, Hamburg, and Bremen, are free cities, and are still frequently called Hanse towns.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 A league; a confederacy. 2 A society or combination of merchants in mercantile towns, for the protection and facility of trade and transportation. 3 A Mediaeval French guild. Etymology 2
n. (context architecture English) That part of an elliptical or many-centred arch which has the shorter radius and immediately adjoins the impost.
Usage examples of "hanse".
Hanse found her asprawl and weeping in semi-hysteria, partially in a patch of dark-colored sand, and he saw the menace.
Strange as it may appear, it is nevertheless the fact, that, oppressive as had been his presence at Lubeck, the Hanse Towns soon had reason to regret him.
Clenching his hands uselessly, Hanse transferred his gaze from Shink to Quesh and took some of the meanness out of his eyes.
Hanse surprised all three of them then, himself included, by standing and clapping Khulna on the upper arm.
Wondering just how ancient that anile cliche' was, Hanse headed for The Quarter, in search of Anorislas.
On legs with the bulgily overdeveloped calves his weight made necessary, Tethras walked Hanse out of the bazaar and into a nice inn, where he doffed his handsome feathered hat and ordered a custard cup for each of them.
Then someone called for Chiri, and Chondey squealed with a small grease fire, and Khulna hurried to her, and Hanse and Mignureal followed.
He was still Hanse, that Downwinder bastard (both by birth and by nature, it had been said of him).
Hanse moved deliberately up the wide center aisle, boots clicking echoically on marble.
Hanse said uncomfortably, embarrassed both by her effusiveness over so little and at being hugged in public, "it isn't as if they're pure gold or anything.
Order was established and negotiations entered into for the mutual safeguard of traders with the Hanse towns.
Imagine that a Viennese prankster, to amuse his friends, invented the whole business of the id and Oedipus, and made up dreams he had never dreamed and little Hanses he had never met.
Hanse did discover from something said by Rose and intimated by Rys that the beef stew was special.
Since Markmor's death, Hanse learned the following Eshday afternoon from one of the fixture/characters of the Maze, the street cleaner and trash picker called Old Thumpfoot, the quite young Marype had secretly set himself up in Lastel's villa, whether legally or otherwise.
The waylayer ran away and Hanse was in a much better mood when he reached the apartment.