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Borden – Bo-Tree
Borden
GAIL, an American inventor of food products, born in Norwich, N. Y., Nov. 6, 1801. After attaining prominence in public affairs in the South and West, he turned his attention to food products. Meat biscuit and pemmican were invented by him. Later he perfected a system of condensing milk. He died in Borden, Tex., Jan. 11, 1874.
Border States
a name applied during the American Civil War to Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri, because they lay on the border line between the Free and the Slave States.
Borecole
a variety of brassica oleracea, a cabbage with the leaves curled or wrinkled, and having no disposition to form into a hard head.
Boro-Glyceride
a compound of boracic acid with glycerine, represented by the formula C₆H₅BO₃. It is a powerful antiseptic, and being perfectly harmless is as useful in the preservation of food as in surgery, etc.
Borsippa
a very ancient city of Board on Geographic Names, this word, Babylonia, the site of which is marked by when forming a part of a place word, is the ruins Birs Nimrud. now abbreviated to boro, as Hillsboro.
Bosch Bok
the bush buck, a name given to several South African species of antelope.
Bosch Vark
the bush hog or bush pig of South Africa (choiropotamus africanus), one of the swine family, about 5 feet long, and with very large and strong tusks. The Kaffirs esteem its flesh as a luxury, and its tusks as personal ornaments.
Bosher
KATE LANGLEY, an American novelist; born in Norfolk, Va., in 1865. She wrote in a humorous vein and with an appeal to wholesome sentiment that has won great popularity for her work. Her publications include "Mary Cary" (1910); "Miss Gibbie Gault" (1911); "The Man in Lonely Land" (1912); and "The House of Happiness" (1913).
Boss
an elevated or thickened portion, usually around an aperture, or a swage or stump used in shaping sheet metal.
Gothic architecture it is the protuberance in a vaulted ceiling formed by the junction of the ends of several ribs, and serving to bind them together ; usually elaborately carved and ornamented.
Boston Mountains
a mountain range in western Arkansas, extending into the Indian Territory; highest summits, 3,000 feet above the sea. a disguised
Boston University
a coeducaganized in 1869 under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The Professors and instructors, 364; students, about 5,700; volumes in the libraries, 63,000; productive funds, $3,212,tional institution in Boston, Mass.; or university reported at the end of 1919; arlin, D. D., LL. 448; income, $160,000; president, L. H.
D.
Oct. 29, 1740. ated at Edinburgh and
Bo-Tree
the ficus religiosa, pipal, or sacred fig-tree of India and Ceylon, venerated by the Buddhists and planted near their temples. One specimen at Anuradhapura, in Ceylon, is said to have been planted before 200 в. c. It was greatly shattered by a storm in 1887.