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Xavier
FRANCISCO, a Spanish missionary and saint of the Roman Catholic Church, usually styled the Apostle of the Indies; born of a noble family…
Xenia
a city and county-seat of Greene co., O.; on Shawnee creek, and on the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis, the Cincinnati…
Xenon
the name of an element discovered in 1898 by Professor Ramsay and Dr. Morris Travers when making the experiments with liquid air which…
Xenophon
a Greek historian, and philosopher; born about 430 B. C. At an early age he became a pupil of Soc. rates, and is said to have been saved…
Xeres
or JEREZ DE LA FRON- TERA, a town in southwest Spain, the Asta R Regia of the Romans, and the seat of the wine trade in Spain, of which the…
Ximenes De Cisneros
FRAN- CISCO, a Spanish cardinal and statesman; born of a noble though poor family, in Tordelaguna, Castile, in 1430. He studied at the…
Xiphias
in ichthyology, a genus of Xiphiidæ, distinguished by the absence of ventral fins. The best known species is X. gladius, the common or…
Xylene
or XYLOL (C8H10), one of the aromatic hydrocarbons, being a homologue of benzene (C₆H₆), and sometimes known as dimethyl-benzene from the…
Xantippus – Ximenes
a Lacedæmonian general; went to the support of the Carthaginians in 255 B. c.; and defeated the Romans under Regulus at Tunes (now Tunis)…