Collier's New Encyclopedia

A complete general encyclopedia of 1921 — the world as it was understood just after the Great War, from Aachen to Zwingli, across twelve volumes and six thousand pages.

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Stinkwood

the Oreodaphne foetida, a tree of the natural order Lauracea, a native of the Cape of Good Hope, remarkable for the strong disagreeable smell of its wood, which, however, is hard, very durable, takes an excellent polish, and resembles walnut. It has been used in shipbuilding .

STINT (Tringa), a gallatorial bird, a species of sandpiper . Temminck's stint (T. Temminckii) is the smallest species of the British sandpipers, length 51½ inches. It inhabits the edges of lakes and inland rivers, and is said to breed in North Europe.

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