More than one of these 7 encyclopedias carries each of the following subjects — but every one of them treats it in a sentence or two and then moves on. They are gathered here so the different accounts can sit side by side.
Bullhead
Collier's New Encyclopedia: various fishes having large heads. The river bullhead, a spiny finned fish, cottus gobio. It is called also the miller's thumb and the tommy lugge. It has a broad and flat head, the preopercle with one spine, the body dusky clouded with yellow, the belly whitish. Its length is about four inches. The bullhead in this country is confounded with the catfish. The fish genus aspidophorus, of the same family triglidæ. A. europæus is the armed bullhead.
Aiton's Encyclopedia: . See Catfish
Covered by Collier's New Encyclopedia and Aiton's Encyclopedia
Bullion
Collier's New Encyclopedia: uncoined gold and silver in bars or in the mass. United States standard bullion contains 900 parts of pure gold or pure silver, and 100 parts of copper alloy. The coining value of an ounce of pure gold is $20.67183, and the coining value of an ounce of standard gold is $18.60465. The coining value in standard silver dollars of an ounce of pure silver is $1.2929, and the coining value of an ounce of standard silver is $1.1636.
Aiton's Encyclopedia: bul'yun, uncoined gold or silver. The coining value of an ounce of pure gold is $20.67183; of silver, $1.2929. In coinage it is customary to take nine hundred parts of pure gold or silver and one hundred parts of copper alloy to give hardness. Bullion thus alloyed is called standard bullion. The world now produces about 15,000,000 ounces of gold bullion and 164,000,000 ounces of silver bullion a year. See Gold ; Silver ; Mint ; Coinage 2026 Editor's Note: These numbers date the entry precisely. Gold was fixed at $20.67 an ounce because the dollar was legally defined as a weight of gold; that link was broken in 1933 and severed entirely in 1971, and the price now floats in the thousands. The gold standard the entry treats as a law of nature lasted only a few decades more. (Ed: BR 2026-07-03)
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Burial
Collier's New Encyclopedia: the most universal method of disposing of the dead, the practice of burning them on a funeral pile, prevalent to a limited extent among the Greeks and the Romans, and nearly universal among the Hindus, being the exception and not the rule. The Egyptians and, at least in some special cases, the Jews embalmed their dead. In Europe, according to Sir John Lubbock, interments in which the corpse is in a sitting or contracted posture belong to the stone in which it has been burned and only the ashes interred, to the age, those bronze age, and those in which the corpse lies extended, presumably to the age of iron. During the first French Revolution a proposal was made to adopt the process of cremation, but it failed. The project was revived on the Continent during the 19th century, and recommended in England, in 1873, by Dr. Henry Thompson, but as yet it has met with only limited acceptance from the public. See CREMATION.
Aiton's Encyclopedia: . See Barrow ; Catacombs ; Pere Lachaise ; Cemetery ; Mummy ; Cairn ; Westminster Abbey ; Cromlech ; Luther ; Napoleon; Grant ; Hearse ; Parsees ; Suttee ; Pyramid ; Navajo
Covered by Collier's New Encyclopedia and Aiton's Encyclopedia
Bush
Collier's New Encyclopedia: IRVING T., an American capitalist, born in Ridgeway, Mich., in 1869. He received an academic education. At the age of 19 he began business in the firm of his father. In 1895 he began the establishment of warehouses in New York City under the title of The Bush Co., Ltd. He founded the Bush Terminal Company in 190 1902, which developed into the Bush Terminal with 125 warehouses and 8 piers in New York City. These provided facilities for the business of over 250 manufacturing noma, wholesale establishments. He He was a member of many economic societies. During the war he performed valuable services in an advisory capacity.
American Watchmaker and Jeweler: A perforated piece of metal let into a plate to receive the wear of pivots. See Bouchon.
Covered by Collier's New Encyclopedia and American Watchmaker and Jeweler
Butcher Bird
Collier's New Encyclopedia: one of the English names of the genus lanius. The species are so denominated because they impale on a thorn the small birds, small quadrupeds, insects, and worms on which they feed. They are also called shrikes.
Aiton's Encyclopedia: . See Shrike
Covered by Collier's New Encyclopedia and Aiton's Encyclopedia
Butternut
Collier's New Encyclopedia: the fruit of juglans cinerea, or white walnut, an American tree, so called from the oil it contains. The tree bears a resemblance in its general appearance to the black walnut, but the wood is not so dark in color. The same name is given to the nut of caryocar butyraceum and C. nuciferum of South America, also known as suwarrow, or suwarra nut.
Aiton's Encyclopedia: an American tree valued for nuts and timber. See Walnut
Covered by Collier's New Encyclopedia and Aiton's Encyclopedia