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.
Curlew
Aiton's Encyclopedia: a shore bird of the snipe family. The curlew is a wading bird of marshy and upland places, where it secures snails, worms, crickets, grasshoppers, beetles, and crayfish. Of North American species, the jack-curlew breeds in British America and winters from the Gulf States to Patagonia. The long-billed curlew, a fine bird two feet high, has a curved bill six inches long. It is called the sickle-bill also. It probes the earth to six inches in search of food. In lighting the wings are lifted gracefully above the back. In Scotland the European curlew is called a whaup. See Snipe 'T is the place, and all around it, as of old, the curlews call, Dreary gleams about the moorland flying over Locksley Hall.--Tennyson, Locksley Hall.
Collier's New Encyclopedia: a wading bird, Numeniusurquatus, of the family Scolopacidæ (Snipes). Male of a bright ash color on the head and breast, here and there clouded with red, white on the belly, and spotted. Female more ash-colored, the red less pure. It is found in most parts of the world. In Scotland it is called the whaup. It lays a large egg, olive-green and spotted with dark green and brown. There are several American species.
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Currency
Collier's New Encyclopedia: the current money or circulating medium of a country, whether curin coin or in paper. The metallic rency comprises the gold, silver, nickel, and copper coin in circulation in any country; but for these three latter aids to circulation the metallic currency would fall far short of the necessities of the country. In the United States, England, and France bronze coin is used instead of copper. Nickel minor coins, 25 per cent. nickel and 75 per cent. copper, are used in Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, and the United States. Coins of platinum have been used in Russia. Paper currency comprises treasury notes, banknotes, bills of exchange, or checks, which circulate as substitutes or representatives of coin.
Aiton's Encyclopedia: . See Money ; Greenbacks ; Coin ; Bank
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Cyclades
Aiton's Encyclopedia: the principal group of islands in the Aegean Sea. They are twelve in number. The name is Grecian, and is derived from the same source as cycle, bicycle, etc. It was given because the islands were thought to form a ring about Delos. The islands are still known as the Cyclades, and form a department of modern Greece. The islands are volcanic. The inhabitants are engaged in fishing and in raising olives and grapes. The goat is the chief domestic animal. The capital is Hermopolis. Area, 928 square miles. The population of the Cyclades in 1907 was about 130,000.
Collier's New Encyclopedia: the principal group of islands in the Grecian Archipelago now belonging to the Kingdom of Greece, so named from lying round the sacred island of Delos in a circle. The largest islands of the group are Andros, Paros, Myconos, Tenos, Naxos, Melos, and Thera or Santorin. They are of volcanic formation and generally mountainous. Some are very fertile, produc almost sterile. The inhabitants are excellent sailors. Pop. about 130,400.
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Cyclamen
Aiton's Encyclopedia: sik'la-men, a beautiful greenhouse flower widely introduced from Persia. The flower scapes and leaves spring from a tuber. The leaves are heartshaped and are beautifully variegated. The petals bend sharply backward, giving the flower at first glimpse somewhat the appearance of a violet. The petals vary in color from white to rose. The common varieties are scentless. The cyclamen is raised chiefly from seed. The seed appears to require two months to germinate, but in reality it produces a small corm before leaves appear. The genus belongs to the primrose family. See Primrose
Collier's New Encyclopedia: sowbread, a genus of primulaceæ, family primulidæ. The root of the same species is said to be eatable when dried or roasted. CYCLES. See BICYCLE.
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Cygnus
Aiton's Encyclopedia: or Cycnus, sig'nus, in Greek mythology, an intimate friend of Phaeton, who, having borrowed the chariot of his father, Phoebus Apollo, nearly set the world on fire. Phaeton was slain by a thunderbolt of Jove and fell headlong into the great river Eridanus. Cygnus mourned long and deeply for his friend. He would spend hours wandering on the shores of the river which had received Phaeton's body. Frequently he would plunge into the waters, occasionally bringing to the surface some ghastly relic of the disaster. Finally, in pity or in anger, the gods changed him into a great bird. Still he sailed pensively about upon the river where his friend was drowned, often bending his long white neck and thrusting his head below the surface, as though still searching for some sad trophy of the beloved Phaeton. This is the way swans came into the world.
Collier's New Encyclopedia: a large Northern constellation in the Milky Way, one is surroundof Ptolemy's original 48. It ed by Draco, Cepheus, Lacerta, Pegasus, Vulpacula, and Lyra. One of its small stars of about the 5.5 magnitude, 61 Cygni, a well-known double as well, is among the one of our nearest neighbors stars. The determinations of its parallax from are somewhat discordant, ranging 0.27" to 0.56", giving in light-years a distance of from 12 to 6 years.
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Cylinder
Collier's New Encyclopedia: a well-known solid whose cross-section at any point of its length gives always the same circle; or, mathematically, a solid generated by the revolution of a rectangle about one of its sides, which line is called the axis of the cylinder. That, the typical cylinder, is frequently called right, and if cut by two parallel planes not perpendicular to the axis the result is an oblique cylinder, with elliptical ends or sections. The term has also been generalized to include a solid generated by a line moving parallel to a fixed direction while In all tracing any fixed closed curve. cases the content of the cylinder is found by multiplying the number of square units in the base by the number of linear units in the altitude, which is the perpendicular distance between the two ends. The area of the convex surface is equal to the product of the circumference of the end, and the length of the generating line. To this must be added the areas of the two ends, to get the whole surface of the cylinder.
American Watchmaker and Jeweler: The hollow arbor upon which the balance of a cylinder watch is mounted in such a way as to be free to vibrate thus allowing a tooth of the escape wheel to pass, and imparting motion to the balance.
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