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.
Fabius
Aiton's Encyclopedia: fa'be-us, a noted Roman commander, called also Maximus the Great and Cunctator the Delayer. As a Roman schoolboy he is said to have been nicknamed "Warts" from a wart on his upper lip. He died 203 B. C. Fabius held military command on several critical occasions. He was five times consul, twice censor, and once dictator. His chief service was rendered in opposing the advance of Hannibal after the battle of Thrasymenus. Not feeling strong enough to meet the Carthaginian in open battle, he hovered about, striking at every exposed point, wearying and delaying the troops of Hannibal until they were worn out with marching and countermarching. In this way the season passed. Hannibal lost a golden opportunity of marching on Rome. During the campaigns of 1776-7, when the British overran New Jersey , Washington adopted the Fabian policy of harassing and delaying the enemy, making now and then a sudden attack, as in the case of the battle of Trenton. He is called sometimes the American Fabius. See Hannibal
Collier's New Encyclopedia: the name of one of the oldest and most famous families of Rome, every member of which was massacred at Cremera, 478 b. c., except QUINTUS FA- BIUS VIBULANUS, who became one of the decemvirate. After him are mentioned
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Fable
Collier's New Encyclopedia: any fictitious narrative; more particularly a kind of literary composition, either prose or verse, in which a short fictitious story is made to convey practical rules of prudence or wisdom. The fable consists properly of two parts _ the symbolical representation, and the application of the moral of the tale. Among the most celebrated fables of the East, where this species of composition seems to have originated, are the Indian fables of Pilpay, or Bilpai, and the more eager Arabic collection of Lokman, who is said to have lived in the time of King David. Among the Greeks, the fables of Æsop were well known, but many of those that were current in Greece under his name are identical with those of the East. In Latin, Phædrus has left about 90 fables of considerable merit in imitation of Æsop; but the well-known fable of "the town-mouse and the countrymouse," related by Horace, is the best in that language. During the Middle Ages the fable was not entirely neglected; "Reynard the Fox," a famous mediæval epic, may be considered as a sort of extended satirical fable. Among the most distinguished of the later fable-writers and Lessing of Gerare Gellert, Gleim, many, and Gay of England, but pre-eminent among all the modern fabulists, for his delicate sarcasm and his lively wit, is the French La Fontaine.
Aiton's Encyclopedia: . See Aesop ; Lockman; La Fontaine ; Andersen
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Faience
Aiton's Encyclopedia: or Fayence, soft-bodied, glazed pottery. The name is derived from Faenza, Italy, where the art of glazing soft ware was understood as early as 1299. Faience differs from porcelain chiefly in having a soft body and a thin glaze. Two firings are needed. The art was carried to France about 1578. Joseph Wedgewood of England set up a faience factory in 1763. Wedgewood wares are famous. The Rookwood wares are faience. The term may be applied to faience wares of all descriptions; but it is used more frequently to denote vases, cups, pitchers, and other receptacles. Faience implies decoration of a high order. Faience art has engaged the attention of noted artists.
Collier's New Encyclopedia: a fine kind of pottery originally made in imitation of majolica. The different kinds of faience are produced by the use of common or of fire-clay; the admixture of sand with the clay, as in Persian ware; the use of a transparent or of a colored glaze; of an opaque or translucent enamel, or by a combination of these processes on the same piece.
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Falkirk
Collier's New Encyclopedia: a parliamentary and mulingshire in Scotland. It is on the North British railway and is connected with the Clyde canal. Its seaport is Grangemouth, east and west coasts by the Forth and on the Firth of Forth, about three miles distant. The city has several notable buildings, including a town hall , free of the Scotch iron foundry trade. In the library, and a hospital . It is the center neighborhood are important coal mines founded in the 11th century, and in 1298 and large distilleries. The town was between the English under Edward I. it was the scene of an important battle and the Scotch under William Wallace, in which the latter were defeated. Pop. (1911) 33,574; (1918) (est.) 35,251.
Aiton's Encyclopedia: a Scottish burgh in Stirling-shire, twenty-four miles northwest from Edinburgh. It was celebrated for cattle fairs. Two noted battles were fought here. The forces of Wallace were defeated in 1298. January 17, 1746, Charles the Pretender defeated the English under General Hawley on Falkirk Moor.
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Fallow Deer
Collier's New Encyclopedia: an animal of the deer kind, well known from being preserved in a semi-domesticated state in many English parks. The color of the wild animal, both buck and doe, is a rich yellowish brown in summer, spotted with white all over. In winter the tints are more somber and grayish. Domestic varieties vary greatly both in the distinctness of the spotting and the general coloration. The antlers are palmated in the upper parts, in the region of the sur-royals, the digitations or terminal points being developed along the convex posterior margin of the palmated surface. Till six years of age the buck receives a distinct name each year from sportsmen - viz., fawn, pricket, sorrel, soare, buck of the first head, and buck complete; the antlers not being developed at all in the fawn, being simple snags in the pricket, with two front branches in the sorrel, with slight palmation of the extremity of the beam in the soare, and the whole antler larger and larger until the sixth year. It is a native of northern Europe.
Aiton's Encyclopedia: a small European deer, now kept in parks, and in private grounds. It is smaller than the red deer, standing about three feet high at the withers. It is yellow in color, spotted with white. The name is derived from the adjective fallow, meaning yellowish. See Deer
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