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.
Foundry
The Encyclopedia of Founding: Foundries are distinguished by either the metals employed or the class of castings made, as iron, steel, brass, statue, type, bell foundries, etc.; casting the finer metals, as gold, silver, and the infinite number of alloys of these and other metals, being necessarily conducted on a smaller scale. See FOUNDING. Fountain-runner is a running-gate supplied from a source below the point at which the metal enters the mould, and may be formed by either connecting a vertical runner from the casting down to a horizontal one below, or by a tapered cylindrical half-ring, having one end touching the casting and the other in proximity to the main runner at the joint. It is then termed a horn-gate. Such runners are serviceable when it is desired to fill a mould easily, and with as little friction as possible. See GATE; RUNNER. Free Sand is sand which, owing to its freedom from alumina, is without the power of cohesiveness, as stone-sand, beach-sand, river-sand, etc. See FACING-SAND; CORE-SAND; FLOUR.
Aiton's Encyclopedia: . See Casting
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Frankincense
Collier's New Encyclopedia: a resin obtained from a great number of trees of the fir species, and greatly esteemed as an incense. The article now universally known as frankincense is the the resin called thus, a common, inodorous article, little better than common white resin. pable of giving out a flame of constant FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAIN The article once so highly valued, and which, with gold and myrrh, was deemed a gift to lay before the Saviour, must have been some other drug.
Aiton's Encyclopedia: frank'in-sens, an aromatic gum. The syllable frank means free from impurity, hence pure. The frankincense of antiquity was obtained from various gum-producing plants, especially a certain tree found in eastern Africa and southern Arabia. It was akin to myrrh and balm of Gilead , and was much used in swinging censers in religious observances. Modern imitations are made from the gum which collects on the trunks of the turpentine pine of the Southern States. See Perfume
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Friar
Collier's New Encyclopedia: any religious of the male sex belonging to a monastic order. Thus, the Capuchins were originally called Friars Hermits Minor, and the Observants more permanently, Friars Observant. The term is used specifically for religious belonging to one of the four mendicant orders for men: (a) The
Aiton's Encyclopedia: in the Roman Catholic Church, a member of one of the mendicant monastic orders. The three orders best known are the Franciscan, known from their garb as Gray Friars; the Dominican, known as Black Friars ; and the Carmelites, known as White Friars.
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Fulda
Aiton's Encyclopedia: a city on the river of that name about fifty-three miles northeast of Frankfurt-on-the-Main. It is a manufacturing town of about 13,000 inhabitants. Fulda is noted as the site of an ancient abbey, founded by Boniface in 744. This abbey was a center of missionary work among the Germans. Boniface was buried in the old abbey. A copy of the gospels in his own handwriting is shown. A statue to "the apostle of Germany" has been erected.
Collier's New Encyclopedia: LUDWIG (föl'dä), a German dramatist; born in Frankfort-onthe-Main, July 15, 1862. One of his first pieces, a comedy in verse, "Honest Men," was repeatedly put on the stage. His most successful plays are the two comedies "Under Four Eyes" (1886) and "The Wild Chase" (1888); and the drama of society "The Lost Paradise" (1890). His dramatic tale "The Talis-
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Fundy
Collier's New Encyclopedia: BAY OF, an arm of the Atlantic Ocean between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. It is about 170 miles 3 4 POISONOUS FUNGI 3. Satan's Mushroom 4. Death-cup long, and from 30 to 50 miles wide. Opening into it are Chignecto Bay and Mines Channel at the N. extremity, and Passamaquoddy Bay near its mouth. It receives the St. John and St. Croix rivers , and though very deep, navigation is dangerous. The tide rises here to the height of 71 feet, rushing with great and dangerous rapidity. FÜNEN, an island of the Danish archipelago, separated from Jütland by the strait called Little Belt; area 1,123 square miles. Its shores are deeply indented; its interior is undulating, and marshes. The soil is productive. Prothere are numerous lakes, streams, and ducts, corn, flax, hemp, and fruit. Exports, corn, cattle, horses, honey, fruit, lard, butter, leather. It trades principally with Sweden and Norway. It forms with other islands a province of DEN- MARK (q. v.). Chief towns Odense, the capital; Svendborg, and Nyeborg.
Aiton's Encyclopedia: Bay of. See Tides
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