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.
Collier's New Encyclopedia: an educational non-sectarian institution in Cambridge, Mass., for women; founded in 1879; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 128; students, 561; president, L. R. Briggs, D.
Aiton's Encyclopedia: . See Harvard
Covered by Collier's New Encyclopedia and Aiton's Encyclopedia
Aiton's Encyclopedia: a familiar garden vegetable. It belongs to the mustard family. It is thought to be a native of temperate Asia, but there is no known region in which the radish now grows wild. As radishes may be grown closely together and may be had for the table four weeks from the time the seed is sown, it is said that a small plot of ground sown to radishes will produce more food than if planted to any other vegetable known. The list of varieties is a long one. The chief types are the early scarlet, having a globular root, and the long scarlet, having a root of parsnip shape. See Vegetables ; Mustard
Collier's New Encyclopedia: the Raphanus sativus, the garden radish. It was cultivated in ancient times in India, whence it found its way to Europe and the United States .
Covered by Aiton's Encyclopedia and Collier's New Encyclopedia
The Encyclopedia of Founding: The radius of a circle is just half its diameter; in other words, it is a straight line drawn from the centre to the circumference. See CIRCLE.
Aiton's Encyclopedia: . See Circle
Covered by The Encyclopedia of Founding and Aiton's Encyclopedia
An Encyclopaedia of Occultism: Whose name means "the tormenter," is one of the Hindoo devils. He is worshipped as a means of averting the attacks of evil spirits; and appears to be of a truly devilish character.
Collier's New Encyclopedia: in Indian mythology, the demon who is imagined to be the cause of the eclipses of sun and moon.
Covered by An Encyclopaedia of Occultism and Collier's New Encyclopedia
Collier's New Encyclopedia: ROBERT, an English philanthropist, the originator of Sundayschools; born in Glouceter, England, Sept. 14, 1735. His father was printer and proprietor of the "Gloucester Journal," and he succeeded to the business, keeping it till 1802. His pity for the misery and ignorance of many of the children in his native city led him, about 1780, to start a school where they might be taught to read and to repeat the Catechism. Raikes lived to see his schools widely spread over England. He died April 5, 1811.
Aiton's Encyclopedia: raks, Robert (1735-1811), the founder of Sunday schools. His father, of the same name, was proprietor of the Gloucester Journal. Robert inherited the paper and continued the enterprise for forty years. In 1780 he became interested with friends in the question of Biblical instruction for children, the outcome being the establishment of the first Sunday school . Some account of the school given in the Journal attracted attention in London and brought him into prominence. He lived to see many hundreds of Sunday schools established.
Covered by Collier's New Encyclopedia and Aiton's Encyclopedia
Collier's New Encyclopedia: an instrument or contrivance for measuring the amount of rain which falls on a given surface. They are made of various forms. One simple form consists of a copper funnel five to seven inches in diameter, inserted in the neck of a bottle placed on a stand and protected from the sun's rays, to prevent evaporation. The rain collected in the bottle is measured in a glass jar having one-tenth the area of the funnel, and graduated so that a rainfall of onetenth of an inch collected by the funnel is measured by one inch on the side of the vessel. The stand should be placed at a sufficient distance from any buildings, etc., to prevent their affecting the amount falling into the funnel.
Aiton's Encyclopedia: an instrument used to measure the amount of rainfall at any given place. The Smithsonian rain gauge consists of a tube of brass, ten inches deep and three-fourths of an inch in inside diameter, fitted with a wide funnel-shaped mouth two inches in diameter. The depth of water collected is measured by a scale divided into tenths and hundredths of an inch. The moisture falling within a two-inch circle is collected in a small tube to secure greater accuracy of measurement in case of slight rainfall. A much coarser gauge is serviceable in case of a heavy rain.
Covered by Collier's New Encyclopedia and Aiton's Encyclopedia
Collier's New Encyclopedia: buttercup, crowfoot; the typical genus of the order Ranunculaceæ. Sepals five, rarely three, caducous; petals five, or more, or wanting, glandular at the base; stamens many; fruit of many achenes, each with one ascending seed. Known species about 160, from temperate regions. R. sceleratus was formerly used by beggars to create artificial sores; it is poisonous when raw, but is eaten boiled by the Wallachians. The juice of R. thora was used by the Swiss hunters to envenom their javelins. R. glacialis is a powerful sudorific. Many species are very beautiful, and are cultivated in gardens.
Aiton's Encyclopedia: . See Buttercup
Covered by Collier's New Encyclopedia and Aiton's Encyclopedia
Aiton's Encyclopedia: raz'ber-ry, a popular fruit-bearing bramble. The fruit differs from the blackberry chiefly in separating from the receptacle when ripe. The drupelets of the raspberry come away from the receptacle in a cup-shaped fruit. In reality the fruit is not a berry at all. A berry, as a grape, a tomato, a cranberry, a partridge berry , a currant, or a gooseberry, contains more than one seed. Fruits with one hard seed, as a plum, peach, cherry, elderberry, are stone fruits. A raspberry, like a blackberry, is really a collection of small stone fruits. Our red and our black garden raspberries are derived from native plants of eastern North America . The "fire raspberry" from Japan is cultivated for its ornamental autumn foliage, and the Rocky Mountain raspberry, for its fine white flowers. See Blackberry
Collier's New Encyclopedia: a shrubby plant with many suckers. Found in America and in the N. of Europe and Asia. The species in gardens is the wild plant, greatly improved by cultivation. The fruit resembles the strawberry in not becoming ning acid in the stomach. There are red and yellow varieties.
Covered by Aiton's Encyclopedia and Collier's New Encyclopedia
Collier's New Encyclopedia: a keen-edged steel instrument for shaving off the beard or hair. The great center of the razor manufacture is Sheffield, England. The savages of Polynesia still use two pieces of flint of the same size, or pieces of shells or sharks' teeth ground to a fine edge for shaving.
Aiton's Encyclopedia: . See Barber ; Cutlery
Covered by Collier's New Encyclopedia and Aiton's Encyclopedia
Collier's New Encyclopedia: in the Established Church of England a clergyman who has charge of a parish, and has the parsonage and tithes; the clergyman of a parish where the tithes are not impropriate, as distinguished from a vicar. In the Roman Catholic Church, the head of a religious house; among the Jesuits, the head of a house that is a seminary or college. Also the principal of a university in France and Scotland, also the heads of Exeter and Lincoln Colleges, Oxford. In Scotd the headmaster of an academy, or important public school.
Aiton's Encyclopedia: . See Episcopal Church
Covered by Collier's New Encyclopedia and Aiton's Encyclopedia