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.
Wace
Collier's New Encyclopedia: ROBERT, a Norman-French trouvère, calling himself simply Master W Wace; born in the island of Jersey about 1120. His celebrated works are two long romances, the "Roman de Brut" (Brutus), and the "Roman de Rou" (Rollo), both in Norman-French. The "Roman de Brut" is in octosyllabic couplets, is presumably founded on Geoffrey of Monmouth's chronicle, and is of commanding literary importance as the source, or supposed source, from which many subsequent poets drew their Merlin and King Arthur tales. The "Roman de Rou," mostly octosyllabic also, is a chronicle of the Norman dukes. He died about 1180.
Aiton's Encyclopedia: was (1115-1184), an Anglo-Norman poet. Little is known of his life, except that he was born on the Island of Jersey, was named either Robert or Richard, and received the patronage of Henry II . His important works are Brut d'Angleterre and Roman de Rou. See Brut
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Wagtail
Collier's New Encyclopedia: a name of birds included in the family of the warblers, and so termed from their habit of jerking their long tails when running or perching. They inhabit meadow lands and pastures, frequent water pools and streams, are agile runners, and have a rapid flight. The food consists of insects. Their nests, built on the ground, contain from four to six eggs. These birds belong to both Old and New Worlds and migrate S. in winter; but the pied wagtail (Motacilla Yarreliii) is a permanent resident in Great Britain. It is almost wholly black on the upper parts; the under parts are grayish white. Other representative varieties, distributed principally over the European continent and the East, are the white wagtail (M. alba); the gray tagtall Campestris or Boarula), and the yellow or Ray's wagtail (M. sulphurea or Budytes Rayi).
Aiton's Encyclopedia: a small, active bird noted for the activity with which it wags its tail. The name has been used with great latitude and little discrimination to include a great variety of small singing birds in all parts of the world: flycatchers, wood-warblers, and the titlarks. The term wagtail is now restricted to a single genus of several species widely distributed in the Old World. An occasional individual has been seen in America. The common wagtail of Great Britain is a small black and white pied bird of the copse. It lives on insects.
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Walhalla
Collier's New Encyclopedia: a sumptuously decorated Doric octostyle peripteral temple, on the Danube, near Ratisbon; built between 1830-1842, as a national pantheon, consecrated to celebrate Germans of all walks of life. The idea of the erection is derived from the Walhalla, or Valhalla, the ancient paradise of Odin and the Scandinavian deities.
Aiton's Encyclopedia: . See Odin
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Wall Street
Aiton's Encyclopedia: in New York City, a narrow street leading from Broadway to the East River. It occupies the former site of a stockade wall built across the Island of Manhattan by the burghers of New Amsterdam as a defense against the Indians. The United States subtreasury, the assay office, and a number of banks and trust offices are located on this street. As the banking business, however, has outgrown the narrow accommodations of one short street, the term has been extended to include adjacent territory. In this larger sense, Wall Street is applied to the entire financial district of New York City. It includes seven exchanges, the subtreasury, nearly forty banks, about thirty trust companies, and not less than five hundred rail-road, insurance, express, telegraph, mining, and manufacturing offices that handle funds on a large scale. Wall Street is considered the second financial center of the world, being surpassed in the magnitude of its operations only by those of a corresponding financial district in London about the Bank of England .
Collier's New Encyclopedia: a short street in New York City, extending from Broadway, opposite Trinity Church to the East river. It is called the financial center of America, for it is here that the prices of stocks and securities are made, and that men become millionaires or paupers in a day. The New York Stock Exchange, which is the dominant feature of this locality, is the most powerful financial institution in the United States.
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Walloons
Collier's New Encyclopedia: or WALLONS, lineal descendants of the old Gallic Belge, who occupy the Belgian provinces of Hainault, Liège, Namur, and part of South Brabant and west Luxembourg. Th are superior in physique to their Flemish They compatriots, and a large proportion of them have black hair and eyes. Their language, also called Walloon, is a French patois retaining numerous Gallic words, but it somewhat varies in the different provinces. The first permanent colony of New Amsterdam ( New York) contained many Walloons, their present descendants being distinguished from those of Dutch lineage by their French names.
Aiton's Encyclopedia: a people inhabiting southern and southeastern Belgium, the neighboring parts of France, and a few places in Rhenish Prussia. They are descendants of the ancient Belgae, but they are mixed with Germanic and Roman elements. The Walloon language is considered a dialect of the French. In America the name has been applied inappropriately to the Huguenot settlers in New York .
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Wart Hog
Aiton's Encyclopedia: an animal allied to the swine. There are several species. One is a native of northern Africa, another of southern Africa. The wart-hog is so named from the warts which cover the face. Ordinary swine expose two tusks, but the canine teeth of the wart-hog project from both jaws. The wart-hog attains a length of four feet. The body is covered with scanty, reddish gray hair, with a black mane and a black stripe running along the back. Like the wild boar, to which it is related, the wart-hog is fierce and courageous. Like its relative it fights desperately when brought to bay, but it is a much more clumsy and forbidding animal than the boar of the northern huntsman.
Collier's New Encyclopedia: African hog of the genus Phacochœrus. These hogs resemble the true hogs in most of their characters, and particularly in their feet, but remarkably differ from them in their dentition: The number of teeth is much WART HOG reduced; the canines become the large tusks, and in the adult the last molar only is found in each jaw, which grows to an enormous size as in the elephant.
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