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: the Plotus anhinga. According to Ripley and Dana, this bird is a constant resident in Florida, and the lower parts of Louisiana, Alabama, and Georgia; in spring it goes up as far N. as North Carolina, breeding along the coast; in these various localities it bears the name of water crow, Grecian lady, water turkey, and cormorant.
Aiton's Encyclopedia: . See Anhinga
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Aiton's Encyclopedia: a famous military road built by the Romans in Great Britain . It started at Dover and led northwestward through Canterbury and London along the boundaries of the present counties of Leicester and Warwick to Chester on the Dee. It may be described as a military road leading across country from the Strait of Dover to the Irish Sea. Branches led to York, Carlisle, and Newcastle. It was substantially built. Traces are still in existence. Portions of the old roadbed are still important highways. A street in London retains the name. By the treaty of Wedmore, concluded by Alfred the Great in 885, Watling was made the boundary between his Saxon kingdom of the south and the Danish kingdom of the north. See Road
Collier's New Encyclopedia: one of the great Roman highways of Britain, commencing at Dover, passing through Canterbury and Rochester to London, and thence to Chester and York, and N. in two branches to Carlisle and the Wall in the neighborhood of Newcastle. Traces of the ancient road are still to be found in many parts of its course, and in some it is still an important highway; a street in London retains its name. It was the line of division in the treaty between Alfred and Guthrum the Dane, and it is still the boundary between Warwickshire and Leicestershire. Of the "Waetlings" nothing is now remembered. Perhaps also survives in the name Wattlesborough, a place on Watling street near Wroxeter (Uriconium).
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The Encyclopedia of Founding: Beeswax is a secretion of the honey-bee. In its ordinary state it is yellow, but is bleached white by exposing it for some time in thin slices to the joint action of air and moisture. Modellers' wax consists of beeswax 13, rosin 12, paraffin-wax 26, linseed-oil 4; the rosin and oil to be well boiled together before adding the other ingredients. Sculptors' wax is composed of one part each of tallow, turpentine, and pitch to ten parts of beeswax. See VEGETABLE WAX.
Collier's New Encyclopedia: a name given to various animal and vegetable substances having analogous physical peculiarities, peculiarities, but differing somewhat in chemical constitution and in other properties. They are all hydrocarbon compounds allied to oils and fats, but common wax differs from the ordinary fats in containing no glycerin.
Aiton's Encyclopedia: . See Myrtle ; Beeswax; Sealing-Wax; Candles
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Aiton's Encyclopedia: wenz'da, the fourth day of the week. The name is Scandinavian, meaning Odin's or Woden's day. The Swedish name is Odensdag. The Germans call the day Mittwoch or midweek, a very appropriate name. In the Church of England, the American Episcopal, and the Roman Catholic churches, Ash-Wednesday is the first day of Lent.
Collier's New Encyclopedia: the name of the fourth day of the week (in Latin, dies Mercurii, day of Mercury), derived from the old Scandinavian deity Odin or Woden.
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Collier's New Encyclopedia: the hall of the old palace of Westminster, in London; erected by Richard II. (1397-1399) on the foundations of a structure built by William Rufus. It has a fine porch, and its hammer-beam roof of carved timber is considered the most notable of its kind; length of the building 290 feet, 110 feet. breadth 68 feet, and height The building is closely associated with many stirring events in English history; but it is chiefly remarkable as the place where were held such great state trials as those of the Chancellor More, Lady Jane Grey, the Earl of Strafford, King Charles I., and Warren Hastings, and as the center of the highest English courts of law till these were removed to the new buildings erected for their accommodation. The hall now serves as a vestibule to the Houses of Parliament.
Aiton's Encyclopedia: a building adjoining the British Houses of Parliament on the west. See Parliament
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The Encyclopedia of Founding: Slake the lime in boiling water, and to 3 gallons of whitewash add 1 pint of molasses and 1 pint of salt, well stirred when adding the ingredients. Good for fences and out-door buildings. An excellent fire-proof whitewash is made by adding to every 5 parts of whitewash 1 part of potash. Soak glue, 1/4 pound, over night in tepid water; on the next day place it in a tin vessel with water 1 quart; boil, and stir till the glue dissolves. Next put 7 pounds Paris white (sulphate of baryta) into another vessel, add hot water, and stir until it becomes milky. Add the sizing, stir well, and apply with a kalsominer's fine brush. This is nearly equal to kalsomine made from zinc-white. See LIME; ZINC-WHITE.
Aiton's Encyclopedia: a composition of quicklime and water used for coating rough surfaces. It is an excellent germ killer much used for the interior of chicken houses, etc. In the more thrifty parts of the Southern States, the cabins seen from a passing train are neatly whitewashed. A finer whitewash, made of whiting, glue, and water, is used for plastered walls. In the game of politics, a "whitewash" is a report of an investigating committee that hushes up a matter and reports favorably upon the wrong doings of a delinquent. See Lime
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Collier's New Encyclopedia: KATE DOUGLAS, an American author; born (Smith) in Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 28, 1857. Her youth was spent in Hollis, Me., and she attended Abbott Academy in Andover, Mass. She went to California in 1876, where
Aiton's Encyclopedia: Kate Douglas. See Riggs ; Kate Douglas Wiggin
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Collier's New Encyclopedia: or WINANDERcalled from its beauty "Queen of the Lakes"; partly in the county of Lancaster, and partly divides that county from Westmoreland. It is nearly 11 miles long and about 1 mile in extreme breadth; fed by the Brathay and the Rothay, the waters of which become united before entering the lake, and by the streams which drain the neighboring lakelets of Esthwaite, Troutbeck, and Blelham; and and, lying 134 feet above sealevel, discharges its surplus waters S. into Morecambe Bay by the Leven. Next to Wast Water, Windermere is the deepest of all the English lakes, its greatest depth being 240 feet, while Wast Water is 270 feet deep. It contains a number of islands, the largest being 28 acres in Soft rich beauty is the principal area. characteristic of the islands of the lake, of the wooded shores, and of the scenery around; there being a total absence of that wildness and sublimity which characterize some of the other lakes, except at the N. end, where Langdale Pikes, Harrison Stickle, Sea Fell, and Bow Fell stand forward prominently in the landscape.
Aiton's Encyclopedia: . See Westmoreland ; Lake Poets; England
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