These 17 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Avondale, Axil, Axim.
a parish of Scotland, in the county Lanark. At the battle of Drumclog, fought near this place June 1, 1679, Grahame of Claverhouse, the famous Viscount Dundee, was defeated by the forces of the Scottish Covenant. A graphic description of this battle is found in Sir Walter Scott's "Old Mortality."
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LOCH, a lake of Scotland, in Argyleshire, 18 miles N. W. of Inverary. It is 23 miles long, by 3 broad. On one of its many islands stand the magnificent ruins of Kilchurn Castle, for centuries the baronial fortress of the Campbells, Earls of Breadalbane. This lake receives the river Urchan; and at its N. W. extremity rises the great mountain of Ben Cruachan, 3,670 feet in height. AX, or AXE, an instrument for cutting or chopping timber or smaller pieces of wood. As a rule, it is used with both hands, while a hatchet, which is smaller, is intended for one.
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a long-handled implement for chopping wood. The axes of primitive man appear to have been chips of flint, sharpedged stones, and bones or clam shells tied to handles by thongs of rawhide. The islanders of the southern Pacific Ocean, it is said, still chop with stone axes. The next step in ax making was the casting of axes of bronze. As soon as the art of casting had been learned, it was easy to cast axes with a hole in the head for the insertion of the handle. The third step was the making of iron and steel axes. In colonial days axes were made by the village blacksmith. The factory-made ax is a recent development. The greatest ax factory in the world, the Collins, of Connecticut, turns out an average of 5,000 axes daily. To save frequent grinding lumbermen now prefer to use a double-bitted ax, having a straight handle. European wood-choppers prefer a wide-bladed ax, much like a broad-ax. They do not like the American ax. Gladstone was fond of chopping. An American friend sent him an American ax, but the statesman did not like to chop with it. 2026 Editor's Note: The stone axe the entry sketches is humanity's oldest and longest-used tool: teardrop 'hand-axes' were made for over a million years, far longer than our own species has existed. Axes even had a modern revival — competitive axe-throwing became a popular bar sport in the 2010s. (Ed: BR 2026-07-09)
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in botany, the angle between the upper side of a leaf and the stem or branch from which it grows. Buds usually grow out from the stem in axils of leaves, and this position is naturally termed axillary. In anatomical terminology, the axilla is the armpit.
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an important station and port on the African Gold Coast, a little to the E. of the mouth of the Ancobrah river.
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a triclinic mineral, called also yanolit and thumite. The crystals are broad with their edges sharp. It is found, both in its normal state and altered, in Europe and in the United States.
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a species of deer, the cervus axis, found in India. It is spotted like the fallow deer, from which, however, the adult males, at least, may be dis tinguished by their possessing round horns without a terminal palm. There are several varieties, if, indeed, they are not distinct s species. All are called by Anglo-Indian sportsmen hog deer. market town of
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a England, in the county Devon, on the Axe, at one time celebrated for its woolen cloth and carpet manufactures, and giving name to an expensive variety of carpet having a thick, soft pile, and also to a cheaper variety. Pop. about 3,000.
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a curious Mexican amphibian, not unlike a newt, from 8 to 10 inches in length, ramified with gills formed of three long, ramified or branch-like processes floating on each side of the neck. It reproduces by laying eggs. The axolotl is esteemed a luxury by the Mexicans. There are a number of species of amblystoma in North America.
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a town in Tigré, a division of Abyssinia, once the capital of an important kingdom, and at one time the great depot of the ivory trade in the Red Sea.
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formerly Huamanga or Guamanga, Guamanga, a town in the Peruvian department of the same name, 220 miles E. S. E. of Lima. Founded by Pizarro in 1539, it is now a handsome and thriving town. Here, on Dec. 9, 1824, the combined forces of Peru and Colombia-the latter then comprising Ecuador, New Granada, and Venezuelatotally defeated the last Spanish army that ever set foot on the continent. Pop. about 300,000; town, about 10,000.
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an animal of Madagascar, so called from its cry, now referred to the lemur family. It is about the size of a hare, has large, flat ears and a bushy tail; large eyes; long, sprawling fingers, the third SO slender as to appear shriveled; color, musk-brown, mixed with black and gray ash; feeds on grubs, fruits, etc.; habits, nocturnal.
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or AKBERY, a very valuable statistical description of the Mogul Empire as it was in the reign of Akbar. It was compiled by Abul Fazi, the Vizier of the Emperor Akbar. There is an English translation of it by Gladwin.
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also AYSHA or
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a town and parish of England, in the county of Kent, 3 miles from Maidstone. In its vicinity is the remarkable monument called Kit's Coty House, a kind of Druidical cromlech of which the origin is obscure, and much contested among antiquaries.
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or AYYUBITES, the Saracenic dynasty founded by Saladin, which in Egypt supplanted the Fatimite caliphs, about 1171 A. D. Several of the descendants of Saladin, known as Ayoubites, afterward ruled in Egypt, Syria, Armenia and Arabia Felix. In the 13th century their power was destroyed by the Mamelukes.
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BROWN, an American educator, born in Memphis, Tenn ., in 1856. He was educated at private schools, studied engineering at the Washington and Lee University and at the Stevens Institute of Technology , and also took post-graduate courses at Johns Hopkins University. He was professor of physics at the College of Technology of Tulane University from 1880 to 1904, and was dean of the college from 1894 to 1900. From 1900 to 1904 he was vice-chairman of the faculty, and from 1901 to 1904 was dean of the academic college. He was acting president of Tulane University in 1904 and in the same year was made president of the University of Tennessee . He was a member of several engineering societies and in 1910 was president of the National Association of State Universities.
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