These 11 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Azote, Azotine, Azov.
a name formerly given to nitrogen; hence substances containing nitrogen and forming part of the structure of plants and animals are known as azotized bodies. Such are albumen, fibrine, casein, gelatine, urea, kreatine, etc.
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a substance procured by decomposing wool by the action of steam at 150° C. under a pressure of five atmospheres; the product, afterward dried by evaporation, contains nitrogen completely soluble in water. Azotine is mixed with dried blood for a fertilizer.
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Sea of, a shallow, Russian branch of the Black Sea . It is eighty miles wide and perhaps twice that distance in length. Area, 14,000 square miles. It nowhere exceeds fifty feet in depth. It receives the Don. It abounds in fish. There are several safe harbors. The waters, particularly of the western part, are so offensive as to win the name of "The Putrid Sea." The Russians have constructed a military road along the coast of Crimea. See Aral ; Caspian 2026 Editor's Note: The shallow Sea of Azov became a war zone in our century: it borders Ukraine's Mariupol , besieged and largely destroyed in Russia's 2022 invasion, and Russia's 2018 bridge across the Kerch Strait — its outlet to the Black Sea — turned the whole sea into a strategic prize once more, much as the Crimean War road here suggests. (Ed: BR 2026-07-02)
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SEA OF, named after the town, is a large gulf of the Black Sea, formed by the Crimean peninsula, or rather an inland lake connected with the Black Sea by the Strait of Yenikale or Kertch (ancient Bosporus Cimmerius), 28 miles long, and barely 4 wide at the narrowest. The intricate Siwash or Putrid Sea, which is just a succession of swamps, is cut off from the W. portion of the Sea of Azov by the long, narrow slip of low, sandy land called the Peninsula of Arabat. The ancient name of the Sea of Azov was Palus Mæotis or Mæotic marsh, from the Mæote dwelling on its shores; by the Turks it is called Balik-Denghis, or fish sea, from its abundance of fish. The water is almost fresh. The whole sea is shallow, from 3 to 52 feet deep; and measuring 235 by 110 miles, it occupies an area of 14,500 square miles. The largest river emptying into it is the Don. During the Crimean War, an expedition, having on board 16,500 English, French, and Turks, was sent to the sea in May, 1855, which bombarded the ports, and cut off supplies intended for Sebastopol,
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a town in the S. of Russia, on the left bank of the Don, 7 miles from The inhabitants depend its mouth. mostly on fish-curing. Pop. about 30,000. Azov was built 9 miles from the site of the ancient Greek colony of Tanaïs; and when, in the 13th century, it was taken possession of by the Genoese, they altered its name to Tana. They were driven out of it by Timur (Tamerlane) in 1392. In 1471 it was taken by the Turks, and in 1696 by Peter the Great; and it was finally ceded to Russia in 1774.
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a town in the Spanish province of Guipuzcoa, in a fine valley on the Urola, 18 miles S. W. of San Sebastian. A mile from it is the famous convent of Loyola, now converted into a museum (1683). It comprises a tower of the Santa Casa, in which St. Ignatius of Loyola, the great founder of the Jesuits, was born in 1491. Here every year in July a great festival is held in his honor, to which pilgrims flock from all quarters.
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BAHR-EL, or the BLUE RIVER, the principal stream of Abyssinia, which, after a winding course through Abyssinia and Sennaar, falls into the Nile above Gerri.
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or AZURINE, blue dyes belonging to the coal-tar class.
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DOMENICO ALBERTO (azö'nē), an Italian jurist, born in Sassari, Sardinia, in 1749. He became judge of the Tribunal of Commerce at Nice, and in 1795 published a work in which he endeavored to reduce maritime laws to fixed principles, and which appeared in French in 1805, under the title of "Droit Maritime de l'Europe." Napoleon appointed him one of the commissioners for compiling the new commercial code. He died Jan. 23, 1827.
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the heraldic term for the color blue, represented in engraving by horizontal lines.
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a fresh water fish of the same genus as the roach, chub and minnow; called also blue roach.
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