These 12 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Amulet, Amy Robsart, Amycus.
anything hung around the neck, placed like a bracelet on the wrist, or otherwise attached to the person, as an imagined preservative against sickness, witchcraft, or other evils, amulets were common in the ancient world, and they are so yet in nations where ignorance prevails.
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Grand President of Hades, and one of the princes of the infernal monarchy. He appears there enveloped with flame, but on earth, in human form. He teaches the secrets of astrology and of the liberal arts, and gives faithful servants. He reveals to those who possess his favour, the hiding-place of treasures guarded by demons. Thirtysix of the infernal legions are under his command. The fallen angels acknowledge his orders, and he hopes that at the end of 200,000 years, he shall return to heaven to occupy the seventh throne.
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in Scott's Kenilworth, the unacknowledged wife of Dudley, Earl of Leicester. From her place of concealment she fled to Kenilworth, but was induced to depart on promise of being joined by her husband. With the earl's consent she was murdered by the villain Varney. The chief incidents of the story are founded on fact. The Earl of Leicester, desiring to obtain the consent of the great nobles to his marriage with Queen Elizabeth, was believed to have procured the murder of the unfortunate Lady Amy, his wife. See Scott ; Kenilworth
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Son of Poseidon (Neptune), king of the Bebryces, celebrated for his skill in boxing. He used to challenge strangers to box with him, and slay them; but when the Argonauts came to his dominions, Pollux killed him in a boxing-match. Anaces or Anactes. "The Kings," a name frequently given to Castor and Pollux .
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a crystalline principle existing in the kernel of bitter almonds, the leaves of the prunus laurocerasus, and various other plants, which, by distillation, yield hydrocyanic acid. It is obtained, by extraction with boiling alcohol, from the paste or cake of bitter almonds, which remains after the fixed oil has been separated by pressure. When obtained pure, it has a sweetish, somewhat bitter taste, and is not poisonous, and, when treated with alkaline solvents, ammonia is expelled, and amygdalic acid, C20H20O12, is produced.
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an igneous crystalline, or, as the case may be, vitreous rock (lava), containing numerous cells, which owe their origin to the segregation and expansion of steam, with which all lavas are more or less charged at the time of their eruption. The cells vary in size from mere pores up to cavities several inches, or even feet, in diameter. The cells are generally flattened or drawn out in the direction of flow of the lava, and are frequently filled with mineral matter (amygdules), subsequently introduced by infiltrating water. This is the origin of many of the agates and so-called "Scotch pebbles" of jewelers.
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a genus of plants belonging to the order drupaceæ, or almond-worts. It contains, among other species, the common peach, amygdalus persica, with the nectarine nectarina), the almond, amygdalus communis, with the variety amara, (variety nec or bitter almond.
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NITRITE OF (C6H11NO2), a valuable drug which must not be confounded with nitrate of amyl, may be prepared by the action of nitric acid on fusel oil (amylic alcohol). It is a very powerful remedy in all convulsive diseases, and is of especial value in angina pectoris, as well as in asthma. Owing to its volatile nature it is usually kept in small glass or composition globes containing from two to five drops, one of which, when crushed in the handkerchief, and the vapor breathed, will often give immediate relief. ANABAPTISTS
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Important: Safety Warning This page presents medical treatment from an era before modern medicine. The remedies described are ineffective against the conditions named, and some of the ingredients or doses are harmful. Do not use them to treat any illness; consult a qualified medical professional. This information has been left in for historical purposes but should not be acted upon. the fifth in the series of alcohol radicals whose general for- CnH2n methyl mula is +1, and of which and ethyl are the first two members. It has an agreeable smell and burning taste. It enters into a large number of chemical compounds, most of which as, for instance, bromide, chloride, iodide, etc. are derived from amylic alcohol, which bears precisely the same relation to amyl that ordinary alcohol bears to ethyl, C2H5.
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a term used both in chemistry and botany, and generally equivalent to "starchy." Amyloids are substances like starch, dextrine, sugar, gum, etc., which consist of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. The animal body, chemically considered, is a mixture of proteids, amyloids or carbohydrates, and fats, plus. water and mineral constituents, and the normal food always contains these constituents. Of the three items, proteids are, however, absolutely essential, amyloids and fats only desirable accessories. A compound radical called amyl is formed by the decomposition of starch in a peculiar fermentation-the amylic fermentation.
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an exogenous plants. The amyriorder of daceæ have a panicled inflorescence, hypogynous stamina, double the petals in number, the fruit sub-drupaceous, samnumb aroid, or leguminous, with from one to two seeds, the leaves abounding in resin. They occur in the tropics of India and America, in the latter region extending as far N. as Florida.
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a-nab'a-sis, a literary name from the Greek, meaning literally a journey upward. Xenophon's Anabasis is an account of the unfortunate expedition of the younger Cyrus against his brother Artaxerxes, 401 B. C. It is written in a simple style. It is the first Greek prose usually read in preparing for college. Xenophon was one of the commanders of a force of 10,000 Greeks, who started from the coast of Asia Minor in the spring of 401 B. C. and marched as far as Cunaxa near Babylon, where Cyrus was killed and the Asiatic portion of his forces routed. The 10,000, however, held together in the face of a host of half a million Persians. After many hardships they regained their native land. The retreat is one of the most famous in history. In celebrity it ranks with Napoleon's retreat from Moscow. The expedition demonstrated the superiority of Greek discipline, and paved the way for the final conquest of Persia two generations later. See Xenophon 2026 Editor's Note: Xenophon's tale of ten thousand Greeks fighting their way home to the sea — their cry 'The sea! The sea!' one of history's famous moments — became the template for a modern cult story: the 1979 film The Warriors transplants the same desperate journey home to a night in gang-ruled New York. (Ed: BR 2026-07-07)
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