These 12 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Acapulco, Acarnania, Acastus.
a seaport in Mexico on the Pacific Ocean; has a large and nearly land-locked harbor, but the climate is unwholesome. It exports hides, cedar timber, and fruit. Nearly the whole city was destroyed by earthquakes in 1799, in 1837, and again in 1852. Pop. about 7,500.
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or AKARNANIA, a province of ancient Greece, forming the westernmost portion; named, according to tradition, from Acarnan, son of Alamæon, who settled the region. At the begin ning of the Peloponnesian war the inhabitants were rude and piratical, and they always remained behind the other Greeks in civilization. They were good slingers and faithful and courageous soldiers. Under the Romans it was a province of Macedonia. It is now, with Ætolia , a province of the Grecian kingdom. Pop. about 150,000; capital Missolonghi .
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Son of Pelias , king of Iolcus , one of the Argonauts and the Calydonian hunters. Acca Laurentia or Larentia. The wife of the shepherd Faustulus and the nurse of Romulus and Remus, after they had been taken from the she-wolf. She seems to be connected with the worship of the Lares, from which her name Larentia is probably derived.
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that stress or emphasis given by the voice to a certain syllable or syllables of a word, or to certain notes in a bar of music; also, the peculiar intonation of one spoken language when compared with another. The term further denotes marks used in printing or writing to show the position of the stress. There is a certain analogy between accent and emphasis , emphasis doing for whole words or clauses of sentences what accent does for single syllables. Marks sometimes called accents are used in mathematics, e. g., a' + b (read a prime plus b prime). Accent in music is the greater intensity given to certain notes, as distinguished from their length in time and their quality or timbre. In geometry and trigonometry a circle at the right of a figure indicates degrees, one mark, minutes, two marks, seconds of a degree, as 13° 4' 5". In mensuration and engineering, the mark denotes feet , inches, and lines, as 4' 6" 10"".
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a bill of exchange drawn on one who agrees absolutely or conditionally to pay it, according to the tenor of the document itself. To render it so valid that, if the drawee fail to liquidate it, the drawer may be charged with costs, the promise of the drawer must be in writing under or upon the back of the bill.
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in law, one who is not the chief actor in an offense nor present at its commission, but still is connected with it in some other way. Accessories may become so before the fact or after the fact. Sir Matthew Hale defines an accessory before the fact as one who, being absent at the time of the crime committed, does yet procure, counsel , or command another to commit a crime. If the procurer be present when the evil deed is being done, he is not an accessory, but a principal . An accessory after the fact is one who, knowing a felony to have been committed, receives, relieves, comforts, and assists the felon.
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an unforeseen occurrence, particularly if it be of a calamitous In logic: (a) Whatever does not really constitute an essential part of a person or thing; as the clothes one wears , the saddle on a horse, etc. (b) The qualities or attributes of a person or thing, as opposed to the substance. Thus bitterness, hardness, etc., are attributes, and not part of the substance in which they inhere . (c) That which may be absent from anything, leaving its essence still unimpaired. Accidents, in logic, are of two kinds, separable and inseparable. If walking be the accident of a particular man, it is a separable one, for he would not cease to be that man though he stood still; while on the contrary, if Spaniard is the accident connected with him, it is an inseparable one, since he never can cease to be, ethnologically considered, what he was born. In grammar, a property attached to a word which nevertheless does not enter into its essential definition.
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a form of insurance which pays persons a stated sum in compensation for bodily injury. Usually it is provided that insurance is made only against injuries caused by violent accidental or external means. It does not cover self-inflicted injury. There were in 1920 about fifty companies engaged in this form of insurance, although not all of these were limited to accident insurance. Losses paid for this form of insurance aggregate about $10,000,000 yearly.
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in heraldry, the ceremony by which in medieval times one was dubbed a knight. On the question what this was, antiquaries are not agreed. It has been made an embrace round the neck, a kiss, or a slight blow upon the cheek or shoulder. well-known keyed
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a instrument with metallic reeds. The sounds are produced by the vibration of the several metallic tongues, which are of different sizes, air being meanwhile supplied by the movement of the opposite sides of the instrument, so as to constitute a bellows. The accordion was introduced into America from Germany about 1828.
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in banking, commerce, law, and ordinary language, a registry of pecuniary transactions; such a record as is kept by merchants, by housewives, and by all prudent people, with the view of, day by day, ascertaining their financial position. A bill or paper sent in by tradespeople to those who do not pay for goods on delivery. An open account, or an account current, is, commercially, one in which the balance has not been struck; in banking, it is one which may be added to or drawn upon at any time, as opposed to a deposit account, where notice is required for withdrawals.
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a profession which has grown out of the increased complexity of keeping and adjusting business transactions. It is concerned chiefly with the problem of classification of uncertain items in the course of business and with the problems of valuation. The skilled accountant must have a wide knowledge of business in general and a special knowledge of the field in which he is engaged. In recent years the principles of accounting have been in increasingly applied to the control of production. This is known as cost accounting. The department of accounting has become an important one in recent years in nearly all schools and colleges which have a business department. There are also many schools which give instruction only in accounting. Chartered accountants are able to command a high rate of pay for their services. ACCUMULATOR. See STORAGE BAT- TERY.
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