These 12 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Bogey, Boghead Coal, Bogie.
Perhaps derived from the Slavonic bog, god. Other forms of the name of this ancient sprite, spectre or goblin are bug-a-boo, boo (Yorkshire), boggart, bogle ( Scotland ), boggle, bo-guest, bar-guest, boll, boman, and bock. Bullbeggar is probably a form of bu and bogey allied to boll (Northern), an apparition.
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a brown cannel coal of Scotland, found at Boghead, near Bathgate, and very valuable for gas and oil making.
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The name sometimes given to swivelled trucks and carriages used about the foundry or forge. Bog-iron Ore occurs chiefly in alluvial soils, in bogs, meadows, lakes, etc. It is a mineral of very variable composition, but regarded as consisting essentially of peroxide of iron and water--peroxide of iron 60 per cent, water 20 per cent. Phosphoric acid is usually present in quantities varying from 2 to 11 per cent; silicic acid, aluminia, oxide of manganese, and other substances which seem accidentally present make up the rest. See ORES.
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A magical word greatly used to frighten children. "Boe," a Greek word is synonymous with the Latin "Clamor" signifying our English "cry;" and it is possible that the cry of the ox "boo' may have suggested this exclamation, as this sound would quite naturally be very terrifying to a young child. One also suspects some connection between this monosyllable and the "Bogle-boe or bwgwly of Welsh people. According to Warton, it was the name of a fierce Gothic general, whose name like those of other great conquerors was remembered as a word of terror. 66
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a religious society, instituted in Prague, about the middle of the 15th century, originally composed of remnants of the Hussites. In 1453 they settled on the borders of Silesia and Moravia. The Thirty Years' War entirely broke up the societies of the Brethren; but afterward they united again, though persecuted. Their exodus and settlement, in 1722, on the estates of Count Zinzendorf, in Saxony, occasioned the formation of the Herrnhuters. See MORAVIANS.
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or BOËMOND, first hitherto elective, became hereditary. sovereign of Antioch, was son of Robert Guiscard, and distinguished himself in the first crusade, in 1096. He besieged and took Antioch, of which he was made Prince by the Crusaders, and established there a little kingdom, which existed nearly 200 years. Besieged by the Saracens, he completely defeated them; but was soon after captured, and remained their prisoner er two years. He subsequently visited Europe, married a daughter of the King of France, and got the emperor to acknowledge his title. Died in Italy in 1111. Six princes of his name succeeded him in the sovereignty of Antioch, the last, Bohemond VII., being dethroned in 1288.
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one of the Philippine Islands, belonging to the Visayas or Bisayas group. It has an area of about 1,300 square miles and an estimated population of about 250,000. Sugar cane is grown and the island is reputed rich in gold deposits. The most important town is Tagbilaran, a port on the S. W. coast. The Visayas dialect prevails throughout Bohol.
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MATTEO MARIA, COUNT OF SCANDIANO, one of the greater Italian poets, was born in 1434 at Scandiano. He studied at the University of Ferrara, and, in 1462, married the daughter of the Count of Norellara. He lived principally at the court of Ferrara on terms of intimate friendship with Duke Borso and Duke Ercole, by the latter of whom he was employed on important diplomatic missions, and appointed, in 1481, Governor of Modena, and, in 1487, Governor of Reggio. He died at Reggio, in 1494. Boiardo has been called the "Flower of Chivalry." His fame rests on the "Orlando Innamorato" (1486), a long narrative poem in which the romances of the Carlovingian cycle are recast into "ottava rima." Full of rich and graceful fancy, this is the only work in which the spirit of chivalry is found in union with the spirit of the Renaissance. Ariosto adopted Boiardo's characters and magic machinery, and brought his narrative to a close in the "Orlando Furioso." Boiardo's other works comprise various Latin eclogues, a versification of Lucian's "Timon," translations of Herodotus, the "Ass" of Lucian, and the "Golden Ass" of Apuleius.
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a family of ophidiæ (serpents) belonging to the suborder colubrina. They have no poison fangs. They have the rudiments of hind limbs. The chief genera are boa, python and eryx.
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a powerful Celtic people who dwelt originally in Transalpine Gaul, part of whom settled in the modern Bohemia, and bequeathed their name to that country.
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a disease called by medical men furunculus. It is a phlegmonous tumor, and was the earliest to be used. It prewhich rises externally, attended with redness and pain, and sometimes with a violent, burning heat. Ultimately it becomes pointed, breaks, and emits pus. A therefore, has a minimum efficiency. Afblind boil is one which does not suppurate.
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NICOLAS (bwä-lō'), a French poet, born at Paris, Nov. 1, 1636. He was educated at Beauvais, and received both a legal and a theological training. In his 21st year, however, he inherited a competence, and decided to follow a purely literary life. His first work appeared under the name of Despréaux. He published his satirical "Adieux d'un Poète à la Ville de Paris," in 1660, and, in 1663, we find him united with Molière, La Fontaine, and Racine, in the famous "society of four." In 1666 he published a collection of satires from which the royal privilege was for a time withdrawn, through the influence of Chapelain, one of the writers whom he had ribbeted. Boileau, however, soon gained the favor of the king, who awarded him various pensions, and in 1677 appointed him, along with Racine, to the post of royal historiographer. "L'Art Poétique," which contains the exposition of his literary creed, and which was imitated by Pope in the "Essay on Criticism," was published in 1674, along with four cantos of the "Lutrin." Between 1669 and 1677 Boileau published nine epistles, written, like his satires, on the Horatian model. In his last years Boileau retired to Auteuil, where he died March 13, 1711.
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