Bonze
the name given by the Portuguese to any member of the Buddhist priesthood in Japan. Thence the name spread to the priests of the same faith in China and the adjacent regions.
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Single-source entries: B (110)
These 12 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Bonze, Book Muslin, Book of Celestial Chivalry.
Book Muslin
a variety of muslin heavily starched and highly calendered. It is used for covering books, for linings, and similar purposes.
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Book of Celestial Chivalry
Appeared in the middle of the sixteenth century. It is of Spanish origin; and treats of suppositious knightly adventures, in a semi-romantic, semi-mystical vein. 66
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Book of Martyrs
a history of the persecution of Reformers in England, by John Fox.
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Bookkeeping
the art of keeping books in which pecuniary transactions are so unremittingly and so accurately entered that one is able at any time to ascertain the exact state of his financial affairs, or of any portion of them, with clearness and expedition. The art, in a certain undeveloped state, must have existed from immemorial ant antiquity, but it received such improvement and impulse at Venice as to make that comparatively modern city to be considered its birthplace. The_first known writer on bookkeeping was Lucas di Borgo, who 8-Vol. II-Cyc published a treatise on the subject in Italian in 1495. It is generally divided into bookkeeping by single and bookkeeping by double entry. Bookkeeping by single entry is imperfect, and is scarcely fitted even for very limited establish ments. Bookkeeping by double entry being first practiced in Venice, Genoa, and the adjacent towns, is often called the Italian method. In bookkeeping by double entry all transactions inward fall under four heads: cash, bills, book debts, and stock. There are, moreover, a cash book, a bill book, a book for book debts -called the ledger and a book for the record of stock, that is, stock on hand. There are various other books in a large establishment.
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Boom
a Dutch word akin to beam. In a ship a boom is a long pole or a spar, jutting out from a mast to extend the lower edge of a sail. In Nelson's battleships the boom was from thirty to fifty feet in length, and was from six to fifteen inches in diameter at the larger end. In logging, a boom is a chain of logs fastened end to end, stretched across a river, or other body of water, to confine floating timber. When lumbermen desire to tow logs across a lake, they unload them on the ice and surround them with a boom. The boom is then chained to a tree on the shore. After the ice has gone in the spring the boom is loosened from the shore. With its contents it may then be towed by a steam launch or dragged with a cable and windlass. When a number of sawmills are located near together, booms, enclosures, or slips are made by long lines of logs lying in the water parallel to each other. The logs for each mill are driven in at the upper end of the slip and float downward to the place where they are wanted. "Boom scale" is a lumberman's expression for the value of the logs safely in the boom.
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Boone (City and county-seat of Boone)
city and county-seat of Boone co., Ia.; on the Chicago and Northwestern, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul and other railroads; 36 miles N. N. W. of Des Moines, the State capital. It is an important milling, manufacturing, and coal mining center, and in the vicinity are large deposits of fire and pottery clays. The chief industries are the manufacture of flour, brick and tile, and pottery, and the mining and shipping of coal. Pop. (1910) 10,347; (1920) 12,- 451.
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Boone (DANIEL the pioneer of Kentucky)
DANIEL, the pioneer of Kentucky, born in Bucks co., Pa., Feb. 11, 1735. He was a Colonel in the United States service, and signalized himself by his many daring exploits against the Indians, and also by his extensive surveys and explorations of the State of Kentucky. In 1793 he removed to upper Louisiana, then belonging to the Spaniards, and was appointed by them commandant of a district there. He was one of the most successful of the enterprising American pioneers of the 18th century, and may be said to have explored, and aided in the settlement of the country from the Allegheny Mountains to the frontier of Missouri. Many places have been named in his honor. He died in Missouri, Sept. 26, 1820.
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Boonton
a city of New Jersey in Morris co. It is on the Lackawanna railroad and the Rockaway river and the Morris canal. Its beautiful situation has made it a favorite residential town. It has important industries, including the manufacture of storage batteries, hats, bronze, silk, and rubber. The town has DANIEL BOONE a public library, an opera house, and other public buildings. Pop. (1910) 4,930; (1920) 5,372.
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Booro
one of the Molucca Islands in the Indian Archipelago, W. of Ceram and Amboyna, belonging to the Dutch. It is oval in shape, 92 miles long and 70 broad. Though mountainous and thickly covered with wood, it is productive, yielding rice, dye woods, etc. Pop. about 15,000.
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Booroojird
a town, Persia, province of Irak-ajemi, in a fertile and well cultivated valley. Pop. about 25,000.
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Boot
an article of dress, generally of leather, covering the foot and extend ing to a greater or less distance up the leg. Hence the name was given to an instrument of torture made of iron, or a combination of iron and wood, fastened on to the leg, between which and the boot wedges were introduced and driven in by repeated blows of a mallet, with such violence as to crush both muscles and bones. The special object of this form of torture was to extort a confession of guilt from an accused person. See also BOOTS AND SHOES. BOÖTES (bō-e'tēs), in astronomy, a constellation called also Arctophylax, or the Bear Driver. It is situated between Corona Borealis on the E., and Cor Caroli, or the Greyhounds, on the W. It contains 54 stars, including 1 of the first magnitude, Arcturus, 7 of the third, and 10 of the fourth. Its mean declination is 20° N., and its mean right ascension is 212°; 212°; its center is, therefore, on the meridian on June 9.
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