Briza
a genus of grasses with panicles consisting of awnless spikelets much compressed laterally, and cordate deltoid in form.
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Each of these 16 subjects appears in only one of the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. None is long enough to carry a page by itself, so they are gathered here by letter. Anything that grows moves out to a page of its own.
Broad Arrow
a device not unlike the broad-winged point of an arrow. Since about 1700 it has been stamped or stenciled on the public goods, especially military stores, of Great Britain . It is a felony to remove the mark from government stores, and an offense against the law to be found in possession of property marked or branded with the broad arrow. It may be remembered that during the late war between Japan and Russia, Great Britain denied the right of Russia to search ships to detain military supplies marked with the broad arrow, or to question their destination. The corresponding brand in this country is U. S. A.
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Broad Bill
a species of wild duck, anas clypeata: the shoveler; also the spoon bill, platalea leucorodia. mountain
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Broad Mountain
a ridge of Pennsylvania, in Carbon and Schuylkill counties, about 50 miles long.
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Broad River
a river of North Carolina, rising in the Blue Ridge Mountains, and making a junction with the Saluda at Columbia to form the Congaree; about 200 miles long.
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Broad Top Mountain
a mountain in Bedford and Huntington counties, Pennsylvania; extensively mined for anthracite coal. Height about 2,500 feet.
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Broadcloth
a fine quality of smooth, lustrous woolen cloth. It is plain woven, fulled, slightly napped, and sheared close. The best broadcloth is that intended for men's wear. Men's broadcloth is black. The wool is dyed usually in the raw state, or fiber. After weaving, the cloth is fulled until the fiber-ends of warp and weft are felted. This makes raveling impossible and hemming unnecessary. In finishing, the broadcloth is wetted, steamed, calendered, and hot-pressed until it is smooth and glossy. Broadcloth designed for women's wear is made of high grade wool which, as in all broadcloth, is carded and not combed. After weaving, the cloth is fulled carefully. It is then napped, steamed, and plunged into cold water, dried, sheared, and brushed. This process of napping, steaming. etc, is repeated from three to six times, the object being to produce an even, nappy, lustrous surface. The alternate steaming and cold water plunge are said to "fasten the bloom," or preserve the luster. After finishing in this way, the cloth is dyed, sheared a second time, hot-pressed, rolled and put up for market. The finest grades of broadcloth are light in weight, pliable, smooth, and lustrous. The threads of the weave are invisible.
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Broads
THE NORFOLK, a series of English inland lakes, usually said to be formed by the widening or broadening out of the rivers. The broads par excellence are those up the Bure or North river (which empties itself into and its tributhe sea at Yarmouth), and taries, the Ant and the Thurne. On the Bure leaving the comparatively hilly land N. of Wroxham, it enters a flat, marshy country very little above highwater mark, and right and left of it are the well known broads of Wroxham, Salhouse, Hoveton, Horning and Ranworth. The first (Wroxham) is the largest and deepest, there being sailing water for large boats all over it. Up the Ant there is the fine broad at Barton and another at Sutton; but the latter is fast closing up. Up the Thurne there is a very large broad at Hickling, and two others at Martham and Horsey, and these are all of note in the E. part of the county, on which it is possible to sail; for the three fine broads at Ormesby, Rollesby and Filby, though connected and forming a chain, have no practicable outlet to the river. The Yale, or Norwich, river has no broads on which sailing is possible. Near Lowestoft, on the Waveney, is Oulton Broad. The broads have grown greatly in favor with holiday makers in recent years.
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Brobdingnag
or Brobdignag, a country which Gulliver visits in Swift's Gulliver's Travels . Brobdignag was famous for the enormous size of its inhabitants and of all objects in it. See Gulliver'S Travels ; Lilliput
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Broca
PAUL (brō-kä), a French anthropologist, born in Gironde, Jan. 28, 1824; studied medicine and became Professor of Pathology at Paris, and famous as a surgeon; was founder of the Anthropological Society of Paris; founder of the Anthropological Institute or School, and founder and editor of the "Anthropological Review"; wrote several monographs on strangulation and hernia, aneurisms, anesthesia, abscesses, hybrids, and various anthropological subjects; was leader of the Evolutionist School in France, and became a life Senator. He died in Paris, July 9, 1880.
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Broccoli
late variety of in the flower and leaves. The part used is the succulent flower stalks.
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Broceliande
A magic forest in Brittany, which figures in the Arthurian legend. It was in this place that Merlin was enchanted by Nimue or Viviana, Lady of the Lake, and imprisoned beneath a huge stone. The name Broceliande is often employed as symbolic of the dim unreality of legendary scenery.
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Broche
bro-sha. See Cashmere Shawl
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Brock
SIR ISAAC, a British military commander, born in Guernsey, Oct. 6, 1769; suppressed a threatened mutiny in Canada in 1802; made Lieutenant-Governor of upper Canada in 1810; took Detroit from the Americans under General Hull in 1812; and was killed at the battle of Queenstown. Oct. 13, 1812. A monument to his memory stands on the W. bank of the Niagara river.
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Brockhaus
FRIEDRICH AR- NOLD (brok'-hous), a German publisher, born in Dortmund, May 4, 1772. In 1811 he settled at Altenberg, where the first edition of the "Conversations- Lexikon" was completed, 1810-1811. The business rapidly extended, and he removed to Leipsic in 1817. There are now chief branches in Berlin and Vi- He died Aug. 20, 1823. enna.
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Brockton
a city in Plymouth co., cauliflower, hardier and with more color Mass.; on the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad; 20 miles S. of Boston. It is one of the largest boot and shoe manufacturing places in the country, and beside these articles has extensive manufactories of rubber goods, shoe machinery and supplies, tools and bicycles. It contains the villages of Campello, Montello, Marshall's Corner, Brockton Heights, Clifton Heights, and Salisbury Square; was settled in 1700; was incorporated as a town in 1821, and chartered as a city in 1881. There are 2 National and 2 savings banks, a public library and excellent public schools. Pop. (1910) 56,878; (1920) 66,254.
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