British America
. See Canada ; Nova SCOTIA ; MANITOBA, etc.
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Single-source entries: B (144)
These 13 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as British America, British Gum, British Spiritual Telegraph.
British Gum
a substance of a soluble in cold brownish color, and very dry starch at water, formed by heating 600° F. a temperature of about
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British Spiritual Telegraph
Spiritualistic journal. (See Spiritualism .) Britten, Mrs. Emma Hardinge, afterwards Mrs. Hardinge Britten, was a distinguished " inspirational" speaker, a native of London, but whose first championship of spiritualism was carried out in America. In 1865 she came to Britain with the intention of retiring from active service, but was persuaded by the spiritualists there to continue her labours. Her eloquent extempore lectures, delivered presumedly under spirit control, dealt often with subjects chosen by the audience, and were of a lofty and erudite character. She was the author of a History of Modern American Spiritualism, and a careful, if biased resumé of spiritualism in all parts of the world, entitled Nineteenth Century Miracles.
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Brittania
This alloy as prepared by Koller consists of 85.72 parts of tin, 10.34 of antimony, 0.78 of copper and 2.91 of zinc.
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Brittany
the northwestern peninsula of France. When the Anglo-Saxons overran England, a large migration of Britons took refuge across the English Channel in the French province of Armorica. It was known afterward from the name of these settlers as Brittany. It formed one of the large dukedoms of France, and was at times almost independent. The inhabitants of entire sections of the country, especially along the west coast, still speak the Breton language. It is closely akin to the Welsh. The manners, dress, and folk lore of the people also indicate that they are British, not French. Of late education in the French language has been required in all schools. The Breton language and costumes will soon be of the past. See Normandy; Basques ; France ; Arthur ; King 2026 Editor's Note: The Breton language the entry records as living is now classed by UNESCO as severely endangered: speakers have fallen from over a million to well under 200,000, most of them elderly, after a century of French state policy that punished children for speaking it. A network of immersion schools founded in 1977 is fighting to reverse the decline . (Ed: BR 2026-06-06)
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Briza
a genus of grasses with panicles consisting of awnless spikelets much compressed laterally, and cordate deltoid in form.
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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. 2026 Editor's Note: The mark had a second, crueler use: stamped or woven all over convicts' clothing, the broad arrow made an escapee instantly recognizable — and became the visual cliché of the prisoner, the arrow-printed uniform of a thousand cartoons and pantomimes long after real prisons abandoned it. (Ed: BR 2026-06-13)
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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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