These 17 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Brooklime, Brookline, Brooks.
the English name of a veronica or speedwell, veronica beccabunga. The flowers are generally bright blue, but in one variety they are pink or flesh-colored. The plant is common in ditches and water-courses. It is sometimes used as a spring salad.
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a town in Norfolk co., Mass.; on the Charles river, and the Boston and Albany and the New England railroads; 3 miles W. of Boston, with which it is connected by by electric railroads. It contains the villages of Cottage Farm, Longwood, and Reservoir Station; has a granite town house, public library, and manufactories of electric motors, etc., and is chiefly a place of suburban residence, being one of the most beautiful and wealthy suburban towns in the country. Pop. (1910) 27,792; (1920) 37,748.
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PRESTON SMITH, an American legislator, born in Edgefield, S. C., Aug. 14, 1819. He served in the Mexican War; was elected to Congress in 1853, and on May 22, 1856, he assaulted Senator Charles Sumner in the Senate Chamber, beating him into insensibility with a cane. He afterward resigned, but was immediately returned to the House by his District. He died in Washington, D. C., Jan. 27, 1857.
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NOAH, an American journalist and author, born in Castine, Me., Oct. 30, 1830. He was connected with newspapers in Massachusetts, California, Washington, and New York. He wrote many popular books for boys, among which are: "The Fairport Nine" (1880); "Our Baseball Club" (1884); "How the Republic is Governed." He edited and enlarged Bryant and Gay's "History of the United States." He died in Pasadena, Cal., Aug. 16, 1903.
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PHILLIPS, an American clergyman of the Episcopal Church, born in Boston, Dec. 13, 1835. He was rector of Protestant Episcopal churches successively in Philadelphia and in Boston, and was made Bishop of Massachusetts in 1891. He was an impressive pulpit orator. He wrote "Letters of "Lectures on Preaching" Travel"; (1887); and "Essays and Addresses" (1894). He died in Boston, Jan. 23, 1893.
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the English name of orobanche, a genus of plants constituting the typical one of the order orobanchaceæ (broom rapes). All are parasitic on other plants. They grow upon furze, broom, a galium, on thymus, a centaurea, a picris, on clover, milfoil, on hemp roots, etc. Some broom rapes confine themselves to a single genus or even species of plants, while others range over a considerable variety. The greater broom rape, one of the the eleven which grows on leguminous plants, especially on furze, broom, and clover, is so destructive to the last named genus of plants in Flanders that it prevents many farmers from attempting their cultivation. The tall broom rape (orobanche elatior), though preferring centaurea scabiosa, also attacks clover, as does the lesser broom rape (orobanche minor).
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the fresh and dried tops of cytisus scoparius (common broom). There are two officinal preparations; the decoction (decoctum scoparii), consisting of a pint of distilled water to an ounce of the dried tops, and the juice (succus scoparii), made of three ounces of the fresh expressed juice to a pint of rectified spirits. They are valuable diuretics, especially in cardiac dropsies. Scoparine and sparteia are the two active principles; the action of sparteia is analogous to that of conia.
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Witches were wont to ride through the air on switches or broomsticks, on their nocturnal journey to the Sabbath. Does the broomstick magically take the place of a flying horse ?
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a dish sometimes used in Scotland, made by pouring boiling water, milk, or the liquor in which meat has been boiled, on oatmeal, and mixing the ingredients by immediate stirring. Butter may be added, and sweet milk when the brose is made with water. It is kail brose, water brose, or beef brose, according to the liquid used. Athole brose, a famous Highland cordial, is a compound of honey and whiskey.
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. See Connecticut
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An esoteric society which sprang up at Florence towards the end of the fifteenth century, which was composed of eminent architects, sculptors and painters; and continued in existence for over four hundred years. Their patron was St. Andrew, whose festival was commemorated annually by ceremonies allied to the old Mysteries .
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a name given to three isolated mountains near the coast of New South Wales, between Harrington Inlet to the S. and Port Macquarie to the N. They are valuable as landmarks. The name is also common to several groups of small islands.
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An association of Arab philosophers founded at Bosra in the tenth century. They had forms of initiation, and they wrote many works which were afterwards much studied by the Jews of Spain .
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named after Lord Brougham, a four-wheeled closed carriage with a single inside seat for two persons, or a similar carriage with two seats, each accommodating two persons. The seat for the driver is elevated.
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JOHN, an American actor and playwright, born in Dublin, , May 9, 1810; made his début as an actor in England in 1830. He came to the United States in 1842, and, with the exception of a short return trip to England his death. He was the author of over in 1860, remained here until 100 comedies, farces, and burlesques. Among his most successful plays were "Vanity Fair," "The Irish Emigrant," "The Game of Love," and "London Assurance," written in collaboration with Dion Boucicault. He was also author of sketches entitled "Basket of Chips" (1855) and "Bunsby Papers." He died in New York, June 7, 1880.
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RHODA, an English novelist, born in Segrwyd Hall, Denbighshire, Wales, Nov. 29, 1840. She was the daughter of a clergyman, and resided at Broughton Hall, Cheshire. Her novels are very popular, and include "Cometh Up as a Flower" (1867); "Not Wisely but Too Well" (1867); "Red as a Rose Is She" (1870); "Good-bye, Sweetheart" (1872); "Nancy" (1873); "Belinda" (1883); "Doctor Cupid" (1886); "Alas" (1890); "A Beginner" (1894); "Scylla and Charybdis" (1895); "Between Two "Be Stools" (1912), etc. She died in 1920. (brö'sa)
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ROBERT F., an American senator; born in New Iberia, La., Aug. 17, 1864. He studied at Georgetown University, Washington, D. C., and graduated from the law school of Tulane University of Louisiana, in 1889. He served for eighteen years as representative in Congress from the Fifty-fifth to the Sixty-third Congresses inclusive. He was elected to the Uni United States Senate in May, 1912, for the term beginning March 4, 1915. He died April 12, 1918. BROUSSONETIA (named after P. N. V. BROUSSONET, a naturalist who traveled in Barbary, and published a work on fishes in 1782), a genus of plants belonging to the order urticaceæ (nettleworts). B. papyrifera is the paper mulberry. It has 3-5 lobed leaves. There is another species of the genus, B. spatulata, or entire leaved broussonetia. BROWN. Brown is not one of the primary colors in a spectrum. It is composed of red and yellow, with black, the negation of color. It is also the name of a genus of colors, of which the typical species is ordinary brown, tinged with grayish or blackish. The other species chestnut are brown, deep brown, bright bro brown, rusty, cinnamon, red brown, rufous, glandaceous, liver colored, sooty, c and lurid.
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