These 14 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Butterwort, Butterworth, Butting.
pinguicula vulgāris, order lentibulariaceæ, a plant growing in bogs or soft grounds in Europe, Canada, etc. The leaves are covered with soft, pellucid, glandular hairs, which secrete a glutinous liquor that catches small insects. The edges of the leaf roll over on the insect and retain it, and the insect thus retained serves as food for the plant. In the N. of Sweden the leaves are employed to curdle milk.
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HEZEKIAH, an American story writer, born in Warren, R. I., Dec. 22, 1839. In 1871 he became editor of the "Youth's Companion." Author of popular juvenile stories and travels, including "Zig-Zag Journeys" (1876-1880); "Songs of History: Poems and Ballads upon Important Episodes in American History" (1887), and "The Wampum Belt" (1896). He died Sept. 5, 1905.
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The touching of the points of the teeth of two wheels acting with one another. It is caused by the wheels being planted incorrectly, or by pinions or wheels of improper size. See Depthing Tool and Wheels and Pinions.
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in architecture, especially Gothic, projections on the outside of the walls of an edifice, extending from the bottom to the top, or nearly, and intended to give additional support to the walls and prevent them from spreading under the weight of the roof. Flying buttresses, of a somewhat arched form, often spring from the top of the ordinary buttresses, leaning inward so as to abut against and support a higher portion of the building, such as the wall of a clear story, thus receiving part of the pressure from the weight of the roof of the central pile.
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WALLACE, an American educator, born in Potsdam, N. Y., in 1853. He was educated at the Ogdensburg Academy and the Potsdam Normal School. He graduated from the Rochester Theological Seminary in 1883, and in the same year he was ordained to the Baptist ministry. He filled several pastorates until 1902, when he was appointed secretary of the General Educahe was elected tional Board. In 1907 president of the Board.
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HENRY ANSON, an American educator, born in Middle Smithfield, Penn., April 18, 1835. He was graduated at Princeton, in 1858, and entered the Methodist ministry in 1858. From 1880 to 1912 he was President of Drew Theological Seminary, and since 1912 President Emeritus. He wrote much on polemics, exegetics, and hermeneutics.
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an organic monad, fatty radical, having the formula (C₂H₂)'; also called quartyl, or tetryl, from its containing four carbon atoms. See AL-
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an acid obtained from butter; it also occurs in perspiration, cod liver oil, etc. Butyric acid is a colorless liquid, having a smell like that rancid butter; its taste is acrid and of biting, with a sweetish after taste.
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a substance obtained from butyric acid with the flavor of pineapples, used in flavoring confectionery, as an ingredient in perfumes, etc.
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SYDNEY CHARLES, VIS- COUNT, a British statesman; born in 1853. He received his education at Cambridge. From 1876 to 1882 he was a member of the London School Board, and of the Royal Commission on Education from 1886 to 1889. In 1892 he became Under-Secretary for the Colonies, which position he held for three years. He was member of Parliament from Peterborough in 1883. From 1905 to 1910, he was Postmaster-General, and made his administration notable by the introduction of penny postage to the United States. He was largely instrumental in passing the Insurance, Copyright, and Pilotage Acts (1911-1912). In 1914 he was made High Commissioner and Governor-General of South Africa. He has written a number of works on financial and economic subjects, among which are "Finance and Politics," "Handbook to Death Duties," and "The Fiscal Question."
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SIR THOMAS FOWELL, an English philanthropist, born April 1, 1786; educated at Trinity College, Dublin. In 1811 he joined the firm of Truman, Hanbury & Co., brewers, and took an active share in the business. The Spitalfields distress, in 1816, was the occasion of his turning his attention to philanthropic efforts, and, along with his sister-in-law, the celebrated Mrs. Fry, he made inquiries which directed public attention to the system of prison discipline. In 1818 he was elected to Parliament for Weymouth, and was long the L able coadjutor of Wilberforce in his efforts for the abolition of slavery. He was created a baronet in 1840, and died Feb. 19, 1845.
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a town in Derbyshire, England, 37 miles N. W. of Derby, and 25 S. S. E. of Manchester. Buxton has long been famous for its calcareous springs, the waters being taken for indigestion, gout, rheumatism, and nervous and cutaneous diseases. Near Buxton is the Diamond Hill, famous for its crystals; and Poole's Hole, a stalactite cavern 770 yards long. Mary, Queen of Scots, was at Buxton when in the custody of the Earl of Shrewsbury. Pop. about 15,000.
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Serjeant, a pompous barrister in Dickens' Pickwick Papers. He becomes counsel for the plaintiff in Mrs. Bardell's famous breach of promise suit against Mr. Pickwick. He bullies his witnesses at the trial and seems especially talented in drawing, from the simplest circumstances, inferences which appear to incriminate Mr. Pickwick.
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a bay indenting the S. E. coast of Massachusetts; partly formed by the Elizabeth Islands. Its shores afford many summer resorts. Upon the bay New Bedford is situated. BY-LAW, a private law; the local or subordinate law of a city, town, private corporation or other organization. The power to make by-laws is usually conferred by express terms of the charter creating the corporation; though, when not expressly granted, it is given by implication, and it is incidental to the very existence of a corporation. The Constitution of the United States and Acts of Congress made in conformity to it, the Constitution of the State in which a corporation is located, and all acts of the Legislature constitutionally made, together with the common law as there accepted, are of superior force to any bylaw; and such by-law, when contrary to either of them, is void, whether the charter authorizes the making of such bylaw, or not; because no legislature can grant power larger than it possesses.
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