Each of these 13 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.
See OILS. Boiler-moulding is almost a distinct class of moulding, belonging to what is denominated hollow-ware work, although the larger description of boilers are sometimes moulded in loam after the manner of kettles. See HOLLOW-WARE MOULDING; KETTLES.
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A copper or brass pan, which is also known under the name of pickle pan. It is used for boiling steel pieces in alcohol to remove shellac, and for boiling out jewelry after soldering. For the latter purpose use sulphuric acid one part, and water fifteen to twenty parts. The pan, which is shown at Fig. 40, will also be found useful for tempering small steel articles by boiling them in oil.
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See EBULLITION. Borax is procured by heating boracic acid with carbonate of soda, the carbonic acid being expelled and the boracic acid taking its place. This salt has an alkaline taste and reaction, and possesses the property of dissolving many metallic oxides; hence its use as a flux in the welding of metals. It dissolves off the coating of oxide formed when they are heated, thus presenting a clean surface. See FLUX; SOLDERS.
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Brian de, bre-an de bwa-gil-ber', a preceptor of the order of Templars in Scott's Ivanhoe. He is a powerful, ambitious, passionate man, hard and cruel, the villain of the story. Scott draws a striking picture of Bois-Guilbert: A man past forty, thin, strong, tall, and muscular; an athletic figure, which long fatigue and constant exercise seemed to have left none of the softer part of the human form, having reduced the whole to brawn, bones, and sinews, which had sustained a thousand toils, and were ready to dare a thousand more.... His keen, piercing dark eyes, told in every glance a history of difficulties subdued and dangers dared, and seemed to challenge opposition to his wishes, for the pleasure of sweeping it from his road by a determined exertion of courage and of will. He is the unsuccessful suitor of Rebecca, the beautiful Jewess. Disguised as an outlaw he makes her his captive. When she is condemned to die as a sorceress he pleads with her to flee with him, but is repulsed. In the tournament at Ashby he enters the lists against Ivanhoe, Rebecca's champion, but falls dead at the beginning of the combat. "Unscathed by the lance of his enemy, he had died a victim to the violence of his own contending passions." See Ivanhoe
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a fortified city of North Brabant, Holland, Brabant in 1184, founded by Godfrey of at the point where the Dommel and Aa manufacunite to form the Diest; has tures of cloth, hats, cotton goods, etc., traf and a good trade in grain, its water fic being equal to that of a considerable maritime port. The cathedral is one of about the finest in the Netherlands. Pop. 35,214. The Duke of York was defeated here by the French in 1794.
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FORTUNÉ ABRAHAM DU (bwä-gō-bā'), a French novelist, born in Granville, Sept. 11, 1821. In 1844-1848 he was paymaster in the army at Algiers, and began to write in 1868, somewhat on the lines of Emile Gaboriau. His novels include "The Scoun- Cou" (1873); "The Mysteries poetry. In 1877 he published a separate drels" (Paris, 1873); "Chevalier Casseof Modern Paris" (1876); "The Demi-Monde Un- ); "The Old Age der the Terror" (1877 of M. Lecoq" (1878); and "The Cold , Hand" (1879). He died in February 1891.
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GASTON (bwä-syā), a French biographical and critical writer, born at Nîmes, 1823. He was a member of the Academy, and had won celebrity Life with "Cicero and His Friends," " of Madame de Sévigné," "Archæological nu- Walks in Rome and Naples," and merous contributions to magazines. He died in Paris, June 10, 1908.
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ARRIGO (bō-ē'tō), an Italian poet and musician, born at Padua, in 1842. His father was an Italian painter and his mother a Polish lady. His librettos, written for Verdi, Bottesini and others, and his own operas, "Mefistofele" GASTON BOISSIER and "Nerone," are of a high order of volume of verse.
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GEORGE HENRY, an American poet and dramatist, born in Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 6, 1823. He graduated from Princeton in 1842; studied law; and was United States Minister to Turkey in to Russia in 1875-1879. 1871-1875, and 1871-187 His plays include "Calaynos" (1848); "Anne Boleyn" (1850); "Francesca da "All the Rimini;" "The Betrothed;" and World's a Mask." Collected plays and Poems of poems (Boston, 1856). Also " and the War" (1864); "Königsmark other Poems" (1869); "The Book of the (1886). Dead" (1882); and "Sonnets” He died Jan. 2, 1890.
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a remarkable and dangerous defile in western Asia, traversing the province of Sarawan, in the N. E. corner of Baluchistan. The pass gradually ascends from the plain a length of 55 miles, rising in its progress at the rate of 90 feet every mile, till it reaches the summit, which is 5,793 feet above the level of the sea. It is in many places walled in by stupendous rocks, where a hold the few hundred resolute men might passage against an army. The pass was formerly, before its occupancy by the British in 1877, infested by bands of lawless Baluchees.
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ROLF, pseudonym of THOMAS ALEXANDER BROWNE, an Australian author, born in England in 1827. He was a son of Capt. Sylvester J. Browne, a founder of Melbourne, Australia. He was educated in Sidney College, and has written "Ups and Downs: a Story of Australian Life" (London, 1879); "Robbery Under Arms: Life and Adventures in the Bush" (1888); “A Squatter's Dream Story" (1890); and Modern Buccaneer" (1894); "The Last Chance" (1905); ; "A Tale of the Golden West" (1906). 906). He died in 1915.
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a brownish, yellowish, or reddish colored unctuous clay. It contains more or less oxide of iron, which is the coloring matter in it; there is besides about 24 per cent. of water. Dana ranks it as a variety of halloysite, but considers that some of the specimens belong to other varieties.
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a national dance of Spain and Spanish America, usually accompanied with the castanets, and the zither or guitar, and sometimes with the voice. The dance is intended to represent a love story.
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