Balance Protector
No matter how careful a person may be, accidents will happen, and the least accident to a compensation balance gives the workman considerable trouble. The Arrick patent balance protector, Fig. 16, is intended for guarding balances from contact with turning tools, polishers and the hand rest, while work is being done upon the pivots. The staff is passed through the hole in the protector, and held in a wire chuck, and the protector is secured to the arms of the balance by two screws. The Bullock protector, shown in Fig. 17, is designed to protect the balance and other wheels from heat while drawing the temper from staff or pinion for the purpose of pivoting.
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Balance Spring
See Hair Spring.
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Balasius
To describe this stone in fewer words than Leonardus has used would be impossible. It is " of a purple or rosy colour, and by some is called the placidus or pleasant. Some think it is the carbuncle diminished in its colour and virtue; just as the virtue of the female differs from that of the male. It is often found that the external part of one and the same stone appears a balasius, and the internal a carbuncle, from whence comes the saying that the balasius is the carbuncle's house. The virtue of the balasius is to overcome and repress vain thoughts and luxury; to reconcile quarrels among friends; and it befriends the human body with a good habit of health. Being bruised and drunk with water, it relieves infirmities in the eyes, and gives help in disorders of the liver; and what Banshee is still more surprising, if you touch the four corners of a house, garden or vineyard, with the balasius, it will preserve them from lightning, tempest, and worms."
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Balboa
VASCO NUÑEZ DE, & Spanish explorer, Caballeros, in 1475. He accompanied born at Xeres de los Rodrigo de Bastidas in his expedition to the New World, and first settled in Haiti (or, as it was then termed, Hispaniola). Though an adventurer in search of fortune, his great ambition seems to have been to discover another great ocean. He proceeded to the American continent, and there founded a colony. Accompanied by a small band of followers, he began to thread the almost impenetrable began forests of the Isthmus of Darien. At length, after a toilsome and dangerous y, Balboa and his companions journey, approached, on Sept. 25, 1513, the summit of the mountain range, when Balboa , leaving his followers and advancing to the W. declivity, was the to behold the vast unknown ocean, which he named the Pacific. Surrounded by his followers, he walked into it, carrying in his right hand a naked sword, and in his left the banner of Castile, and declared the sea of the South, and all the regions whose shores it bathed, to belong to the crown of Castile and Leon. During his absence, however, a new governor had been appointed to supersede Balboa in Haiti; where, on and dissensions springing up between his return, jealousy them, Balboa, accused of a design to rebel, was beheaded in 1517.
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Balch
EMILY GREENE, an American economist, born in Jamaica Plain, Mass., in 1867. She was graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1889, studied economics in Paris and Berlin, and afterward carried on settlement work in the Denison House in Boston in 1892-1893. She was assistant in economics at Wellesley College in 1896-1897, instructor from 1897 to 1903, associate professor from 1903 to 1913, and professor of political economy and social science from 1913. She was a member of many state commissions on industrial problems and immigration, a member of the City Planning Board of Boston from 1914, and a delegate to the International Congress of Women at The Hague and to several other international congresses. She wrote "Public Assistance of the Poor in France" (1893); "Women at The Hague" (1915); "Approaches to the Great Settlement" (1918); etc.
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Balcoin, Marie
a sorceress of the country of Labour, who attended the infernal Sabbath in the reign of Henry IV of France . In the indictment against her it was brought forward that she had eaten at the Sabbatic meeting the ear of a little child. For her numerous sorceries she was condemned to be burnt.
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Bald Mountain
the name of several eminences in the United States, of which the following are the principal: (1) In Colorado, height, 11,493 feet; (2) in California, height, 8,295 feet; (3) in Utah, height, 11,975 feet; (4) in Wyoming, in the Wind River Range, height, 10,760 feet; and, (5) in North Carolina, height, 5,550 feet.
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Balder
or BALDUR, a Scandinavian divinity, represented as the son of Odin and Frigga, beautiful, wise, amiable, and beloved by all the gods. His mother took an oath from every creature, and even from every inanimate object, that they would not harm Balder, but omitted the mistletoe. Balder was, therefore, deemed invulnerable, and the other gods in sport flung stones and shot arrows at him without harming him. But god, Loki, fashioned the evil god, Loki, fashioned an arrow from the mistletoe and got Balder's blind. brother Höder to shoot it, himself guiding his aim. Balder fell dead, pierced to the heart, to the deep grief of all the gods. He is believed to be a personification of the brightness and beneficence of the sun.
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Baldness
an absence of hair on the head. Congenital baldness (complete absence of hair at birth) is sometimes met with; but, in most cases, is only temporary, and gives place, in a few years, to a natural growth of hair. Occasionally, however, it persists through life. Senile baldness (calvities) is one of the most familiar signs of old age. It commences in a small area at the crown, where the natural hair is first replaced by down before the skin becomes smooth and shining. From this area the process extends in all directions. It is more common in men than women. Baldness in patches (alopecia areata) attacks chiefly children and young persons, frequently those of debilitated constitutions. The only change at first perceptible is that the hair falls out in one or more places, leaving smooth bare patches. Alopecia Alopecia areata has been attributed to the action of a parasite; but it is more probably due to some obscure nervous influence.
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