These 12 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Cloth, Clotilda, Cloudbursts.
a manufactured substance consisting of wool, hair, cotton, flax, and hemp, or other vegetable filaments. It is the friction caused by the unlocking of formed by weaving or interlacing the escapement. In fine astronomical threads, and is used for making garments or other coverings. The term Cloth, when used alone, is generally employed to distinguish woolen Cloth from fabrics made of any other textile material. See WEAVING.
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ST., the daughter of Chilperic, King of Burgundy; born in 475, and in 493 became wife of Clovis, King of the Franks. She was the chief means of securing the conversion of her husband to Christianity, and largely influenced his life. After his death she lived a life of austerity at Tours, where she died in 545. She was canonized a few years after. Her remains were buried in the church of St. Geneviève at Paris, and burnt at the Revolution to prevent their desecration; the ashes are still in the church of St. Leu.
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ST., a town of France, in the department of Seine-et-Oise, a few miles from and S. W. of Paris. The historical associations of this place are intimately connected with the royalty of France. Its palace, which is very beautiful, was originally the property of the Dukes of Orleans, and, for a long period, was a summer residence of the kings of France. Its fountains are extremely elegant, and its park extensive. Here, in 1799, Napoleon I. dismissed the Assembly of Five Hundred, and caused himself to be proclaimed first consul; and here, in 1830, Charles X. put his signature to the ordinances which cost him his throne.
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a name popularly applied to brief and extremely heavy downpours of rain. Their practical importance lies in the fact, brought out by recent investigations, that they are of fairly common occurrence in certain parts of the country and must therefore be taken into account in the building of sewers, reservoirs, dams, and flood-prevention works. The heaviest brief downpour of rain on record occurred at Porto Bello on the Isthmus of Panama in 1908, when 2.47 inches of rain or about 250 tons of water per acre fell in three minutes. COLOMBIAN TREATY. (See UNITED STATES: FOREIGN AFFAIRS.)
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the unopened flower bud of an aromatic tropical tree. The name is from the French clou, meaning a nail, suggested by the shape. The clove tree is an evergreen from ten to forty feet in height, native to the Molucca or Spice Islands . Its cultivation has spread to the nearer parts of southeastern Asia, to eastern Africa, to Brazil, and to the West Indies . Cloves formed an important article of caravan south of Good Hope was discovered, Portraffic. When the passage around the tugal got possession of the principal clove-producing islands and held them with inhuman efforts to monopolize a money-making traffic. The cloves of commerce are the dried flower buds. The calyx is about half an inch long with a four-cleft border. The round knob in the center of the calyx is the dried corolla. If allowed to ripen, the fruit resembles an olive. Chambers states that the annual clove production of Zanzibar on the east coast of Africa is 2,000,000 pounds. Cloves are a favorite seasoning in cookery. A bit of clove inserted in the hollow of a troublesome tooth will frequently relieve the toothache. Oil of cloves is obtained by heating cloves in water. It is a remedy for nausea. See Spice ; Magellan Clove. Flowering branch, flower bud
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There is an old belief, buttressed by countless tales of apparitions, that the Devil always appears with a cloven foot, as a sort of distinguishing mark. It has been suggested that the Evil One, having fallen lower than any man, is not permitted to take the perfect human form, but must have some sort of deformity, i.e., the cloven foot.
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first king of the Franks in Gaul, reigned as sole king from 558 to 561. CLOTAIRE II., a king of the same Merovingian dynasty, reigned over the Franks 30 years later.
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WILLIAM LAIRD, an English naval critic and miscellaneous writer; born in London, Feb. 1, 1856. He was educated at King's College, London; and from 1876 to 1895 was correspondent for various newspapers. He wrote much on naval development and on art and sociology. He died Aug. 14, 1905.
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The form of tooth shown in Fig. 223 and for lever escape wheels, having a part of the impulse angle on the tooth. See Lever Escapement.
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or CLUNI (klön'yē) (ancient Cluniacum), a town of France in the department of Saône-et-Loire, on the Grône, 46 miles N. of Lyons. There are seen the ruins of a celebrated abbey. The monks of the Order of Clugny were the first branch of the order of Benedictines, and took their name from the above town, where they were first established. The Benedictines having become very lax in their discipline, St. Odo, abbot of Clugny, in 927, not only insisted on a rigorous observance of the rules by the monks under him, but likewise introduced new ceremonies of a severer nature. These new rules soon came to be observed in the principal monasteries in France, Spain, Italy, Germany, and Britain; and by the 12th century the order numbered about 1,000 cloisters in different parts of Europe. The order was abolished in France in 1790. Pop. about 4,000.
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A mechanism for connecting two shafts with each other, or with wheels, in such a manner that they may be readily disengaged.
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the chief river of Scotland. It rises in Lanarkshire and Dumfries, and flows westward into the Irish Sea. The river is about eighty miles in length. In its upper course it makes three distinct leaps ere it leaves the hills. The mouth is a broad estuary or firth. The channel has been dredged to permit large stoamers to ascend as far as Glasgow. An outgoing steamer takes cargo at the wharves of Glasgow, but usually lies to at Greenock near the mouth of the river for passengers from the city to join it by rail. The Firth of Clyde is full of booms of timber from Norway. The lofty rock and castle of Dumbarton keep watch over a noble scene. Ships innumerable are passing up and down this busy stream. See Glasgow
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