Clyde
LORD. See CAMPBELL, SIR COLIN.
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These 15 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Clyde, Clymene, Clymer.
Clyde (River of Scotland which has)
a river of Scotland, which has its sources amid the hills that separate Lanarkshire from the counties of Peebles and Dumfries, passes by Lanark, Hamilton, Glasgow, Renfrew, Dumbarton, Greenock, etc., and forms finally an extensive estuary or firth before it enters the Irish Sea, at the southern extremity of the island of Bute. From its source to Glasgow, where navigation begins, its length is about 80 miles. Its principal tributaries are the Douglas Water, the Mouse, the Nethan, the Avon, the Calder, the North Calder, the Kelvin, the White and Black Cart, and the Leven. Near Lanark it has three celebrated falls the uppermost, Bonniton Linn, about 30 feet high; the next, Cora Linn, where the water takes three distinct leaps, each about as high; and the lowest, Stonebyres, also three distinct falls, altogether about 80 feet. The Clyde, by artificial deepening, has been made navigable for large vessels up to Glasgow, and is the most valuable river in Scotland for commerce.
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Clymene
the daughter of Oceanus, and mother of Atlas and Prometheus.
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Clymer
GEORGE, an American patriot; born in Philadelphia, in 1739. He entered mercantile life when a lad and acquired a competence. He was prominent in public affairs prior to the Revolution, and in 1775 became one of the first Continental treasurers . He was chosen in 1776 to succeed a member of the Continental Congress who had refused to sign the Declaration of Independence, to which he promptly affixed his signature, although not on the 4th of July. He was active in the patriot cause during the Revolution, and in 1787 was a member of the convention that framed the Constitution of the United States and a member of the First Congress of ville, Pa., Jan. 23, 1813.
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Clynes
JOHN ROBERT, a British Labor leader; born at Oldham, England, in 1869. He represented the Labor party in Parliament beginning with 1906. In 1918 he was appointed Food Controller. He was President of the National Union of General Workers and Chairman of the Executive Council.
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Clyster
an antiquated term for enema.
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Clytie
or Clytia, in Greek mythology, an ocean nymph. She became enamored of Helios, the sun god. Her affection was not returned and she pined away in consequence. For nine days she sat on the cold ground and mourned, but ever with her face turned toward the sun. At last the gods pitied her and allowed her to be transformed into a flower. Her feet grew downward into the ground and became roots; her body and arms became the plant, and her pretty face became a blossom, which turns always toward the sun. Thenceforth she was called the heliotrope, which means "sun-turning."
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Cnossus or Knossos
an ancient city of Crete and the probable capital of the semi-legendary ruler Minos, whose palace, including the famous Labyrinth of the Minotaur, has been uncovered by the British archæologist Sir Arthur Evans. A well-advanced civilization is exhibited by the ruins, dating back probably to 3500 B. C. COAL FACT-FINDING COMMIS- SION. (See UNITED STATES, 1922-23.)
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Coach
. See Carriage ; Car ; Stage ; Cab Roots of soy bean, showing nodules Soy bean
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Coadjutor
a Latin term, nearly synonymous in its original meaning with assistant. The term is especially applied to an assistant bishop appointed to act for and succeed one who is too old or infirm for duty.
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Coagulation
the act or process being coagulated, of or of changing from a liquid to a curd-like semi-solid state, produced without evaporation and without crystallization. It differs from congestion in not being attended by a fall of temperature in the substance coagulated. When blood is drawn and allowed to stand it emits a "halitus" or exhalation, which has a faint smell. In three or four minutes a film overspreads the liquid, commencing at the circumference and gradually y spreading to the center. Two or three minutes later the lower part of the blood, in contact with the vessel, becomes solidified, and then the whole mass, only about eight or nine minutes being needful for the whole process from first to last. In about 15 or 20 minutes a thin serum begins to exude from it, and goes on to do so for two or three days.
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Coahuila
a State of Mexico, separated from Texas by the Rio Grande, has an area of 63,786 square miles, partly mountainous, and forming in the W. a part of the wilderness of the Bolson de Mapimi. The climate is healthy, though extremes of heat and cold are usual. The State is rich in minerals, especially silver, and coal has been found. It has valuable pasturage, and in many parts a most fertile soil. The Mexican International railway, traversing the State from N. to S., has conthe United States. He died in Moins- tributed much in recent years to the development of its resources; several cot ton-factories and a large number of flour-mills are in operation. Pop. about 400,000; capital, Saltillo (pop. about 40,000).
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Coal Oil
a name sometimes given to PETROLEUM (q. v.).
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Coal Strike
1922. (See UNITED STATES, 1922-23.)
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Coal Tar
tar produced in the destructive distillation of bituminous coal. It is a thick, sticky, dark-colored substance, and is used in the manufacture of printers' ink, for asphalt pavements, coating ships, etc. The composition of coal tar varies according to the temperature at which the coal is distilled, the higher the temperature the larger being the yield of solid bodies. Coal tar when distilled first gives off gas, then water containing ammoniacal salts salts, then a brown light oil which, when purified, is called coal-naphtha; at higher temperatures a yellow, heavy, fœtid oil called dead-oil, or creosote oil, then naphthalene; afterward the black residue in the retort solidifies on cooling and forms pitch, which is used to form asphalt, and a black varnish to protect iron from rust. If the distillation is continued, the pitch yields a yellow substance like butter, containing anthracene, phenanthrene, fluorene; afterward, at red heat, a bright orange powder, consisting chiefly of pyrene C16H10 and chrysene C18H12; the residue forms a hard, porous coke. Coal tar colors are dyes prepared from aniline, naphthalene, phenol, and other compounds contained in coal tar. See DYE- ING. COAL TAR COLORS. See DYEING.
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