These 17 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Cochin, Cochin, Cochineal Fig.
a small native state of India, on the S. S. W. or Malabar coast, connected with the presidency of Madras, intersected by numerous rapid streams. Chief products: Timber, rice. Area, 1,361 square miles; pop. about 1,000,000, partly belonging to the Jacobite and Nestorian Churches established here in early times. The capital is Ernakolam.
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a seaport of Hindustan, in the Malabar district of the Madras presidency; on a small island; a picmany quaint old turesque place place with buildings. Its harbor, though Dutch sometimes inaccessible during the S. W. monsoon, is the best on this coast. dia was one of the first places in India chin visited by Europeans. In 1502 Vasco da Gama established a factory, and soon after Albuquerque built a fort; he also died here in 1524. In 1663 the Dutch took the place, in 1795 the British. Pop. about 20,000.
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a name given to Opuntia cochinillifera and two other species of cacti, natives of Mexico and the West Indies, the plants on which the cochineal insect lives.
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an important part of the internal ear, so called from its shape, which resembles that of a its snail-shell.
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a genus of cruciferous plants, including the horse-radish and common scurvy-grass.
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the popular name of a lamellicorn beetle, Melolontha vulgaris, found in England. The larvæ are found in dung or in decaying vegetable matter or buried in the ground.
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a genus of grasses, closely allied to fescue. The common or rough cock's-foot grass (D. glomerata) is a native of both palæarctic and nearctic regions, and is very abundant in Great Britain. In the United States it is called orchard grass, and is extensively cultivated. To this genus belongs also the tussac grass.
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an amusement practiced in various countries, first perhaps among the Greeks and Romans. At Athens there were annual cock-fights, and among the Romans quails and partridges were also used for this purpose. It was formerly a popular sport with the British. In Cuba and the Philippines it enjoys great favor. Cockfighting is generally prohibited by local laws in the United States.
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a plume of cock's feathers with which the Croats in the service of the French in the 17th century adorned their caps. A bow of colored ribbon was adopted for the cockade in France, and during the French revolution the triaurin colored cockade-red, white, and bluebecame the National distinction. National cockades are now to be found over all Europe.
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The Land of, or Cockaigne, kok-an, a satirical poem, supposed to have been written by Michael of Kildare during the thirteenth century. It has been said that it is "probably the earliest specimen of modern English poetry which we possess." There is also an old French poem of the same title. The word Cockayne, although of uncertain origin, is probably from an old French word signifying abundance. Cockayne was an imaginary land of idleness and plenty. "The houses were built of cake and barley sugar; the streets paved with pastry; roast geese went slowly down the streets inviting the passers-by to eat them; buttered larks fell in profusion; and the rivers ran wine." It was doubtless intended to ridicule the stories of Avalon, the mythical island in the west. In the sixteenth century the word Lubberland was used with the same significance. The term Land of Cockaigne has been derisively applied to both London and Paris. See Avalon
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SIR ALEXANDER, an English jurist; born Dec. 24, 1802; studied at Cambridge; was called to the bar in 1829, and soon became distinguished as a pleader before Parliamentary committees. In 1847 he became member of Parliament for Southampton in the Liberal interest; became Solicitor- General and was knighted in 1850; was made Chief-Justice of the Common Pleas in 1856; and Lord Chief-Justice in 1859. He presided at the Tichborne and other famous trials. He represented Great Britain at the Geneva arbitration in the "Alabama" case. He died Nov. 20, 1880.
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a dog of the spaniel kind, allied to the Blenheim dog, used for raising woodcocks and snipes from their haunts in woods and marshes.
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a nickname for a native of London. The origin of the word is unknown. One suggestion is that cockney is related to coquina, a kitchen, in the sense of a hanger-on for broken victuals. Another equally wise suggestion connects the term with cock's egg--a small misshapen egg. A genuine cockney must be born within hearing of Bowbells,--that is within the city. The term is used rather in derision, as cockney conceit, cockney speech.
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or Cockney School, a name given to a coterie of writers, including Shelley, Keats, Leigh Hunt, and Hazlitt. The term was first applied to these writers by Lockhart in Blackwood's Magazine. It suggested effeminacy, and was applied in derision.
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in a ship of war, the name still given to the compartment in the lower part of the ship where the wounded are attended to during action.
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WILLIAM BOURKE, an American lawyer and public official, born in Sligo, Ireland, in 1854. He was educated in France and Ireland and at Georgetown College, from which he graduated in 1900. After his removal to the United States in 1871 he taught school in Westchester co., N. Y. He was admitted to the bar in 1876 and soon became prominent in New York politics. He was delegate to many conventions, where he became well known as an orator. He opposed the nomination of Grover Cleveland in 1884 and 1892. He was a member of the 52d and 53d Congresses. In 1896 he opposed the silver wing of the party and supported McKinley for president. He returned to the Democratic party, however, in 1900, supporting William J. Bryan. He was elected to the 58th Congress in 1904, but later resigned. He was re-elected to the 59th and 60th Congresses, declining re-election, but resumed law practice in New York. He was a conspicuous ous figure at the Democratic National Convention in 1920 and made the speech nominating James M. Cox for presidency . artic-
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the comb of a cock, being a sort of ensign or token which the fool was accustomed to wear. Also a name sometimes given to Celosia cristata. The flowers are astringent and are prescribed in Asia in cases of diarrhea, blennorrhea, excessive menstrual discharges, hæmatesis, and similar disorders.
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