Colza
a variety of cabbage. Oil is extracted from the seeds and sometimes burned in lamps.
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Single-source entries: C (120)
These 12 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Colza, Coma, Comanches.
Coma
a morbid state which, if considered a distinct disease, is a milder form of apoplexy, but which may be properly regarded as a symptom rather than an idiopathic affection. It is characterized by a morbid condition of the brain, producing loss of sensation and voluntary motion, so that the patient seems as if in a deep sleep. It constitutes the most pronounced state of torpor which can occur. The cerebral functions are suspended in coma, and the nervous and sanguiniferous systems deranged. There are two well-marked types of it, one in which the pulse is oppressed, irregular, and slow; and the other in which it is strong, with a hot skin and other marks of febrile inflammation. When coma is intense it passes into apoplexy. COMA BERENICES ("the Hair of northern constellation Berenice"), a whose origin is sometimes wrongly stated. In his introduction to "Ptolemy's Catalogue" Baily says that though it was a well-known constellation long before Ptolwe emy's time the latter did not introduce it into the Almagest as a distinct constellation, but called it Plokamos (Gr., "hair," or "curls"). It appears to have been restored as a distinct constellation by Tycho Brahe in his catalogue, published after his death, in 1602. It is made up of rather faint stars, none of them brighter than the fourth magnitude. The constellation is surrounded by Ursa Ma- Leo.
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Comanches
an aboriginal tribe of North American Indians, whose hunting grounds were the regions now known as Texas and northern Mexico. They were very numerous between 1700 and 1750, having a tribal organization under chiefs of their own selection. They hunted on horseback, and were estimated to number 400,000 when first encountered by the whites. They have dwindled to about 2,000 and now live on a reservation opened in 1901 in Oklahoma.
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Comayagua
a city of Honduras, Central America, situated in a fertile valley, 1,935 fect above the sea, on the Rio Humuya, 190 miles E. of Guatemala. Founded in 1540, it has a handsome cathedral and a college, and before 1880 was the capital of the republic. Pop. about 3,100.
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Comb
a well known instrument used in the care of the hair. A comb is a thin strip of any stiff, tough material, furnished with teeth. Several metal strips are set on a frame to make the curry comb used for animals. Toilet combs are straight. Curved combs of many shapes are used to hold a woman's hair in position. The combs of the ancients seem to have been made of wood, chiefly boxwood, and later of ivory. Modern combs are made in a variety of ways. Tortoise shell is heated until it is plastic, when the spaces between the teeth are punched out. Bone combs are first shaped. All the teeth are then cut at the same time by a number of circular saws running side on the same axis. Celluloid and metal combs are cast. Rubber combs are pressed into molds while soft and are afterwards hardened by vulcanization. In stamping out combs material is saved by having the teeth interlock. According to the latest statistics 34 American comb factories employ 1,399 people, and pay them $572,467 a year. The annual output is worth nearly $2,000,000. We also import many combs from abroad where they are made cheaply. See Hair; Barber
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Comb (Toothed implement used)
a toothed implement used in every age and by all peoples for dressing and keeping clean the hair. Combs are also used for fastening the hair when dressed, and as head ornaments. Combs are made of horn, tortoise shell, ivory, wood, bone, metal, india-rubber, celluloid, and composition. Saw-cutting is the only process available for bone, ivory, and wooden combs, and it is used for the finer kinds of horn combs also. Indiarubber combs, now so extensively used, are manufactured by pressing the caoutchouc to the required form in molds, and "vulcanizing" or combining it with sulphur afterward.
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Comb (Wax cavities in which bees)
the wax cavities in which bees lodge their honey. The comb of a bee is composed of hexagonal cells, of which there are two tiers, the cells in which are placed end to end, so that the three plates of wax, which serve as the bottom of the cell in the one tier, constitute also that of the corresponding one in the other.
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Combaconum
one of the oldest and most sacred cities of India, in the center of the fertile Kaveri delta, 193 miles S. W. of Madras, with Hindu temples, a government college, etc. Pop. about 64,000.
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Combined Hardening and Tempering
M. Caron, with a view to combining the two operations of hardening and tempering, suggested that the temperature of the water used for hardening, be heated to a predetermined degree. Thus the requisite temper may be given to gunlock springs by heating the water in which they are hardened to 55 deg. C., or 130 deg. F.
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Combing
. See Carding
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Combles
a town in the department of the Somme, France, 7 miles N. W. of Peronne, and 20 miles S. E. of Arras. The Germans took it during the second battle of the Somme in March, 1918, inflicting heavy losses on the British, mostly South Africans, under General Dawson, who was captured. Attempts at counter-attack were unavailing, till the arrival of American forces and the general retreat of the Germans. COMBRETACEÆ, in botany, Myrobalans, an order of exogens, alliance Myrtales. It consists of trees or shrubs with alternate or opposite entire dotless leaves, destitute of stipules. The flowers are on axillary or terminal spikes. The calyx is adherent, with a 4-5 lobed deciduous limb. The petals, where they exist, rise from the orifice of the calyx. The stamens are generally twice as many as the segments of the calyx; the ovary one-celled, 2-4 pendulous ovules, style 1, stigma simple. The order is divided into three tribes: terminaleæ, combreteæ, and gyrocarpeæ. The myrobalans are found within the tropics of Asia, Africa, and America.
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Combustion
the act of burning, the state of being burned. Spontaneous Combustion is Combustion occurring without any means taken on the part of man to produce it. A Combustion of the human body produced by occult internal causes is alleged to have occurred several times. Most chemists believe the Combustion of the human body in the way described an impossibility. COMÉDIE FRANÇAISE, the national subsidized theater of France, formed in 1680 by the fusion of the two bodies into which Molière's company of actors had split. It is at present managed by regulations made in 1812, modified by subsequent resolutions.
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