These 18 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Capulet, Capulets and Montagues, Caqueux or Cacoux.
kap'u-let, the father of Juliet in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet . The name is the English spelling of Cappelletti, a noble family of northern Italy, according to the tradition of Verona. Shakespeare's Capulet, a self-willed, violent old man, is the head of the family and is at variance with the house of Montague, another noble Veronese family. See Romeo And Juliet
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the English spelling of the names of the Cappelletti and Montecchi, two noble families of northern Italy, according to tradition of Verona, chiefly memorable from their connection with the legend on which Shakespeare has founded his tragedy of "Romeo and Juliet."
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Formerly a caste of rope-makers dwelling in Brittany, who in some of the cantons of that country were treated as pariahs, perhaps because the ropes they manufactured were to the people the symbols of slavery and death by hanging. Be that as it may, they were interdicted from entering the churches, and were regarded as sorcerers. They did not hesitate to profit by this evil reputation, but dealt in talismans which were supposed to render their wearers invulnerable, and also acted as diviners. They were further credited with the ability to raise and sell winds and tempests like the sorcerers of Finland It is said that they were originally of Jewish origin, separated like lepers from other folk. Francois II, Duke of Brittany, enacted that they should Carver, Jonathan, Narrative of (See Divination .) Carver wear a mark composed of red cloth on a part of their dress where it could be readily seen. (See Cambry, Voyage dans le Finistére, t.3, p. 146).
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a family of beetles, usually large, large, ado adorned with brilliant metallic colors, and either wingless or having wings not adapted for flying. The bombardier beetle belongs to this family. CARABINE. See CARBINE.
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a state of Venezuela, between the Caribbean Sea and the state of Zamora; area, 2,974 square miles; pop. about 200,000, mostly inhabiting the fer- CARACAL tile depression of Lake Valencia, where large crops of coffee, sugar, and excellent cacao are grown. Capital, Valencia; chief port, Puerto Cabello.
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a species of lynx, the Felis caracal of Linnæus, of a reddishbrown color, with black ears, tipped with long, black hair. It is a native of Africa, India, Persia, and Turkey.
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the name given to the birds of the sub-family Polyborinæ, which is an aberrant one belonging to the Falconidæ. They Th are found in South America, and feed on carrion.
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the brown mass which cane-sugar becomes at 220° C., used in cookery as a coloring and flavoring ingredient, in giving a brown color to spirits, etc. The name of a certain preparation of candy.
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Important: Safety Warning This page describes trade processes that use dangerously toxic materials such as cyanide solutions, mercury amalgams, or strong acids. These processes require training, equipment, and precautions far beyond what the text describes. This information has been left in for historical purposes but should not be acted upon. The plating baths of a large establishment are made up to have the same alloy in them as is intended to be used in the anode, that is, 18k, 16k, 14k, etc., by adding cyanide of copper and cyanide of silver, or chloride of silver, to the gold bath above described. Or it may be made by battery, as described above, and any article intended to receive a certain quality of plate is put into its appropriate bath, weighed from time to time, and when it has received the allotted number of pennyweights, is given to the finishers.
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CARAVANor SERAI, a large public building, or inn, for the reception and lodgment of caravans in the desert. Though serving instead of inns, there is this essential difference between them, that the traveler finds nothing in the caravansary for the use either of himself or his cattle, but must carry all his provisions and necessaries with him. Caravansaries are also numerous in cities, where they serve not only as inns, but as shops, warehouses, and even exchanges.
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the name of different kinds of vessels, particularly a small ship used by the Spaniards and Portuguese in the 15th and 16th centuries for long voyages. It was narrow at the poop, wide at the bow, and carried a CARAVEL double tower at its stern and a single one at its bows. It had four masts and a bowsprit, and the principal sails were lateen sails. It was in command of three such caravels that Columbus crossed the Atlantic and discovered America.
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a compound formed by the union of carbon with an element, as iron or hydrogen.
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a fire-arm used by cavalry and artillery, shorter in the barrel than the ordinary musket or rifle. It was used by light cavalry as early as the 16th century.
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or CARABINEERS, formerly light horsemen, used chicfly to watch and harass the enemy, defend narrow passes, and act as skirmishers. The corresponding modern terms are hussars and lancers.
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any one of a large group of compounds, containing six carbon atoms or some multiple of six, and hydrogen and oxygen in the proportion in which nich they form water: that is, twice as many hydrogen as oxygen atoms.
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or BISUL- PHIDE, a colorless liquid produced by burning carbon in an atmosphere of sulphur, or by distilling certain of the metallic sulphides with charcoal; sp. gr. 1.268. It is of great use in a large variety of manufacturing processes, and as a solvent.
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kar-bo-na'ri, a secret revolutionary society in Italy. It was formed in the days of Napoleon to drive out the French. It was prolonged to expel the Austrians and to unite Italy. The name signifies charcoal burners. Their places of meeting were called huts; Italy, the forest; and their enemies, the wolves. They were known to each other as good cousins. They had no central organization. Their number, therefore, is not known, but is estimated at half a million in 1820-1. They imitated many observances of the Masons. The order was succeeded by Young Italy, founded by Mazzini.
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a city in Lackawanna co., Pa., on the Lackawanna river, and the Erie, Erie, the New York, Ontario and Western, and the Delaware and Hudson railroads: 16 miles N. E. of Scranton. It is in the center of an extensive coalmining district; and contains many machine shops, car shops, foundries, etc. Carbondale has a National bank, several churches, a Roman Catholic academy, several newspapers, etc. Pop. (1910) 17,040; (1920) 18,640.
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