These 14 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Carboniferous, Carboniferous Age, Carboniferous System.
a term applied to the extensive and thick series of strata with which seams of palæozoic coal are more or less immediately associated. It is applied as well to that great system of formations which yield our main supply of coal, or to some divisions of that system, such as the Carboniferous limestone and the Carboniferous slates. It is also applied to the fossils found in any stratum belonging to the system.
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. See Coal
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the Carboniferous succeeds the old Red Sandstone or some other member of the Devonian system, and passes upward into the Permian series. Its constituent groups vary much in the thicknesses of their sandstones, clays, limestones, and coals in different parts of the world, according to their conditions of deposition in conterminous seas, estuaries, and lagoons. Carboniferous fossils comprise labyrinthodont and other amphibia; heterocercal fishes of many forms; numerous insects, myriapods, and arachnids; crustaceans of all orders except the highest decapods; mollusks of all the known orders; polyzoa; corals of the "rugose" kind; foraminifera; and some plants of the conifer and cycad groups, but far more of the fern, equisetum, and lycopod orders. The Carboniferous Limestone consists of corals, encrinites, shells, and foraminifera of a great sea, with muds, sands, and coal-beds on its margins. These Black Prince. Of several fine churches constitute the coal-measures of Russia, Styria, Italy, Corsica, the Boulonnais, etc., and the Lower coal-measures of Scotland. CARBORUNDUM. See ABRASIVES.
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To convert into carbon by combustion, or the action of fire, or any other means, as the carburization of malleable iron by the addition thereto of carbon, through solid or gaseous carbonaceous matters. See CEMENTATION; CRUCIBLE STEEL.
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a beautiful gem of a deep-red color with a mixture of scarlet, found in the East Indies. When held up to the sun it loses its deep tinge, and becomes exactly the color of a burning coal.
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Important: Safety Warning This page gives first-aid or emergency advice that predates modern medicine and can make an emergency worse. Do not follow it. In any medical emergency, call emergency services and follow current first-aid guidance. This information has been left in for historical purposes but should not be acted upon. in surgery, an inflammation of the true skin and tissue beneath it akin to that occurring in boils. It is more extensive than the latter, and instead of one has several cores. It is associated with a bad state of general health, from which condition its danger arises, for it may threaten life by exhaustion or blood poisoning. With regard to the local treatment, the principal thing to be done is to make a free incision into the tumor; as much of the contents as possible should then be pressed out, and a poultice applied. The patient's strength should be supported by nourishing and easily digested food, and tonics should be administered. CARBURETOR. See MOTOR VEHICLE.
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The ancients supposed this stone to give out a native light without reflection, and they ranked it fifth in order after diamonds, emeralds, opals, and pearls. It is among the gems ruled by the sun, and is both male and female-the former distinguished by the brightness which appears as if burning within it, while the latter throws it out. It takes no colour from any other gem applied to it, but imparts its own. The virtue of the carbuncle is to drive away poisonous air, repress luxury, and preserve the health of the body. It also reconciles differences among friends.
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The union of carbon with a base, or a combination of carbon with any of the simple substances. It is more commonly termed a carbide.
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a species of badger found in North America, Meles labradorica.
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a necklace or collar of jewels.
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in military language, an iron case, with several apertures, filled with combustible materials, which is discharged from a mortar, howitzer, or gun, and intended to set fire to buildings, ships, and wooden defenses.
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the Carcaso of Cæsar, the capital of the French department of Aude, on the Aude river and the Canal du Midi, 56 miles S. E. of Toulouse by rail. It is divided by the river into two parts, the old and the new town. The new town is well and regularly built; but the old town or cité, built on a height, is much more picturesque, with its ramparts and towers, some parts of them dating from the time of the Visigoths, and the rest, with the many towered castle, from the 11th or 13th century. In 1210 this old town suffered greatly at the hands of the fierce bigot Simon de Montfort and his crusaders, who here burned 400 of the Albigenses. In 1356 it effectually resisted the the finest is St. Nazaire. Cloth-making is the staple industry; and there are also manufactures of paper, leather, linen, soap, etc. Pop. about 30,000.
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an ancient city on the Upper Euphrates, N. E. of the modern Aleppo, was long the N. capital of the HITTITES (q. v.), and was a city of great size and importance.
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an instrument for combing, opening, and breaking wool, flax, etc., and freeing it from the coarser parts and from extraneous matter. It is made by inserting bent teeth of wire in a thick piece of oblong board to which a handle is attached. But wool and cotton are now generally carded in mills by teeth fixed on a wheel moved by machinery. The word is derived through the French carde, a teasel, from L. carduus, a thistle, teasels having been used for cards. mine pratensis, the Cuckoo-flower or Lady's-smock, is a common but pretty meadow-plant, with large pale lilac flow- A double 'variety is sometimes ers. found wild. C. hirsuta is a common weed everywhere, varying in size, according to soil, from 6 to 18 inches in height. The leaves and flowers of this species form an agreeable salad. This species produces young plants from the leaves, all that is necessary being to place them on a moist grassy or mossy surface. C. amara is also not infrequent.
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