Each of these 12 subjects appears in only one of the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. None is long enough to carry a page by itself, so they are gathered here by letter. Anything that grows moves out to a page of its own.
The name given by the ancients to an evil spirit. He changed his shape so frequently that no one could tell in what guise he most generally appeared to man. Each person was also supposed to have a good and bad genius, the evil being the cacodemon. The astrologers also called the twelfth house of the sun, which is regarded as evil, that of cacodemon.
Only in An Encyclopaedia of Occultism
A marvellous stone, said to possess occult properties, which was known to the ancients, and which was probably the cornelian. Any one wearing it was supposed to be assured of victory in battle.
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an old and extensive genus of Linnæus, in four sections: (1) The echinomelocacts; (2 and 3) cerei of two kinds; and (4) opuntiæ. It is now broken up into a number of genera. It is still popularly used as the designation of nearly whole of the Cactaceæ, to which order, moreover, it has given its name. Cacti are sometimes called melon thistles. Hedgehog cactus; a designation of the genus Echinocactus. Leaf cactus; the Epiphyllum. Melon thistle cactus; the Melocactus. Nipple cactus; the Mammillaria. The Hindus compare Europeans in the East to the species of cactus (opuntia dillenii), which they know best. The plant, though now seen all over India, undoubtedly came at first from a foreign and a distant country. It grows very extensively in the western and navigable southwestern part of the United States The and all over tropical America, usually Bul- on arid lands. Once rooted in a place, the it spreads so widely abroad that it is CACTI difficult to get it out again, and it is believed to impoverish the land of which it takes possession. It is of so abnormal a type that none but itself can be its parallel. An unpleasant feature about pa it is that, from whatever side you approach it, you are met in all directions by fixed bayonets.
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an insect resembling a moth. The caddice fly lays its eggs in water. The larva has the ability of spinning gummy silk. It glues together a case of pebbles, bits of wood, straw, grains of sand, fragments of shell, or anything of the sort inside of which it constructs a silk-lined nest in which to live. Some species leave this home in search of food. Others drag it about as the snail does its shell. One might see hundreds of these cases on the bottom of a brook without suspecting their nature. Some caddice worms, as the larvae are called, decorate their houses by gluing on shells, even of living snails. An astonishing proof of their ingenuity is the construction of funnel-shaped webs, fastened to stones in running water, apparently for the purpose of catching insects. When full grown the caddice worm retires into its silky nest, closes the door for a while, and emerges in due time a caddice fly. It then leaves the water at once, spreads its wings, and sports in the sunshine, a soft-bodied, hairy, moth-like creature. Caddice "worms" devour spawn and the young fry. See Insect
Only in Aiton's Encyclopedia
a health resort, beautifully situated among orange and citron groves, on the W. shore of Lake Como, Italy. Its famous Villa Carlotta contains works by the sculptors Canova and Thorwaldsen. CADENCE. See HARMONY.
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a younger or youngest son; a junior male member of a noble family. Also the name or title given to a young man in training for the rank of an of ficer in the army or navy, or in a military school. In Great Britain cadets are trained for the army by a course of military discipline, at the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, or the Royal Military College at Sandhurst, previous to obtaining a commission. A naval cadet is one who holds the first or lowest grade as a candidate for a commission in the navy. In the United States cadets are trained for military life at West Point, N. Y., and for naval life at Annapolis, Md.
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or KADI, in Arabic, a judge or jurist. Among the Turks cadi signifies an inferior judge, in distinction from the mollah, or superior judge. They belong to the higher priesthood, as the Turks derive their law from their prophet.
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a city of Michigan, the county-seat of Wexford co. It is on the Grand Rapids and Indiana, and the Ann Arbor railroads. The city is the center of an important lumbering region and has also manufactures of chemicals, furniture, and machinery. There is a hospital, a city hall, a court house, and a public library. Pop. (1910) 8,375; (1920) 9,750.
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(SAMUEL) PARKES, a Congregational clergyman; born in Wellington, England, Dec. 18, 1864. He was educated at Richmond College, London University. He came soon after to the United States, where he has since remained and has occupied prominent pulpits. From 1895 to 1900 he preached to the Central Congregational Church, Brooklyn. He was a forceful speaker and lectured widely, besides taking a prominent part in community efforts looking toward social betterment. He wrote "Charles Darwin and Other English Thinkers" (1911), and "Three Great Oxford Movements" (1915).
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A rod entwined at one end with two serpents. It was the attribute of Mercury, and was given to him by Apollo in exchange for the lyre.
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JOHN, an American soldier, born in Philadelphia, Jan. 10, 1742. At the outbreak of the Revolution he was placed in command of a battalion and soon became brigadiergeneral. He fought at Trenton, Brandywine, Germantown, and Monmouth. In 1777 he organized the militia of east ern Maryland. In 1778 he challenged and wounded Thomas Conway for plotting against Washington. His daughter became, in 1800, the wife of Lord Erskine. He died in Shrewsbury, Pa., Feb. 10, 1786.
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or CADSAND, a small port of Zeeland, in Holland, near the Belgian frontier. It was a great medieval port; and here in 1337 the English, under Sir Walter Manny and the Earl of Derby, defeated the Flemings in French pay. CÆCUM, the beginning of the great gut, commonly called the blind - gut, because it is perforated at one end only; it is the first of the three portions into dian, C. which the intestines are divided. Also a genus of mollusks, by some considered to be the type of the family cæcidiæ, but generally placed under the family turritellidæ. The species are recent or tertiary, commencing in the Eocene period.
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