Each of these 14 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.
sen'ser, a cup in which incense is burned. The censer is usually suspended by chains and carried in the hand. It is swung to and fro to create a draft and to spread the odor of the incense. Censers of one sort or another prevailed among the Hebrews, the Greeks, and the Romans. They are now wafted before the altars of the Greek Church and of the Church of Rome, and are used, to some extent, by the Church of England.
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a public official whose permission must be obtained to issue a newspaper, book, or other printed matter. During the Middle Ages officials of the church, particularly the bishops, acted as censors of manuscripts. Even with the Reformation the practice was not at once abandoned in Protestant countries. The censorship was not abolished in England until 1693. At the present time a mild censorship is maintained in Germany. A very rigorous oversight is kept up in Russia. Otherwise freedom of the press prevails throughout Europe and in all civilized countries. Libel, treason, and other objectionable matters are, of course, forbidden by law. The term is derived from an old Roman office. The Roman censors were charged at first with the duties of our present assessors. By degrees they were empowered to direct people's customs and morals. They prescribed what ought to be worn and what ought not to be worn, and were even able to expel a senator from his seat for wrong-doing.
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Author of an extant treatise entitled De Die Natali, which treats of the generation of man, of his natal hour, of the influence of the stars and genii upon his career, and discusses the various methods employed for the division and calculation of time.
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or CENTIME (san-tēm), the name of a small coin in various countries, so called as being equal to a 100th part of some other coin. In the United States and in Canada the cent is the 100th part of a dollar. In France the centime is the 100th part of a franc. Similar coins are the centavo of Chili, and the centesimo of Italy, Peru, etc. Cents or centimes, and their equivalents, are written simply as decimals of the unit of value.
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a mythical creature, half man, half horse, said to have sprung from the union of Ixion and a Cloud; the most celebrated was Chiron. They inhabited Thessaly, and were also called Hippocentaurs. The myth probably arose from some herdsman on horseback, who, being seen by individuals unacquainted with the uses of the horse, was supposed to form, together with his steed, one integral body. It is also the name of a constellation in the Southern Hemisphere.
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sen'tors, in Greek mythology, rude, savage monsters, half man and half horse. They were reputed to be descendants of Ixion and a Cloud. It is quite possible that the myth may have been derived from a race of gigantic men inhabiting the mountains and forests of Thessaly. Their chief occupation, it is supposed, was that of hunting. Being horsemen, their raids and quarrels with neighboring tribes were conducted on horseback. This may have given rise to the myth current in Pindar's time of savage hairy beings, half horse and half man. In support of this theory, it may be said that the Aztecs of Mexico were much astonished by the appearance of Cortez's cavalry. Until they saw the men dismount, they thought that horse and rider constituted a two-headed animal. The Centaurs were admitted to social intercourse by the Greeks. At one time they were invited to a marriage, but, becoming intoxicated, they were rude to the bride, and a pitched battle followed. The conflict between the Centaurs and the Greeks is a favorite subject with sculptors and poets of antiquity. Chiron was the most noted of the Centaurs. He was instructed by Apollo and Diana in the mysteries of medicine and music and in the art of prophecy. The Centaurs are represented in art as having the body and legs of a horse. The neck and head of the horse are replaced by the body of a man from the waist upward. See Chiron
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That point of a body about which all its parts are balanced, or which, being supported, the whole body will remain at rest, though acted upon by gravity. Webster.
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That point in a body rotating around an axis, at which, if a given force were applied, it would produce the same angular velocity in a given time as it would if the whole mass of the body were collected at that point. Webster.
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That point which remains at rest while all the other parts of a body revolve around it.
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A punch having a sharp point, for marking the center of work swung in a lathe, so that it may readily be removed and replaced without the trouble of finding the center each time.
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See Sweep Seconds.
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The arbor, attached to the center wheel, which carries the minute hand.
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The wheel whose staff carries the minute hand.
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In centering quickly on the universal head, this tool is indispensible. It will also be found valuable for other work. It is not kept by dealers, and will have to be made by the watchmaker. The body of the indicator is made of sheet brass, and should be about five inches long by two inches in width at the larger end. The shank C, is made to fit in rest holder, and is either riveted or soldered to the body; R is steel or copper wire sharpened to a fine point, and balances on a pivot at 1; B is a clock hand pivoted to the body at 1; 2 and 2 are pivot joints only, and do not go through the body; fig. C will perhaps give a better idea of the end R. To center with this tool, unscrew your rest and remove it, then place the shaft C, fig. 57, in rest holder and adjust it till the needle point R touches the top of hole as shown in Fig. 2. The index hand will then note the variations as the head revolves. If too low, the hand will point above center and if high, vice versa.
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