Claims
COURT OF, a judicial tribunal created by an act of Congress or by legislation of the State to decide or against the States who authorize them. as the
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Clairvoyance
defined power of perceiving without the use of the organ of vision or under conditions in which the organ of vision with its natural powers alone would be useless. It comprises the sight of things past, present, or future. Various methods of Clairvoyance are recounted: by direct vision of things at a distance (opaque substances being no hindrance); by looking into a black surface; by looking into water, into a crystal, etc.; or by laying the object to be described on the forehead or chest of the clairvoyant; but clairvoyants now usually represent the cerebral region as the seat of illumination. From remote antiquity the possession of such powers by favored individuals has been believed. As instances of clairvoyants in later times may be mentioned Jacob Böhme (1575-1624) and Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772), the Swedish scientist and founder of the religious body called "The Church of the New Jerusalem." The phenomena of Clairvoyance have been carefully observed. The clairvoyant state seems to be intimately connected with the mesmeric, the somnambulistic, and the so-
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Clamp
A device for drawing together and securely holding two or more objects, such as two parts of a flask, core-box, etc. Besides the ordinary ones of cast and wrought iron which may be seen at all foundries, there are a considerable number of patented devices, some of which have very ingenious modes of adjustment. The Diamond Adjustable, with automatic lock, Hawley's Sliding Clamp with excentric head, are among the many truly good inventions which are supplied by the foundry agents. Called a "cramp" sometimes. Clay is a term of uncertain application to all kinds of earth or soil which, when moistened, become plastic and tenacious. Common clays are not easily distinguishable as mineral species; but it is apparent that nearly all have their origin in the decomposition of other minerals, chiefly consisting of alumina in combination with silica and water. See FIRE-CLAY.
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Clamps
Movable pieces of brass, lead, leather or cork attached to the jaws of a vise while holding objects that would be injured by the vise jaws. CLEANSING, PICKLING AND POLISHING.
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Clan Morna
In Irish romance one of the divisions of the Fianna, whose treasure bag containing magic weapons and precious jewels of the Danaan age was kept by Fia of that clan.
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Clapham
a S. W. suburb of London, lying a mile S. of the Thames. claims against the general government Clapham Common is still an open common of 200 acres. Clapham Junction, in Battersea parish, is one of the busiest railway junctions in the world.
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Clare College
a college of the University of Cambridge, founded in 1326 by Elizabeth, sister of the Earl of Clare. It has much-admired buildings in the Renaissance style.
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Claremont
a town in Sullivan co., N. H.; on the Sugar river, and the Boston & Maine railroad; 48 miles N. W. of Concord. Sugar river, with a fall of 150 feet in a mile, supplies power for numerous local cotton and woolen mills, paper and shoe factories, and machine shops. The town is the farming trade center of the surrounding region and has several churches, weekly newspapers, a high school, free library, public schools, two National banks, etc. Pop. (1910) 7,529; (1920) 9,524.
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Clarendon Press
the printing office of Oxford University. As early as 1586 Oxford was authorized to publish, a favor not lightly bestowed when authorities were as much afraid of a printing press as they now are of contagion. The Earl of Clarendon gave Oxford the manuscript of his History of the Rebellion. The sales were sufficient to defray in part the cost of a new office building, called in his honor the Clarendon. The press became famous for the printing of Bibles and prayer books, as well as for miscellaneous publications. It is now in enlarged quarters and is still one of the great publishing concerns of England. It has a royal monopoly of the right to print the King James Bible, the common version, in Great Britain . Any office may print Bibles, but no other office may print an official Bible. See Oxford
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Claret
a name originally given to wines of a light-red color, but now applied to the red wines imported from France, chiefly from Bordeaux. These wines vary in composition according to the locality, season, and age, but the produce of each vineyard usually retains its own peculiar characteristics. The most esteemed are those produced at the vineyards of Lafitte, Latour, Château Margaux, and others. Many of the clarets formerly sold in the United States were nothing more than the vin ordinaire used by the French peasants and working classes, but the development of the California grape industry made it possible to obtain as good domestic claret here as anywhere.
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Claretie
JULES (klär-tē'), a French novelist and dramatist; born in Limoges, Dec. 3, 1840. He wrote a long series of very successful novels, the most noteworthy of them being "Madeleine Bertin" (1868); "The Million" (1882); "Monsieur the Minister" (1882); "Noris, Manners of the Time" (1883); "The American Woman" (1892); etc. He wrote also some striking chapters of contemporary history, as "The Revolution of 1870-1871"; "Paris Besieged"; "Five Years After: Alsace and Lorraine Since Northampton in favor of the Church, Annexation." His dramatic compositions relate mostly to the time of the great Revolution. He became administrator of the Comédie Française in 1885, and was chosen member of the Academy in 1888. He died in 1913.
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Clarinet
or CLARIONET, a musical instrument akin to the clarion. It was modified from the ancient shawm, its first maker being John Christopher Denner, of Leipsic, who produced it after 1690. It has since been much improved. It consists essentially of a mouth-piece furnished with a single beating reed, a cylindrical tube ending in a bell, and provided with 18 openings in the side, half of which are closed by the fingers, and half by the keys.
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Clarissa Harlowe
a novel by Samuel Richardson, published in 1748. It is in seven volumes, and the progress of events is narrated in letters written by the principal characters to each other and to friends. The book is named for its heroine. It is considered Richardson's masterpiece. See Richardson ; Novel
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