Each of these 18 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.
or MEADOW BEAU- TY, a genus of an Asiatic plant of the chiefly in order Melastomaceæ, found New England. It is noted for the beauty of its flowers, which have bright purple petals, and thrives best on meadow land. It is said that there are but eight species of the order in the United States.
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a small rodent belonging to the family Muridæ, which is found in abundance in this country. Its fur shows various brownish or grayish tints above, while the lower surface and feet, up to the wrists and ankles, are snowwhite. The length of the head and body is about three inches. Its habits are nocturnal, and it feeds on corn, of which, with acorns and nuts, it lays up stores for winter use.
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The, a novel by James Fenimore Cooper, published in 1841. It belongs to the series called Leatherstocking Tales. It is the first of the series in point of time, although it was published last. See Cooper ; Leatherstocking
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the act of defaming or slandering; the false and malicious uttering of slanderous words with a view to damage the character, reputation, or business of another; slander, calumny, libel. Defamation of character is actionable either by indictment or by action; but to support an action it is necessary that the plaintiff should aver some particular damage to have happened to him.
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a failure to appear in any court on the day assigned; especially applied to a defendant when he fails or neglects to plead or put in his answer in the time limited. In such cases the plaintiff is entitled to sign judgment against him, which is called judgment by default, and the defendant is said to suffer judgment by default.
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a Catholic association in Ireland (1784-1798), the opponents of the Peep o' Day Boys.
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a city and county-seat of Defiance co., O.; on the Maumee river, the Wabash and the Baltimore and Ohio railroads, and the Miami and Erie canal; 50 miles S. of Toledo. It is a trade center and has woolen mills, flour mills, machine and carriage shops, 2 National banks, and daily and weekly newspapers. Pop. (1910) 7,327; (1920) 8,876.
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a coeducational (non-sect.) institution in Defiance, O.; founded in 1884; reported at the end of 1919: Professors and instructors, 25, students, 497; president A. G. Caris.
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that branch of the science of fortification, the object of which is to determine, when the intended work would be commanded by eminences within range, the directions or heights of the lines of rampart or parapet, so that the interior of the work may not be incommoded by a fire directed to it from such heights.
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LAWS OF. See ATOMIC THEORY.
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the process by which we determine the common qualities of the objects belonging to any given class, so as to distinguish effectively that class from other classes. Regard Regarding the class as a species, we give the proximate genus and the difference; genus here denoting the distinctive qualities belonging to all of the genus, while the difference marks out the part of the genus in question.
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the term applied to the rapid combustion of ignited charcoal when a nitrate (such as nitrate of potash) or a chlorate (such as chlorate of potash) is thrown thereon. As chlorates do not occur naturally, it follows that deflagration with a natural salt indicates a nitrate; and if the deflagration be accompanied by a violent flame, it is characteristic of nitrate of potash (or- ); and if by a dinary niter or saltpeter strong yellow flame, it is indicative of nitrate of soda (cubical niter).
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in navigation, the departure of a ship from her true course; in optics, a deviation of the rays of light toward the surface of an opaque body.
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a discharge from a mucous membrane, especially of the air-passages, as in catarrh.
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FRANZ (def-reg'er), a German genre painter of deserved popularity; born in Stronach, in 1835. The subjects s of almost all his pictures are drawn from the Tyrolese peasant life, his few religious pictures having been in the main unsuccessful.
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a biological term used to describe those not unfrequent cases where an entire organism falls below the structural level of its young stages, or where an organ in the same way loses its fullness of function, and becomes more or less atrophied, abortive, altitude of the same star is seen to and simplified. Thus many parasitic parasitic worms, crustaceans, etc., are emphatically simpler than their free - swimming larvæ, and the sensile adult Ascidian shows only traces of the vertebrate characters which are plain enough in the active young. Thus, too, a crustacean which starts with a well-developed eye, may exhibit the gradual loss of this on assuming a dark habitat. The term is best confined to cases where a level of structure exhibited during early life is more or less lost in the adult. Degeneration must be distinguished (a) from occasional abortion, (b) from reversion to an ancestral type, and (c) from the occurrence of rudimentary and undeveloped organs where a character possessed by ancestral types remains more or less undeveloped, or shows itself only in embryonic life. Degeneration may be due to the environment, or to cessation of function, or to some more subtle constitutional cause. The theory of the degeneration of man from a high state has been superseded by the belief in a development from low savagery.
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n-dorf), a town of lower Bavaria, on the Danube, which is here crossed by two bridges, 39 miles N. W. of Passau, with manufactures of paper, linen, woolens, stoneware, and matches. Its church of the Holy Sepulcher is often visited by more than 30,000 pilgrims annually. Pop. (1905) 7,211.
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in music, a step in the toneladder. It may consist of a semi-tone, a tone, or (in the minor tura. cence, scale) of an augmented tone. When the modification notes are on the same line or space they are in the same degree. The interval DEHRA of a second is one degree, the interval of a third two degrees, and so on, irrespective of the steps stan, at outermost being tones or semi-tones. Hence, also, notes are in the same degree when they are natural, flat, or bounded by the sharp, of the same note, as C and C sharp, E and E flat; and they are in different degrees when, though the same note on an to 8,000 S. W. instrument of fixed intonation, they 3,500 are called by different names, as F sharp N. W. 15 to 20 and G flat, C sharp and D flat. valley is
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