These 17 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Defamation, Default, Defenders.
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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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 algebra speaking of equations, to express what is highest power, a term used in . Thus if the index of the of unknown that power quan or 4 ( x, y), be of the third the or equation is respecfourth degree.
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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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in universities, a mark of distinction conferred on students , members, or distinguished Congo growing, strangers, as a testimony of their narcotic proficiency in the arts or sciences, or as a mark of respect, the former known as ordinary , the latter as honorary degrees DEICIDE . The degrees are in the cerned in bachelor, master, and doctor, and are conferred in arts, science music., medicine, divinity,
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a gaping, an opening, yawning. The a the cells of anthers for the discharge their contents opening of capsules and clefts, by. This takes place either anther - lobes hinges are, or by pores. When lengthwise erect, the cleft takes , along the line of the constituting longitudinal dehis- At other times the slit takes connective in a to horizontal manner, from the and the side, as in Alchemilla is transverse in Lemna., where the dehis- When the dehistakes sutures place by the ventral and and bean, it, as in the legume of the res, is called sutural. When may of several united carpels, the , so separate through the disinto its that the fruit will be re- , original carpels, as rhodoconsequence colchicum of, etc. This dehiscence, lamellæ of the taking place through Loculicidal septum, is called septidehiscence is where the between, and the edges of the carpels is , or through they dehisce by the dorsal , as in the lily the back of the loculafruit opens and iris. Sometimes same time by the the dorsal suture, and ovaries valves or walls of separate from the septa, leavthem attached to This is called septifragal dehisand may be the center, as in daof the looked upon as a loculicidal.
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