Dirk-Hartog Island
on the W. coast of Australia, 45 miles long N. to S. and 10 miles broad.
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Single-source entries: D (58)
These 11 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Disc, Disciple, Disco.
Dirt-Beds
a name given to certain dark-colored loam-like beds, which occur interstratified with Oölitic limestones and sandstones of Portland, England. They contain not only Cycadeæ, but also stumps of trees in an erect position, with their roots extending beneath them. Stems of trees are also found prostrate. Dirt-beds occur also in parts of the Mississippi basin.
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Disc
an organ consisting of certain bodies or projections situated between the base of the stamens and that of the ovary, but constituting no part of either. The most common form is that of a fleshy ring, either entire or variously lobed, surrounding the base of the ovary, Sometimes as in lamium, orobanche, etc. it is a cup, as in pæonia.
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Disciple
literally, one who learns anything from another; and hence, the followers of any teacher, philosopher, or head of a sect. In this sense the word is as when we sometimes used in Scripture, read of the disciples of Moses, of John, of Christ. Generally, however, it is used with reference to the last of these-the followers of Jesus. Sometimes all who received the doctrines of Christ are called disciples. It is used as synonymous with apostle, and is applied to the Twelve.
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Disco
an island on the W. coast of Greenland, under the parallel of 70° N. It is mountainous, reaching a height of 3,000 feet; has a total length of about 90 miles; and contains much excellent coal. The harbor of Godhavn is on the S. coast.
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Discobolus
in classical antiquity, antiquity , a thrower of a discus, or quoit; a quoitplayer; specifically: the name given to the famous Greek statue of the quoitthrower, preserved among the Townley Marbles in the British Museum. In ichthyology a name given by Cuvier to his third family of soft-finned teleostean fishes, having the ventral fins under the pectoral. The name is derived from the ventral fins forming a disk on the under surface of the body, by which the fishes are enabled to catch hold on the points of rocks.
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Discord
in music, a combination of notes which produces a certain restless craving in the mind for some further combination upon which it can rest with satisfaction. Discords comprise such chords as contain notes which are next to cach other in alphabetical order, and such as have augmented or diminished intervals, with the exception in the latter case of the chord of the sixth and third on the second note of any key. The changed combination which must follow them, in order to relieve the sense of pain they produce, is called the resolution. In fine arts, a term applied to paintings when there is a disagreement of the parts or coloring.
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Discordia
Known to the Greeks as Eris . A malevolent deity, daughter of Nox, and sister to Nemesis , the Parcae, and Death. She was driven from heaven by Jupiter because she sowed dissensions among the gods. At the nuptials of Peleus and Thetis she threw an apple among the gods, inscribed with the words Detur pulchriori, which was the primary cause of the ruin of Troy, and of infinite misfortunes to the Greeks.
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Discount
a deduction made in the payment of a bill or settlement of an account for ready or prompt payment; a sum deducted at a certain rate per cent. from the credit price of any article in consideration of prompt payment. The term discount is applied both to the amount deducted and the rate per cent. at which the deduction is calculated or allowed. Discount in banking is a charge made at a certain rate per cent. for the interest of money advanced on a bill or other document due at some future time. This charge the discounter deducts from the amount of the bill, handing over the balance to the borrower; a deduction from the present value of a security, the payment ent of which is postponed. The rate of discount depends on, and is regulated by, the market value of money.
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Discus
DISC, or DISK, among the Greeks and Romans a quoit of stone or metal, convex on both its sides, sometimes perforated in the middle. The players aimed at no mark, but simply tried to throw the quoit to the greatest possible distance. It was sometimes furnished with a thong of leather to assist in the throwing. The throwing of the discus was a notable feature of the revival of the Olympian Games at Athens in 1896. In these games the discusthrowing event was won by Robert Garrett, of Princeton University, who far outclassed all the foreign competitors.
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Disease
GERM THEORY OF periods: development, expression, and a series of intervals either tending to improvement, or confirmed conditions of ill-health, according usually as the disease is of the acute or of the chronic form. The form of disease may be neurotic, dynamic, adynamic, constitutional , malignant, hereditary, cutaneous , etc. The usual tendency of disease, from the vis medicatrix naturæ, is toward recovery. as pleurisy, remains only a theory, scientific knowledge of the relation has been established in respect to an ever-enlarging group , including such diseases as erysipelas , gonorrhea, diphtheria, influenza, anthrax , actinomycosis, cholera , typhoid, tuberculosis, infantile spinal paralysis , tetanus, leprosy, malaria, pneumonia , syphilis, and relapsing fever. Culture, cover-glass preparation and animal inoculation are the methods employed in modern bacterial examination, coagulated blood serum, Litmus milk, glucose agar-agar, potato agar-agar, and glucose gelatin are employed as culture media. In the technique employed in cover-glass preparation the pathological material is obtained during life and streaked certain processes of heating to fix it, is placed under the microscope and examined. In animal inoculations the material is inserted or injected under the skin of a mouse or guinea pig, the progress of the malady is watched; and after death autopses of the organs are made. The presence of tuberculosis is ascertained by examination of the sputum by cover-glass preparation , and by parallel methods the bacillus of diphtheria, the plasmodium of malaria, and the germs of other diseases are indicated. over cover-glass, and after
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