Extrados
the external outline or curve of an arch.
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Each of these 11 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.
Extravaganza
in music, the drama, etc., a species of composition designed to produce effect by its wild irregularity and incoherence; differing from a burlesque in being an original composition and not a mere travesty.
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Extravasation
an escape of some fluid, as blood or urine, from the vessel containing it. Blood extravasation, in contusions and other accidents, is when blood-vessels are ruptured by the injury, and the blood finds its way into the neighboring tissues. In some accidents to the urethra and bladder extravasation of urine is a very serious occurrence.
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Extreme Unction
since the 12th century, one of the seven sacraments of the Catholic Church. It is performed in cases of mortal disease by anointing in the form of a cross, the eyes, ears, nose, mouth.
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Exumas
a group of islands of the British West Indies, forming a part of the Bahamas. The chief islands are Great Exuma, Little Exuma, and the Exuma Keys, with a total area of 150 square miles. Little Exuma has an excellent harbor. The inhabitants are employed chiefly in agriculture, and the making of salt. Pop. about 4,000.
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Eye Strain
the condition occasioned as a result of using the eyes where the light is bad or the conditions condition unfavorable. The adverse is often produced as a result of imperfect balance of the ocular muscles, and the results are sometimes serious. There is always a waste of nerve force and there is often headache; but where the condition is prolonged, convulsions, chorea, hysteria, and dementia may be among the consequences. The malady may be remedied by the use of proper glasses, and on the other hand it may be aggravated by the use of improper glasses. Where the painful condition is the result of constitutional defects, a normal condition may be brought about by surgical operation.
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Eye-bar
A common chisel or pointed bar with an eye forged at the opposite end--a useful implement in a foundry. Eye-bolt is an ordinary bolt with a round or oval eye at one end to receive a hook, rope, or chain. Bolts of this class may be put to an infinite variety of uses in the foundry, if general arrangements for lifting cores, flasks, etc., are made favorable to their adoption. A welded ring in the eye changes it into a ring-bolt.
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Eye-biters
In the time of Queen Elizabeth there came among the cattle of Ireland a disease whereby they grew blind. The witches to whose malevolence this evil was attributed were called eye-biters, and many of them were executed. F
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Eye-piece
A circular disk of iron containing a central sheet of mica, usually placed opposite to each tuyere, on the wind-box of the cupola; its object being to permit a view of the inside through the transparent mica. It works on a pivot, so that if necessary it may be moved aside and access had to the inside of the cupola if it is desired to remove any accumulated slag from the tuyere. See CUPOLA; SLAG; TUYERE; WIND-BOX.
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Eylau
a town of 3,600 inhabitants, 23 miles S. of Königsberg by rail. Here Napoleon encountered the allies-Russians and Prussians-under Bennigsen, Feb. 8, 1807. Darkness came on while the contest was still undecided; but as Napoleon had a considerable force of fresh troops close at hand, the allies retired during the night on Königsberg. Their loss is estimated at about 20,000; that of the French is set down at 10,000, but must have been considerably greater. The place is called Preussisch-Eylau, to distinguish it from Deutsch-Eylau, a town of about 5,000 inhabitants, 89 miles N. E. of Bromberg.
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Eyre
EDWARD JOHN (ar), an colonial gover- Australian explorer and nor; born in August, 1815. He emigrated to Australia at the age of 17. In 1840 he failed in an attempt to explore the region between South and Western Australia, though he discovered Lake Torrens. He accomplished the task in 1841. In 1846 he became lieutenant-governor of New Zealand, and in 1854 of St. Vincent in the West Indies. In 1864 he was appointed governor of Jamaica, disturbances broke where in 1865 negro out. The outbreak was suppressed with rigid severity. A commission sent to inquire, found that Eyre had acted unjustly in one case and he was recalled. On his return he was prosecuted by a committee of whom John Stuart Mill was the most prominent; Thomas Carlyle, Charles
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