These 12 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Febrifuge, Federal States, Federalist Party.
a medicine tending to cure, or alleviate fever. As fevers are cured by several classes of medicines, the list of febrifuges would be very numerous, embracing articles from the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms, and comprehending tonics, stimulants, emetics, diaphoretics, purgatives and diuretics.
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states united by a federation or treaty which, binding them sufficiently for mutual defense and the settlement of questions bearing on the welfare of the whole, whole, each state free within certain limits to yet leaves govern itself. Switzerland and the United States are examples of this political constitution. Such a union or confederation is sometimes known as a federacy. The term federation indicates centralization in government while confederation is used where state sovereignty is stronger.
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a political party of the United States . The Federalists became the leading party under the administration of George Washington. They elected John Adams, but were defeated by the election of Thomas Jefferson to the presidency. The party was in favor of a strong central government. The Federalists were very much injured by the famous Hartford Convention which opposed the War of 1812 and had the reputation of planning secession. During the following administration, that of James Monroe, the Federalists were lost sight of entirely. See Democratic Party
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the name given to those who during the Civil War in the United States fought to maintain the Union of the Federated States, in opposition to the Confederates.
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THE, a defective class of children for whom educational advantages are provided by special State institutions. Several State institutions are for the feeble-minded irrespective of age or sex; some are for women or for children only; and one, Washington, is for defective youth generally. There are also a number of private schools for this class of youth. FEEJEE ISLANDS. See FIJI IS-
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The process of supplying hot fluid metal to the interior of a casting, to compensate for the gradual shrinkage as it passes from a fluid to a solid state. The head, occupying an elevated position, imparts pressure; the feeding-rod, being kept hot, serves to maintain communication with the interior by preserving a passage through which the molten metal is forced by reason of the pressure exerted at the feeding-head above, where the supply is kept constant until the mass has solidified. This process is by some improperly termed churning. See FEEDING-HEAD; FEEDING-ROD; RISER; SHRINKAGE.
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In some localities this is called shrink-head and sinking-head. It is a continuation of the rising-head to some distance higher than the latter is usually made, and is generally formed of sand within an iron box. If the proportion of feeding-head be equal to the casting, the latter will be effectually fed with metal sufficient to make good the depreciation from shrinkage; but if the riser must necessarily be much smaller, proportionately, than the casting, it will congeal, or set, ahead of the latter with the result of unsoundness, if the feeding-rod is not resorted to. See FEEDING; FEEDING-ROD.
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A wrought-iron rod, from 1/4 to 3/4 inch diameter and of a suitable length, for use in keeping open the communication betwixt riser and casting. When it is necessary to feed castings, these rods should be kept clean and hot, occasionally changing the one in use for a clean one that has been previously heated. By this means the hole can be kept free until the casting has completed its shrinkage; otherwise the hole congeals prematurely, and the casting suffers in consequence. See FEEDING.
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the sensation or impression produced in the mind when a material body is touched by any part of the body; a physical sensation of any kind due to any one of the senses; as, a feeling of warmth, or of cold; also a mental sensation or emotion; mental state; sensitiveness. Classifying them by their functions, they may be divided into centrally initiated feelings called emotions, and peripherally initiated feelings called sensations. These last again are subdivided into epiperipheral sensations, being those which arise on the exterior surface of the body, and endoperipheral sensations, those which arise in its interior. The proximate components of mind are of two broadly contrasted kinds, feelings and the relations between them. Quantity of feeling is of two kinds, that which arises from intense excitation of a few nerves, and that which springs from slight excitation of many nerves. Feeling and sensibility, taken as moral properties, are awakened as much by the operations of the mind within itself as by external objects. Susceptibility designates that property of the body or the mind which consists in being ready to take an affection from external objects, hence we speak of a person's susceptibility to take cold, or his susceptibility to be affected with grief, joy, or any other passion.
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a solution used to determine the amount of glucose in a solution. It is prepared by dissolving in 200 cubic centimeters of distilled water, 34.64 grammes of pure crystallized cupric sulphate, previously powdered and pressed essed between blotting paper, and mixing it with 174 grammes of Rochelle salt dissolved in 400 cubic centimeters of a solution of pure caustic soda. The liquid must be kept in bottles protected from the light, and from absorption of CO₂ from the air.
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or FEMERN (fa'mern), an island Denmark in 1864 and now part of lying in the Baltic; taken from Schleswig-Holstein, Prussia. Area, 70 square miles; surface, level; soil, fertile, Cattle producing corn. are abundant. The inhabitants are mostly engaged in fishing and coastwise navigation.
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ABUL-FEIS IBN MUBÁRAK (fā-ā-sē), a celebrated Indo-Persian poet and scholar; born in Agra, India, in 1547. He surpassed all his contemporaries in philological, philosophical, historical, and medical knowledge, and about 1572 was crowned "king of poesy" in the court of the Emperor Akbar. Of his poems the most noteworthy are his lyrics. Their exalted pantheism brought on him the enmity of the orthodox Muslim clergy. He wrote also many double-rhymed poems; and a Persian imitation of the famous Indian epic "Nala and Damajanti," designed to form the third member of an epic cycle. His scientific treatises were numerous. He died in 1595. FELDSPAR. See FELSPAR.
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