These 12 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Fescue, Fess, Fessenden.
fes'ku, a genus of grasses. The fescues are akin to the brome grasses. There are about eighty species, widely distributed throughout the north temperate zone. The fescues are of less importance in America than in Europe, especially in England, where they form the chief reliance for lawns and pastures. They take the place largely of our timothy and blue grass .
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SIMEON D., an American educator and congressman, born in Allen co., O., in 1861. He was educated at the Ohio Northern University and studied law at the same institution. He was professor of American history, head of the College of Law, and vice-president of the Ohio Northern University, from 1889 to 1902. From 1902 to 1907 he was graduate student and lecturer of the University of Chicago. In the latter year he was appointed president of Antioch College, ser serving until 1917. In 1910 he was delegate and vice-president of the Ohio Constitutional Convention. elected to Congress in 1913 and again in 1915. During this service he was chairman of the committee on education, and during the campaign of 1918 was chairman of the Republican National Congressional Campaign Committee. He wrote "Outline of United States History" (1897); "American Political Theory" (1907); and "Civics in Ohio" (1910).
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WILLIAM PITT, an American statesman; born in Boscawen, assumed in the 13th century by the Franciscans by direction of their founder to mark the humble character of their claims. Specifically, one of the names claimed in the 14th century as a monopoly by the section of the Franciscans who remained true to the rigid rules of their founder when the majority of the order gradually welcomed some relaxation of their stringency. In 1317 Pope John XXII. ordered their extirpation and many of them were cruelly put to death.
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a small town in northern France, three miles S. of Neuve Chapelle, the center of intensive fighting be tween the British forces and the Germans in the early part of the World War. From it was named the Battle of Festubert, which was a forward movement undertaken by the British during May, 1915, with the object of preventing the Germans from sending re-enforcements to Lens, where the French were being hard pressed. The battle proper began on the morning of May 9, 1915, the British offensive extend ing from Armentières to La Bassée. The attack lasted several days, but ended in failure, demonstrating the superiority of the Germans in heavy artillery at that time.
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PORCIUS, pro-Consul and Governor of Judæa, before ber whom St. Paul was accused by the Jews; but the apostle appealing to the emperor, Festus sent him to Rome. Also, a celebrated Latin grammarian who lived between the 2d and 4th centuries.
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2026 Editor's Note: This page uses language about race that was commonplace when the book was published and is offensive by today's standards. The text has been left exactly as it was printed, rather than cut or softened, so that the historical record — including how ordinary such language once was — is preserved. (Ed: ET 2026-07-22) or worshiping of a fetich. The word fetich is said to be derived from the Portuguese word fetiso, bewitched, and was applied originally to the objects worshiped by the negroes of Africa. The term is applied to anything in nature or art to which a magical power is ascribed, as stones, carved images, etc. Fetichism is the worship of material substances, and prevails very extensively among barbarous nations. Among them, tribes, families, and individuals have their respective fetiches; which are often objects casually selected, as stones, weapons, vessels, plants, etc., and the rude worshiper does not hesitate to chastise, or even throw away or destroy his fetich, if it does not seem to gratify his desires.
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A puddler's term for preparing the puddling-furnace hearth with a mixture composed chiefly of old furnace-bottoms, crushed and mixed with tap-cinder and scales. See MILL-CINDER; MALLEABLE IRON; PUDDLE-STEEL.
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rea formed branch of the Cistercian order of monks. It was founded by Jean de la Barrière, abbot of the Cistercian monastery of Feuillans near Toulouse, in 1577, to the grea great laxity of who, being opposed discipline that then prevailed, introduced a much more austere mode of life. They Sixtus V. were declared independent by V. in 1589. They were afterward divided, in 1630, into two congregations by Pope Urban VIII., who separated the French from the Italian.
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OCTAVE (fe-ya'), a French novelist; born in St. Lô, Aug. 11, 1821. "The Great Old Man" (1845) was his first story; but the "Romance of a Poor Young Man" (1858), (1858), which was . dramatized, first made him famous Among his numerous other novels are: "The History of Sibylla" (1862), "Julia de Trécœur" (1872), "A Marriage in Parisi- High Life" (1875); "Story of a enne"; "La Morte" (1886). He was also a successful playwright. He was elected to the Academy in 1863. He died in Paris, Dec. 29, 1890.
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a disease or rather a whole group of diseases, one general, though not universal, symptom of which is increased heat of the skin, besides which the pulse is frequent, and various functions are disturbed. Fevers may be divided into continued, periodic, and eruptive or exanthematous. Under the first are ranked typhus, typhoid, and relapsing fevers; under the second, intermittents and remittents; and under the third variola, rubeola, and scarlatina. Yellow fever belongs to the remittent rather than the continued type; so also Puerperal fever does hectic fever. should be removed to the class of inflammations.
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To possess second sight . (See Teutons .)
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fya'kr, a Parisian cab. The origin of the name is interesting. Saint Fiacre is the French patron saint of gardening. Carriages for hire were first kept at the inn of St. Fiacre about 1650. The Paris fiacre is a one-horse covered carriage designed to accommodate from one to four passengers. The fiacre may be entered from either side. An outside seat and boot in front serves for the driver and luggage. Automobiles are said to be driving the fiacre from the streets of Paris. See Carriage
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