These 10 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Fomentation, Fond Du Lac, Fong Onhang.
the application of a liquid, such as water, generally warm, to a portion of the body to remove external or internal disease. The application is usually made by means of flannel, steeped in the liquid. If the water be charged with mucilaginous principles, it is called emollient; if with a narcotic one it is said to be sedative or anodyne.
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a city and countyseat of Fond du Lac co., Wis., on Winnebago lake, at the mouth of Fond du Lac river, and on the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul, the Chicago and Northwestern, and the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie railroads; 60 miles N. W. of Milwaukee. There is steamboat connection through Winnebago Lake and Fox river with all the Great Lakes. Here are a high school, St. Agnes Hospital and Sanatorium, a court house, Grafton Hall (Prot. Epis.), seve several banks, and daily and weekly newspapers. It has manufactories of engines, machinery, flour, paper, carriages, lumber, leather, typewriters, drugs, candies, etc. Pop. (1910) 18,797; (1920) 23,427.
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Fabulous birds to which the Chinese attribute he is treated with much respect. almost the same qualities as are attributed to the phenix. The women adorn themselves with the image of this bird,
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A mysterious operation practised in China , in osophy, Logos .) the disposition of buildings, and particularly of tombs. If someone should chance to build in a position contrary to his neighbours, so that the corner of his house faced the side of a house belonging to someone else, the latter believes that the worst of misfortune will befall him. Longstanding feuds may result from the unfortunate action. The remedy consists in placing in a chamber a dragon or other monster in terra-cotta, facing the corner of the fatal edifice. The terrible gaze of the monster will repulse the evil influence. Incense is burned before the dragon, and
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A gem said to assuage anger. in gold, silver, or brass, according to their means.
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the vessel which contains the water for the purposes of baptism. The font is the only relic of our ancient architecture which in its form is at all analogous to the Grecian and Roman vases. Norman fonts are generally square or circular; the first frequently placed on five legs. The circular form continued to be much used during the early English period; so, occasionally, was the square. Throughout the continuance of the Decorated style, the octagon was generally employed, sometimes the hexagon. During the Perpendicular style, the octagon was almost always used. Until the Reformation, and occasionally after, dipping was practiced in England. Pouring or sprinkling was not unusual previous to the Reformation; for as early as the year 754, pouring, in cases of necessity, was declared by Pope Stephen III. to be lawful; and in the year 1811, the Council of Ravenna declared dipping or sprinkling indifferent; yet dipping appears to have been in England the more usual mode. Fonts were required to be covered and locked, and the covers were highly ornamented.
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This Flemish alchemist and poet appears to have lived at Valenciennes towards the close of the thirteenth century. Two books are ascribed to him, La Fontaine des Amoureux de Science and La Fontaine Perilleuse, both of which are written in French and were published at Paris, the first-named in 1561 and the second eleven years later. His claims to the authorship of the latter work have frequently been disputed, but the former is almost certainly his, and a curious production it is. At the outset the author professes himself an adept in hermetic philosophy, and thereafter he proceeds, in poetry of an allegorical style which recalls The Romaunt of the Rose , to describe the different processes to be gone through ere achieving a transmutation. There is little in this metrical treatise which indicates that the writer was an alchemist of any great ability, but he certainly possessed a distinct Fontenettes, Charles. : Author of a Dissertation sur une fille gift for making pleasant if hardly powerful verses. de Grenoble, qui depuis quatre ans ne boit ni ne mange, 1737. This prodigy was commonly attributed to the devil, but Fontenettes explained that it was due to a less sinister cause.
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Zinc predominates in these bronzes, with copper, cast iron, and lead in varying proportions, according to the quality desired. It is an excellent alloy for casting into metal moulds, the metal being rendered more homogeneous by that mode of casting. The crystalline nature of the zinc is changed by the addition of these alloys, being hard and close-grained, like steel, although it yields to the file better than either copper or zinc. The proportions of those which have been found best for general use are as follows: Zinc. Copper. Lead. Cast Iron. 90 8 1 1 91 8 1 92 8 92 7 1 97 3 97 2 1/2 1/2 99 1 99 1/2 1/2 See BRONZE; ALLOY; COPPER; ZINC.
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BATTLE OF, one of the most famous battles in the War of the Austrian Succession. It was fought at a small village of the same name, in western Belgium. Here, May 11, 1745, the French under Marshal Saxe defeated the Allies under the Duke of Cumberland, with very heavy loss on both sides.
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in measurement, the standard of length. The foot is the historic standard of length among the English-speaking people. The common foot of twelve inches is derived, no doubt, in name at least, from the length of the human foot. Nearly all civilized nations have a similar unit of length bearing a name of similar significance. The actual length of the foot, however, as a standard of measure, varies greatly. The Greek foot, or unit of length, supposed to represent the length of the foot of Hercules, is 12.14 English inches. The Macedonian foot is 14.08 inches. The foot of Sicily is 8.75 inches; the foot of Rome, 11.62; of Milan, 13.68; of Brussels, 10.86; of Geneva, the longest of all, 19.21 inches. According to measurements made by United States military authorities, the average length of the foot of the American soldier is 10.05 inches. During the reign of the English king, Henry I, a yard, popularly supposed to represent the length of his arm, was established as a standard. The foot was declared to be one-third of this standard yard. See Weights And Measures
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