These 14 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Gambling, Gambrinus, Gandamak.
playing at games of hazard or chance for money. Strictly speaking, gambling may be understood as gaming in its worst sense, and as implying professional play for a money stake by men who are unscrupulous adepts at so-called games of chance.
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a mythical king of Flanders, to whom is ascribed the invention of beer. His figure is familiar in German beer-cellars, often seated astride a cask, a foaming tankard in his hand.
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a village of Afghanistan, between Cabul and Peshawar, where, during the retreat from Kabul in 1842, the last remnant of the British force was massacred, only one man making his escape. Here also a treaty was signed with Yakub Khan in 1879. See AFGHANISTAN.
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in human anatomy, (1) a small mass of vascular neurine, neurine, situated in the course of a nerve, and distinct both from the brain and from the spinal cord. The sympathetic system of nerves consists of a series of ganglia, extending on each side of the vertebral column, from the head to the coccyx, connecting with all the other nerves of the body. Each ganglion is a distinct center, giving off branches in four directions, superior, inferior, external, and internal. They are divided into cranial ganglia, cervical, thoracic, etc., (2) a lymphatic gland. In comparative anatomy, a center of the nervous system, containing nerve cells, and receiving and giving out impressions. In surgery, a globular indolent tumor, situated on the course of a tendon. It is produced by the elevation of a sheath of the tendon and the infusion into it of a viscid fluid. In botany, the mycelium of certain fungals.
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a tendency to death or mortification, but stopping short of the complete process. It may affect an organ, such as the lung, but this is rare, or the soft tissues, which is common, particularly of the foot, especially in the aged, as senile gangrene. When part remains alive it is gangrene, when it is completely dead sphacelus. So in bone, caries and necrosis occur, the first as gangrene or incomplete, the second as sphacelus of complete death. Degeneration differs from gangrene in not becoming isolated or putrid, but, if not absorbed, remaining in continuity with surrounding parts. Gangrene of soft parts is usually termed sloughing. Necramia, or death of the blood, and sequestrum, or a dead piece of bone, are examples of gangrenous lesions.
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a passage or means of temporary access to a place or building, consisting of an inclined plane of planks; specifically, the opening in the bulwarks of a vessel by which persons come on board or disembark; also the temporary bridge affording means of passing from the ship to the shore, or vice versa. To bring to the gangway, to punish a sailor by seizing and flogging him. In the British House of Commons, a narrow passage running across the House and dividing the seats on each side into two parts. Above the gangway, that is, near the Speaker's end of the House, sit the Ministry and Opposition with their respective adherents, the former on the Speaker's right, the latter on his left. Below the gangway sit the neutral or independent members. In mining a main level, applied chiefly to coal mines.
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or AN- HWEI (än-hwā'ē), an E. inland province of China, intersected by the Yang-tse- Kiang.
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HENRY, an American geographer; born in Bath, Me., Aug. 24, 1846; was graduated at the Lawrence Scientific School, in 1869; became geographer of the United States Geological Survey in 1882; was geographer of the 10th, 11th, and 12th censuses, and of those taken by the War Department in Cuba and Porto Rico in 1899. His publications include "Manual of Topographic Surveying"; "Statistical Atlases 10th and 11th Censuses"; "Dictionary of Altitudes"; "Commercial Geography"; etc. He died in 1914.
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A highly refractory siliceous rock, used very extensively in the several processes connected with the manufacture of steel and in the production of steel castings, but especially as a lining for the Bessemer converters. Ground quartz, sand, and fire-clay are mixed with this substance in varying proportions; but the silica, about 90 per cent, is cemented to some extent by the argillaceous matter it contains, making it in some instances sufficiently cohesive for ramming around a plug, and thus forming a solid lining in converters and steel-melting furnaces without any ad-mixture of alumina, etc., in which case the shrinkage is materially reduced and the original shape retained under very intense heat. See CONVERTER; REFRACTORY MATERIALS.
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A beautiful youth of Phrygia. He was taken to heaven by Jupiter while tending flocks on Mount Ida, and he became the cupbearer of the gods in place of Hebe . Garumna (Garonne). One of the chief rivers of Gaul, rising in the Pyrenees, flowing northwest through Aquitania, and becoming a bay of the sea below Burdigala (Bordeaux).
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RUDOLPH, a pianist and composer, born in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1877. He studied music in Switzerland and Germany and made his first appearance in Zurich at the age of 12. He later made extensive concert tours in Europe and in 1900 came to the United States. He taught music in Chicago from 1902 to 1905. In the latter he abandoned teaching to undertake concert tours. He appeared with the leading orchestras and musical United organizations throughout the States and Canada. His musical works include a symphony, many piano pieces, and over 200 songs.
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the mountain capital of the French department of Ilautes Alpes; on the Luye river; 2,424 feet above sealevel, among vine-clad slopes, 47 miles S. E. of Grenoble. It has a cathedral (rebuilt since 1866), and some manufactures of silk and cotton fabrics, and hats. The ancient Vapincum, it was formerly a fortress of some importance, and gave the title of Gapençois to the surrounding district of Dauphiné. Pop. about 11,000.
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LA, ruined a château in Brittany, 2 miles from Dinan. Its last owners, Claude Toussaint and his countess, in the first half of the 18th century converted it into a hospital.
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or GAR- BOARD STREAK, in shipbuilding, the range of planks nearest to the keel. In the merchant service, the rabbet to receive the garboard strake is made along the upper edge of the keel. In the navy, a groove is made half-way down the keel to receive the garboard strake.
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