These 15 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Hitopadesa, Hivaoa, Hivites.
a collection of fables and stories in Sanskrit literature, usually ascribed to the compilation of the Brahman Vishnusarman. It is a popular summary in four books of the larger work, the famous "Panchatantra," which directly and indirectly has been the source whence a rich stream of folk-tales has flowed over Europe.
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an island in the South Pacific Ocean, the largest of the S. W. group of the Marquesas; 22 miles long E. to W.; about 10 miles greatest breadth. It is mountainous, and bears indications of volcanic eruptions. Pop. about 3,500.
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a Canaanitish people, the main body of whom lived in the region from Lebanon and Hermon to Hamath, but who had colonies, apparently isolated, in Southern Palestine, as at Gibeon. HLASSA. See LHASSA.
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An evil spirit. (See Burma .)
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GEORGE FRISBIE, an American statesman; born in Concord, Mass., GEORGE FRISBIE HOAR Aug. 29, 1826; a brother of Ebenezer R.; was a member of Congress in 1869- 1877; member of the Electoral Commission in 1877; and was elected United States Senator in the same year, and in 1888, 1889, 1895, and 1901. Died at Worcester, Mass., Sept. 30, 1904.
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EBENEZER ROCKWOOD, an American jurist; born in Concord, Mass., Feb. 21, 1816; was judge of the Massachusetts Supreme Court in 1859-1869; United States attorney-general in 1869- 1870; joint high commissioner on the Treaty of Washington in 1871, and member of Congress in 1873-1875. He was the son of Samuel Hoar, a lawyer and member of Congress in 1835-1837, and his mother was a daughter of Roger Sherman. He died in Concord, Mass., Jan. 31, 1895.
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a plant of the mint family. The common white hoarhound occurs native in Europe, northern Africa, and northern Asia. The square stems are covered with a hoary down, whence the popular name of the plant. The blossoms are sessile and crowded into a dense whorl at the base of the leaf. When cut in bloom, the leaves are charged with a volatile, aromatic oil, known to the druggist as hoarhound. It is used in flavoring candy, and in medicine as a remedy for coughs and asthma. It is obtained from the leaves by distillation. Mongolian Sow. Bavarian Sow. Yorkshire Sow and Boar. Berkshire Boar. Hogs
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an affection of the throat causing harshness and roughness of voice, due to irregular and imperfect bringing together of the vocal cords, most frequently from swelling of the mucous membrane of the cords, and excessive secretion of mucus in their neighborhood.
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or HOACTZIN, Opisthocomus cristatus, a singular gregarious South American bird, sometimes called the crested touraco. The plumage is brown streaked with white, and the head has a movable crest. It is of the size of a pheasant, and has an enormous crop with a very small gizzard.
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Hobart Town, the capital of Tasmania; at the foot of Mount Wellington (4,166 feet), on the Derwent river; about 12 miles from its mouth. Among the public buildings are the government house, the government offices, the houses of Parliament, town hall, postoffice, museum, Episcopal and Roman Catholic cathedrals. There are several jam manufactories, breweries, flour mills, tanneries, a woolen factory, etc.; and in connection with the shipping interest first-class patent slips. Pop. (1917) 40,352.
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an institution for higher education, at Geneva, N. Y. In 1919 the faculty numbered 26, and the students 95. The library contains about 60,000 volumes, and the annual income amounts to about $85,000. President, M. Bartkett, D.D. HOBART, GARRET AUGUSTUS, a Vice-President of the United States; born in Long Branch, N. J., June 3, 1844; was graduated at Rutgers College in 1863, and admitted to the bar in GARRET A. HOBART 1869; practiced in Paterson, N. J.; was a member of the New Jersey Assembly in 1873-1874, and speaker during the latter year. Later he was chosen a member of the State Senate, of which he was president in 1881-1882. In Novem- HOBBEMA ber, 1896, he was elected Vice-President of the United States. He died in Paterson, N. J., Nov. 21, 1899.
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MEINDERT or MIN- DERHOUT (hob'ēmä), a Dutch landscape painter; born in Amsterdam in 1638. His paintings consist chiefly of forest scenes, ruins, villages, etc., and are highly valued for their excellence in perspective and coloring. The figures in them were generally painted by others. He died in 1709.
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THOMAS, an English philosopher; born in Malmesbury, in 1588. He lived on intimate terms with Bacon, Ben Jonson and all the distinguished men of his time; he became tutor to the Prince of Wales, afterward Charles II., and though many of his philosophical and political opinions have been condemned, he must be considered the father of psychology, and the first great English writer on the science of government. His principal works are the treatises "On the Citizen" and "The Leviathan," both of which were censured by Parliament in 1666; "Human Nature"; "On the Body Politic"; "On Liberty, Necessity and Cause"; and "Behemoth." He died in 1679.
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An English domestic fairy or brownie of nocturnal habits. He is of a happy disposition, and is believed to be one of the courtiers, probably the jester, at the court of Oberon. Reginald Scot, in his Discovery of Witchcraft says:-" Your grandames' maids were wont to set a bowl of milk for him for his pains in grinding of malt and mustard, and sweeping the house at midnight. This white bread, and milk, was his standard fee." He is perhaps best known in Britain by his appellation of Puck, and his qualities and attributes are represented under this name in Shakespeare's "Midsummer's Night's Dream." By some he is believed to be the demon who leads men astray during the night. Sometimes he is clothed in a suit of leather close to his body, and sometimes he wore green. He is usually represented as full of tricks and mischief.
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a popular expression equivalent to "this or none." It is said to have originated in the custom of one Tobias Hobson, a carrier and the keeper of a livery stable at Cambridge, England, at the time Milton was a student. Probably with a view to treating his horses fairly, Hobson required his customers to take the horse that stood nearest the door--the first he came to. This eccentric character died in 1631. Milton wrote his epitaph. Hobson is described in the Spectator, No. 509.
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