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in law, the act of indicting or charging a person with a crime or misdemeanor; the state of being indicted; a formal charge against a person or persons for a crime or misdemeanor. Also a written accusation of one or more persons of a crime or misdemeanor, preferred to and presented on oath by a grand jury.
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the name given by Columbus to his first discoveries in America, which he thought at the time were a part of India. These lands were afterward termed the West Indies, which name the islands still bear.
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EAST, a collective name vaguely applied to Hindustan, Farther India and the Indian Archipelago. See HINDUSTAN; INDIA.
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WEST. See INDIES.
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dyspepsia, difficulty of digestion, with slowness and long retention of the food in the stomach, great distress after eating, uneasiness at the pit of the stomach, fetid eructations, and unaltered ingesta in the stools. Digestion is much retarded, deficiency and abnormality of the gastric juice being a common occurrence.
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The name of those indigenous gods and heroes at Rome who once lived on earth as mortals, and were worshipped after their death as gods. Thus Aeneas , after his disappearance on the banks of the Numicus, became a deus Indiges, pater Indiges, or Jupiter Indiges; and in like manner Romulus became Quirinus , and Latinus, Jupiter Latiaris.
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a green obtained from indigo by adding potash to an alcoholic solution of an alkaline hyposulphate of indigo.
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A native sulphuret of copper, generally found uncrystallized, but sometimes occurring in hexagonal crystals. Its color is indigo-blue; contains copper 66.5, sulphur 33.5; specific gravity 4.6. It is found in the lava of Vesuvius, Bolivia, and Chili. See COPPER.
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one of the coloring matters found in commercial indigo. It may be obtained by exhausting indigo with hydrochloric sulphuric acid then with a strong caustic alkaline lye. Indigo-red may also be obtained from the fresh leaves of Polygonum tinctorium.
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a substance, obtained by heating hypo-sulphindigotate of calcium with limewater in contact with air.
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in chemistry, C16H5NO2 (Indigo-blue), the pure blue coloring matter of indigo. It is obtained from commercial indigo, by reducing it to indigo-white, by means of reducing agents, such as ferrous salts, grape sugar, etc., the resulting yellow solution of the indigo-white metallic compound, on exposure to the air, depositing indigo-blue in small crystals.
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a system in which the source of light is hidden behind opaque screens or shades, the light rays being diffused by reflection from ceiling or walls. Semi-indirect lighting is accomplished by the use of translucent bowls or screens which conceal the lighting units and prevent direct glare. The indirect system has grown in popularity both on account of the distracting effects of direct lighting and for esthetic reasons.
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in chemistry, C15H17NO5, a dark-brown shining resin, produced, together with other bodies, by heating indican with dilute sulphuric acid.
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in chemistry, C&H.NO, a crystalline compound, obtained by the decomposition of indican by means of an acid, but more abundantly by treating Indian wood leaves in an alkaline solution of stannous chloride, the liquid depositing indirubin on exposure to the air. Indirubin is isomeric with indigo-blue, and resembles indigo-root in many of its properties.
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a very rare metal, occurring It was in minute quantities in zinc ores. discovered by F. Reich and Th. Richter, in 1863, in the zinc-blende of Freiburg. The metal itself is of a lead-gray color, soft, malleable, fusible, but not very volatile.
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also called ARYAN or INDO-GERMANIC, the most important of the great families into which human speech has been divided, spoken by various peoples in Asia and Europe. The chief branches of this family are the Teutonic or Germanic, including English, German, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, and the extinct Gothic; the Slavonic (Polish, Russian, Bohemian); the Lithuanian; the Celtic (Welsh, Irish, Gaelic, Breton); the Latin or Italic, and the Romance tongues descended from it (French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese); the Greek, the Armenian, the Persian, and the Sanskrit. All these tongues are regarded as being descended from ancestral common a tongue or parent speech, spoken at some remote period in Central Asia.
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the capital of the Maharaja Holkar's dominions. Pop. about 100,000, mostly Hindus. During the revolt of 1857, though the maharaja remained faithful to the British government, his troops mutinied in July, holding their prince a prisoner in his own palace, and butchering many Europeans in cold blood. The town dates only from 1770.
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a Mahratta principality of India, comprising the territories of the Holkar dynasty, covers an area of 9,500 square miles. The bulk of it lies between Sindhia's dominions on the N. and Bombay Presidency on the S., its length from N. to S. being 120 miles, and its breadth 82. It is traversed from E. to W. by the Nerbudda, which almost bisects it; by the Vindhya Mountains, and by the Satpura Mountains. Principal products, poppy, cotton, tobacco, wheat, rice, millets, etc.; principal industries, cotton and opium manufacture. Pop. about 1,100,000. The Vindhyas and Satpuras have from time immemorial been the home of the Bhils, the wildest of the aboriginal tribes in India. The State was founded about the middle of the 18th century by Malhar Rao, a soldier of fortune, who served the Peshwa. In 1818 the ruler of the Holkar dominions was reduced to the position of a feudatory prince of the British Indian empire.
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the term generally used to denote the writing of the name of the holder on the back of a bill of exchange or promissory note, on transferring or assigning it to another. Signing the name "A. B." alone is a blank indorsement. When personal liability is to be avoided the words "without recourse" are added, and in this case no demand can come back on the indorser, who would otherwise be liable. The word indorsement is also frequently used to denote any matters written or indorsed on the back of writs or deeds, as indorsements on declarations, on writs of summons, etc.
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a department of France lying S. of the department of Loir-et-Cher; area, 2,679 square miles. It is watered by the Indre, the Creuse, and its tributary, the Anglin. The surface is generally flat, and the land fertile, producing large crops of wheat and barley. The two principal resources of the department, however, are its vineyards and its flocks. Chief towns: Châteauroux, the capital, Le Blanc, Issoudun, and La Châtre. Pop. about 300,000.
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