These 15 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Injection, Injector, Inke Inkbag.
the act of filling the vessels and other minute tubular organs of animals with colored substances more clearly to exhibit their relative rangement, and relation to the surrounding parts. The color is injected by means of a syringe. Also the art of i jecting any therapeutic agent into the rectum, or of introducing such agent under the skin, etc.; that which is injected.
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a steam boiler feeder, composed of a bou, or casing enclosing one or more series of converging and diverging nozzles, so arranged and proportioned that the entering steam will cause a continuous injection of feed water against the initial boiler pressure. The body is provided with branches for the steam, water, and delivery pipes, and a waste pipe or overflow. In England and the Continent, the branches are on flanged, but in the United States screw coupling nuts are used. Both the body and the tubes are made of some durable non-corroding material, preferably bronze or red brass. writ or process
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a gland found in the Cephalopoda. It is tough and fibrous, with a thin outer coat. The animal discharges the contents of the bag through a duct into the water when it wishes to conceal itself or escape from an enemy.
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. See Crimean War
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a village of Russia, in the S. of the Crimea. During the Crimean War, the Russians, nearly 50,000 strong, assailed the weakest part of the English position facing the harbor of Balaklava and the caverns of Inkermann, Nov. 5, 1854. For six hours, 8,000 British troops encountered at various points and resisted the assault of this overwhelming force. The French came to the support of the English, and the Russians were driven back with great slaughter.
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. See Hotel
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a house where travelers are furnished, for the profit of the provider, with everything they have occasion for while on their journey. Innkeepers are bound to take in all travelers and wayfaring persons, and to entertain them if they have accommodation for them and are bound to give to such accommodation at reasonable charges, provided they behave themselves properly. As a protection they have a lien on the goods of their lodgers (with the exception of the clothing which they are actually wearing), so that they may retain them as security. Inns of Chancery, colleges in England in which young students formerly began their law studies. They are now occcиpied chiefly by attorneys and solicitors. Inns of Court, colleges or corporate societies in London, to one of which all barristers and students for the bar must belong; also the buildings belonging to such societies in which the members of the inn dine together, and barristers have their chambers. There are four such inns-viz.: the Inner Temple, the Middle Temple, Gray's Inn, and Lincoln's Inn.
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a river of Germany, the most important Alpine affluent of the Danube, rises in the S. of the Swiss canton of Grisons, and flows N. E. through the valley of the Engadine, and through Tyrol and Bavaria to its junction with the Danube at Passau in a stream broader than that of the Danube. Its total course is 317 miles.
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the term generally supposed to correspond to the koinai ennoiai of the Stoics-"general notions developed in the course of nature in all men"-though the earlier teachers of that school regarded these ideas as the natural outgrowth of perceptions, not as innate. On the Continent the doctrine of innate ideas was revived by Descartes, who held that the notion of things, truth, and thought were naturally common to all men. The doctrine will be found in the "Treatise on Truth" of Lord Herbert of Cherbury. On the opposite side, Locke ("Human Understanding," book i.).
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GEORGE, an American painter; born in Newburgh, N. Y., May 1, 1825; studied painting in New York and Europe; resided in Italy in 1871-1875. His "American Sunset" was exhibited in the Paris Exposition of 1867. His other works include "Peace and Plenty," "A Vision of Faith," "The Valley of the Shadow of Death," "A Passing Storm," "The Morning Sun," "Delaware Water- Gap," etc. He died Aug. 3, 1894.
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GEORGE, JR.; an American artist, born in Paris, in 1854, the son of George Inness. He studied under his father in Rome from 1870 to 1874 and afterwards took art courses in Paris. He lived in the United States from 1878 but maintained a studio in Paris from 1895 to 1899. He exhibited at the Paris Salon and in 1900 received a gold medal. He was a member of the National Academy. He wrote "Art, Life, and Letters of George Inness" (1917).
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an old name for Ireland.
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the English name the for feast celebrated on Dec. 28, to commemorate the massacre of the children of Bethlehem by Herod, in the hope of killing Jesus. It was probably first celebrated toward the close of the 5th, or early in the 6th century. It is known in the Latin Church as the Feast of Holy Innocents, and Mass is said in purple vestments, probably because the Innocents "did not enter heaven till Christ at believe." On the octave the vestments His Ascension opened it to those who are red, the proper color of martyrs. In the Greek Church the feast is celebrated on Dec. 29, and is known as the Feast of the 14,000 Holy Children.
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the of the vessels which_proceed from the largest arch of the aorta. It arises from the transverse portion of the arch before the carotid artery. It ascends obliquely ward the right, and divides into the right tosubclavian and the right carotid artery. It varies in length from 2 inches to 1 inch or less. Called also the brachycephalic artery.
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the os coxæ, or pelvic bone. It is constricted in the middle and expanded above and below, and much bent. It articulates with its fellow of the and opposite side, with the sacrum, in three portions; the ilium, the os pubis, with the femur. In early life it is and the ischium. They begin to ossify before birth, but the process is not completed till the 23d or 25th year.
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