These 10 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Malic Acid, Malignants, Malines.
in chemistry, C₂H₂O COOH CH3OHX COOH Discovered by Scheele in 1785. It is very widely diffused through the vegetable kingdom, chiefly in combination with potassium and calcium. It is found in abundance in nearly all garden fruits, such as apples, cherries, and strawberries.
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a term used in England by the Parliament men to designate those whom they considered to be the evil advisers of Charles I. They are so called in the "Grand Remonstrance," Laud and Strafford being singled out as the most prominent, and to their door are laid all the evils which afflicted the kingdom. Afterward the name was extended to all who sided with the king against the Parliament.
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or MECHLIN (meh'lin), a city of Belgium, on the Dyle, 14 miles S. S. E. of Antwerp. It has fine squares, noble buildings, and wide regular streets, but has lost its former greatness, and fallen far behind other Belgian cities in commercial enterprise and industrial activity. As the see of the primate of Belgium it still retains a certain degree of ecclesiastical importance, and possesses numerous churches, the most noteworthy of which is St. Rombold's Cathedral, a vast building, covering nearly two acres, its interior adorned with Van Dyck's "Crucifixion." It was mostly built in 1437-1452, but its clock tower, 324 feet high, remains unfinished. The churches of St. John and of Our Lady contain works by Rubens; the town hall dates from the 15th century; the Cloth Hall (1340) is now used as a guard house; noteworthy also are the splendid modern archiepiscopal palace, the Beguinage, the Salm inn (1534), and the monument to Margaret of Austria (1849). The manufacture of pillow lace, so famous in the 17th century (see LACE), has been largely transferred to Brussels, etc.; but linen and woolen fabrics, beer, needles, etc., are made here. The city was captured by the Germans in August, 1914, but they were forced out by Belgians of the Antwerp garrison. The Germans bombarded and regained the place, holding it to the close of the war. Pop. about 60,000.
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feigning disease on the part of a soldier, sailor, prisoner, etc., in order to obtain discharge from service, or escape from duty or labor. As defined in the British Army Act of the previous application of a ligature, 1881 it implies some overt act, such as or the taking of some drug, which produced the appearance of the disease said to exist. A worse form of the same crime, "wilfully maiming"-as blowing off the trigger-finger-is erroneously called malingering.
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an old French word, allied to male, and signifying a wild drake or male of the common wild duck (Anas boschas). By extension, the term is applied to both sexes of the common wild duck. The mallard is one of the most widely distributed ducks. It is intelligent and strong of wing. It ranges throughout the north temperate zone, nesting in China, Siberia, northern Europe, Canada, and the northern United States , and migrating as far southward as Panama and India for the winter. The nest is a basket of grass, lined with down from the breast of the duck. Eggs, about fourteen. The drake is a bird of fine carriage and is about twenty-two inches long. He has a brilliant, metallic-green head and neck. The breast is chestnut; the back is a pearly gray; the wing is trimmed with rich purple; the long black upper tail-coverts are recurved. The duck has a modest domestic appearance and is clad in brown picked out with black. In England the wild mallard is known as the stock-duck, because it is the ancestor of most of the domestic varieties. The mallard is distinctively a duck of the interior, breeding in grassy situations near great waters. Save in point of shyness, it is difficult to distinguish the wild duck from the tame. See Duck Mallard ducks
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A property possessed by metals which renders them capable of being beaten out with a hammer or pressed into plates between rollers. Gold surpasses all metals in malleability, being capable of reduction into films not exceeding the 200,000th of an inch in thickness, whilst iron has been rolled into sheets less than the 2500th of an inch in thickness. The malleability of metals is here given in their respective order of value, beginning with the highest: Gold, silver, copper, tin, cadmium, platinum, lead, zinc, iron, nickel, palladium. See DUCTILITY; METALS; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS.
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A malleable brass is obtained by alloying 33 parts of copper and 25 parts zinc; the copper is first thrown into the pot, which is covered slightly and fused. As soon as the copper is smelted, the zinc, to be free from sulphur, is added, and cast into ingots.
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A marker of the game of tennis, living in the Rue Sainte-Geneviève, Paris, who in 1618 was visited by an apparition of his wife, who had died five years before She came to advise him to repent and live a better life, and to pray for her also. Both Mallebranche and his wife (for he had married a second time) heard the voice, but the apparition did not become visible. In 1618 a brochure was published at Paris, entitled: Histoire nouvelle et remarquable de l'esprit d'une femme qui c'est apparue au Faubourg Saint-Marcel après qu'elle a demeué cinq ans entiers ensevelie; elle a parlé a son mari, lui a commandé de faire prier pour elle, ayant commencé de parler le mardi 11 Decembre,
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one of the provinces of Chile. The W. part is mountainous, the main product of the province being timber taken from the well-wooded slopes. Area, 2,900 square miles; pop. about 120,000.
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WILLIAM HURRELL, an English author; born in Devonshire, England, in 1849. He was educated by a private tutor, and afterward at Oxford, where, in 1871, he gained the Newdigate Prize Poem. He never entered a profession, though at one time he contemplated the diplomatic service. "The New Republic," most of which he wrote while at Oxford, was published in 1876; a year later "The New Paul and Virginia"; in 1879 "Is Life Worth Living?" appeared; in 1880 a small edition of "Poems," written, most of them, many years previous; the following year "A Romance of the Nineteenth Century," and, in 1882, "Social Equality." Other of his works are "Every Man His Own Poet"; "Property and Progress"; "Labor and the Popular Welfare" (1893); "Aristocracy and Evolution" (1898); "Reconstruction of a Belief" (1905); "The Nation as a Business Firm" (1910). MALLORCA. See MAJORCA.
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