Micrometer
An instrument used for measuring very minute distances with extreme exactness. See Gauge.
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These 16 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Micrometer, Microscopy, Middelburg.
Microprosopus, The
One of the four magical elements in the Kabala; and probably representing one of the four simple elements-air, water, earth, or fire. The word . The word means "creator of the little world ."
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Microscopy
2026 Editor's Note: This page uses language about race that was commonplace when the book was published and is offensive by today's standards. The text has been left exactly as it was printed, rather than cut or softened, so that the historical record — including how ordinary such language once was — is preserved. (Ed: ET 2026-07-22) CLINICAL, the employment of the microscope to detecting pathological and physiological conditions. It has become one of the most important departments of medical science, and has been especially valuable in the discovery of the bacilli of diseases, heretofore considered almost incurable. The most common form of microscopic examination is the blood test. The greatest strides in medical therapeutics in the past generation have resulted from the employment of the microscope.
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Mid-day Demons
The ancients frequently made mention of certain demons who became visible especially towards mid-day to those with whom they had a pact. They appeared in the form of men or of beasts, and let themselves be enclosed in a character, a figure, a vial, or in the interior of a hollow ring.
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Middelburg
capital of the Dutch province of Zealand, on the island of Walcheren, 4½ miles N. E. of Flushing. In former times it was one of the lead ing mercantile cities of the United Provinces, sending many ships to the East and West Indies, and the Levant (Thomas Cromwell was one of its merchants); but its commercial importance has greatly declined. Pop. about 20,000.
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Middle States
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware, in allusion to the fact that at the time of the adoption of the Constitution they were the central commonwealths of the federation.
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Middleboro
a town in Plymouth co., Mass.; on the Nemasket river, and on the New York, New Haven, and Hartford railroad; 35 miles S. of Boston. It is one of the oldest towns in Plymouth county, having been incorporated June 1, 1669, and has many points of historic interest. The town includes the villages of North Middleboro, Four Corners, Nemasket, Puddingshire, Tack Factory, Thomastown, Waterville, the Green, South Middleboro, Rock, and Eddyville. There are gas and electric light plants, owned by the town, a high school, National and savings banks, and weekly newspapers. It has manufactories of shoes, straw goods, open grates, and woolen goods, besides sawmills, iron foundry, marble works, etc. Pop. (1910) 8,214; (1920) 8,453.
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Middlebury College
a nonsectarian institution of Middlebury, Vt., established in 1800. In 1883 women were admitted to the college, but later in 1905 a separate college was opened for them apart from the original college. 'The combined institution has about 150 students and a faculty of 30. The courses are the regular ones offered in the arts and science departments of American universities. The library has about 30,000 volumes. The endowment fund is $ 400,000 and the income about $40,000.
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Middlemarch
. See Cross ; Mrs. Mary Ann Evans
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Middlesboro
a city of Bell co., Ky., 64 miles N. E. of Knoxville, Tenn., near the Tennessee boundary line, on the Louisville and Nashville, and the Southern railroads. Is a favored resort of summer visitors, and has large hospital Coal, iron industries and city buildings. city buildings. and attractive schools. Pop. (1910) 7,305; (1920) 8,041.
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Middlesbrough
a manufacturing town, port and municipal and parliament- Vol. VI-Cyc-O ary borough of England, in the North Riding of Yorkshire. Has numerous blastfurnaces and rolling mills, foundries, engineering works, ship yards, nail works, bolt and nut works, etc.; salt is being extensively worked, there being a thick bed of rock salt at a depth of 1,300 feet. Its rapid growth has been due to its suitability as a port for the Durham coalfields, and to the smelting of iron ore abounding in the adjacent Cleveland Hills. The borough was incorporated in 1853, and returns one member to Parliament. Pop. (1917) 119,251.
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Middleton
THOMAS, an English dramatist; born in London (?), about 1570. He collaborated with Rowley, Massinger, Fletcher, and Ben Jonson, He wrote: "A Mad World, My Masters" (1608); "The Game of Chess" (1623); "The Spanish Gipsy" (1653); "Women Beware Women" (1657). He died in Newington Butts, in 1627.
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Middletown (Borough in Dauphin co Pa)
a borough in Dauphin co., Pa.; on the Susquehanna river, and on the Philadelphia and Reading, and the Pennsylvania railroads; 10 miles S- E. of Harrisburg. It contains the Emaus Orphan Home, waterworks, a high school, National banks, daily and weekly newspapers, and an electric road connecting it with Harrisburg. It is located in an agricultural and lumbering region, and has extensive iron works, planing mills and sash factory, car works, tannery, a furniture factory, etc. Pop. (1910) 5,374; (1920) 5,920.
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Middletown (City and countyseat)
a city and countyseat of Middlesex co., Conn., on the Connecticut river, and the New York, New Haven, and Hartford railroad; 15 miles S. of Hartford. It is the seat of WES- LEYAN UNIVERSITY (q. v.), the State Industrial School for Girls, the Berkeley Divinity School, and a State Insane Asylum; contains the county court house, National and savings banks, and the Russell Public Library; and has electric light and street railroad plants, improved waterworks, and manufactories of ship hardware, elastic webbing, rubber goods, pumps, hammocks, sewing machines, etc. Middletown was incorporated in September, 1651. Pop. (1910) 11,851; (1920) 13,638.
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Middletown (City in Butler co O)
a city in Butler co., O.; on the Miami river, the Miami and Erie canal, and the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton, the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis, the Cincinnati Northern and other railroads; 34 miles N. of Cincinnati. Here are waterworks on the Holly system, and electric street railroad, electric lights, National and private banks, and several daily and weekly newspapers. The city has manufactories of paper, tobacco, bicycles, motor cycles, gas engines, and agricultural implements. Pop. (1910) 13,152; (1920) 23,594.
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Middletown (City in Orange co N Y)
a city in Orange co., N. Y., on the Wallkill river, and on the Erie, New York, Ontario and Western, and the Middletown and Unionville railroads; 66 miles N. W. of New York City. There are a Union School, Middletown Academy, the Thrall Public Hospital, the State Asylum for the Insane, waterworks, public library, National banks, and several daily and weekly newspapers. The city is the center of a large country trade in live-stock and garden produce. Here are located the machine shops of the New York, Ontario and Western railroad, and there are manufactories of woolen hats, wood type, shirts, blankets, files, saws, sheet steel, condensed milk, etc. Middletown was chartered as a city in 1888, up to which year it was a part of Wallkill township. It was important in the early history of New York as a half-way station on the old Minisink road, which ran from the Hudson to the Delaware river, and was much used by emigrants on their way to western New York. Pop. (1910) 15,313, (1920) 18,420.
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