Each of these 13 subjects appears in only one of the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. None is long enough to carry a page by itself, so they are gathered here by letter. Anything that grows moves out to a page of its own.
a word, under which various substances are included, consisting chiefly of horny-like substances, epithelium, detached from the mucous surfaces and floating in a peculiar viscid, clear fluid; in some cases these secretions are altered, becoming albuminoid, etc. Mucous affections are, mucin, an inflammatory product; mucous cysts, mucous laryngitis, In botany polypi, softening tumors. gummy matter, m soluble in water. It also contains mucin.
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an animal of the salamander kind. The body is formed like that of a salamander save that it is two or three inches in diameter and is about a foot long. Feet and head are those of a salamander. The peculiarity of the animal is its gills. These are of a dark red color and wave like branching coral at each shoulder entirely outside of the gill openings. They are retained through life. The mud puppy is an inhabitant of the muddy lakes and rivers of the upper Mississippi Valley. It lives on snails, insects, and worms. Once in a while a mud puppy takes a bait intended for a fish and is brought to the surface. Otherwise it may be said to cling close to the mud.
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Amia calva, the sole species of the family Amiide. The color is dull, often dark-greenish, with black frequently spots and bands, and there is Spor a round black spot on the tail. It attains a length of about two feet; it feeds on to fluviatile crustacea. It is limited rivers and lakes of the United States, abundant between the Rocky Mountains and the Alleghenies. MUEZZIN (mö-edz'zin) (Arabic, Muzin or Muazzin; sometimes Mueddin), the official attached to the Mohammedan mosque, who announces the different times of prayer.
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Nevil Maskelyne, 8vo, London, 1792. Investigations, founded on the theory of Motion, for determinating the Times of Vibrations of Watch Ballances. George Atwood, Phil. Trans., London, 1794. Histoire de la Mesure du Temps par les Horologes. F. Berthoud, 2 vols., 4to, Paris, 1802. Pocket Watches.--Parr, London, 1804. Essai Sur l'Histoire abregee de l' Horlogerie. M. Perron, Paris, 1820 Account of Experiments to determine the Figure of the Earth by means of the Pendulum vibrating seconds in different Latitudes; as well as on other subjects of Philosophical Inquiry. Captain Sabine, 4to, London, 1825.
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The inventor of the lever escapement and a maker of marine chronometers. He was born at Exeter, England, in 1715. He was apprenticed to the celebrated George Graham in 1729. From 1750 to 1771 he was engaged in business in Fleet street, London. In 1765 he invented the lever escapement. In 1771 he removed to Plymouth. In 1777 he was made clockmaker to the king. In 1793 Parliament voted him the sum of pound2,500, he having previously received pound500, as a reward for his marine time keepers. He devoted the greater part of his life to the improvement of the marine chronometer, and his work in this line was celebrated for finish and correct proportion of details. He died Nov. 24, 1794.
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An arched vessel with a flat bottom, made of refractory materials, in which to place cupels and tests in the operations of assaying, to preserve them from coming in direct contact with the fuel. One end is open, and slits on the side allow a draught of air through it. The substances operated upon are by this means effectually shielded from the impurities of the fuel. See ASSAY.
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the title of a high Turkish office. The Grand Mufti or Sheikh-ul- Islam is the head of the great corporation of Ulema, the interpreters of the Koran, by whose decisions (when written down, Fetwas) the cadis have to judge. The chief of the Ulema is little less powerful than the grand vizier.
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a sect founded by Lodowick Muggleton (1610-1698), the son of a farrier in Bishopsgate street, London. He was a tailor, and when about 40 years old began to have visions and to hear "voices," and and asserted that he and John Reeve, another tailor, were the two witnesses mentioned in the Revelation (xi: 3.). Their chief doctrines were that the distinction of Persons in the Trinity is merely nominal; that God has a real human body, and that when He suffered on the cross He left Elijah as His viceregent in heaven. MÜHLBACH, LUISE (mülbah), pseudonym of Madame KLARA MÜLLER , wife of MUNDT; a German novelist Theodore Mundt; born in Neubrandenburg, Jan. 2, 1814. She wrote a number of popular historical novels, including ; "Em- "Queen Hortense" (5th ed. 1861) peror Joseph II. and his Court" (9th ed. 1866); "Emperor Alexander and his Court" (1868); "Frederick the Great and died his Court" (8th ed. 1882). She in Berlin, Sept. 26, 1873. MÜHLBERG (mül'berg), a town of Prussian Saxony, on the Elbe, 36 miles S. E. of Wittenberg. Here, on April 24, 1547, the Emperor Charles V. defeated John Frederick the Magnanimous, Elector of Saxony.
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Luise. See Mundt ; K. M
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an educational institution in Allentown, Pa.; founded in 1867 under the auspices of the Lutheran Church; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 14; students, 189. MÜHLHAUSEN (mül'hou-zen), a town of Prussian Saxony, on the Unstrut, 25 miles N. N. W. of Gotha; is an active center of commerce, and has manufactures of woolen and cotton goods, hosiery, etc. An important imperial free city even in the 13th century, it came to نايلاف لا JOHN MUIR Prussia in 1802, to Westphalia in 1807, and again to Prussia in 1815. Pop. about 35,000.
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in zoölogy, a term loosely used as synonymous with hybrid, more usually applied to the produce of a male ass with a mare, the mule proper (Equus asinus, variety gamma), and to the hinny (E. asinus, variety delta), the offspring of a stallion and a she-ass. The mule does not attain maturity as soon as the horse, but is useful a much longer period. In botany, a hybrid; a cross between two distinct species.
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a mineral consisting of lead sulph-antimonite. Occurs as slender, steel-gray prisms, with a metallic luster. Found in Idaho and Montana.
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