These 14 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Oration, Oratory, Orbas.
a city of Texas, the countyof Orange seat co. It is on the Sabine river, and on the Intercoastal canal, and on the Orange and Northwestern and the Texas and New Orleans railroads. It has important lumber interests. It is a shipping center for rice, cotton, and live stock. Its industries include the manufacture of lumber, paper, and oil. Pop. (1910) 5,527; (1920) 9,212.
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or GARIEP, the largest river of South Africa, rises in the Kathlamba Mountains, in the E. of Basutoland, and flows W., with an inclination to the N., to the Atlantic ocean. It describes numerous wide curves in its course of 1,000 miles, and separates Cape Colony, on the S., from the Orange Free State, Griqualand W West, Bechuanaland, and Great Namaqualand, on the N. Area of basin, 325,000 square miles. Its principal tributaries are the Caledon and the Vaal, both joining it from the right. Its volume varies greatly between the dry season, when it is not navigable, and the rainy season, when it overflows its banks in the upper part of its course. Its mouth is, moreover, obstructed by a bar.
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properly Citrus aurantium, the sweet orange. The leaves are ovate, oblong, acute, sli slightly serrulated; petiole more or less winged; the pulp is sweet. It is a native of India, and by some botanists is believed to be only a variety of the citron (C. medica). It was intro- ORANGE duced into the S. of Europe about the 12th century, having been brought into Arabia about three centuries earlier. It lives about 600 years. Among the many varieties are the China orange, which is the common orange of the markets; the blood, or Malta orange; the St. Michael's orange; the noble, or mandarin orange; the navel, or seedless, etc. The orange contains malic acid; the rind is bitter and aromatic; the fruit itself is said to be disinfectant. Orange poultice has been recommended in India in skin diseases. There are various allied species, specially the bitter, or Seville orange, C. bigaradia, largely imported for the manufacture of candied orange peel, etc. It, too, has run into several varieties. In Florida and Southern California vast orange plantations are providing immense crops of many varieties of the orange. In 1918-1919 California shipped over 49,063 carloads of citrus fruits, worth more than $100,000,000.
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an elaborate speech or discourse, composed according to the rules of oratory, and delivered in public, and treating of some important subject in elevated and dignified language; an eloquent speech prepared beforehand and spoken in public.
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an apartment in a private line which bounded the stage in front of the first row of the ascending steps. In the Greek theater this space was always occupied by the chorus. In Roman comedy there was no chorus; and in Roman tragedies, both the chorus and
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The name given by the French to a species of metallic electrum. According to Pliny a vessel of this substance has a certain magical property; when it is filled with liquor is discovers poison by showing semi-circles like rainbows, while the fluid sparkles and hisses as if on the • Orton fire. The occult qualities of electrum are of a tell-tale nature.
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a genus of minute forthe musicians were placed upon the stage itself, the whole of the orchestra being reserved for the senators. In modern theaters, etc.: (1) The place where the band, or band and chorus, are placed in
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A Roman grammarian and schoolmaster, best known to us from his having been the teacher of Horace, who gives him the epithet of plagosus, from the severe floggings which his pupils received from him. 2026 Editor's Note: While the text notes his severity, his name became so synonymous with harsh discipline that it remains a proverbial term for a strict pedagogue. His household also produced notable scholars, including his slave Scribonius Aphrodisius , who was later purchased by the Empress Scribonia. (Ed: BR 2026-07-21)
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. See Comenius
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in anatomy, the bony cavity modern concert-rooms, theaters, etc. (2) The collection of instruments of varied compass and quality of tone which constitutes a full band. There are no orchestral scores earlier than the latter of the 16th century, so all statepart part ments as to concerted instrumental music before that time are wholly conjectural.
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WILLIAM QUILorder of the alliance Archidales. It consists of perennial herbs or shrubs, with fibrous, fasciculated, fleshy, or tuberlike roots. All the specie the species are terrestrial in temperate latitudes; in the tropics many are epiphytes, growing on trees. They among his highly- are remarkable for their irregular flowvery " The Challenge " ers, often very beautiful, sometimes all climates Antechamber " fragrant. Found in nearly . " ( 1870), " The Known genera 400; species 3,000. Ditribes: Malaxeæ, Epi- " The Bill of Sale " vided into seven of the Swords " dendreæ, Vandeæ, Ophreæ, Arethuseæ, Eddy " ( 1878), " Hard Neotteæ, and Cypripedeæ.
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an instrument of the organ type devised to reproduce the playing of all the wired instruments of the orchestra. The first orchestrion is claimed as the invention of a native of Karlsruhe, Baden, named Welte, whose son made the instrument more commercially possible by the use of paper rolls as reed pipes. In recent years the orchestrion has been still further developed for use in places of amusement. ORCHIDACEÆ, orchids; the typical
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the typical genus of the order Orchidaceae of the tribe Ohreæ or Orphrydeæ, and the family (1886), Serapiadæ. The tubers are globose, ovoid, or palmate; the lip is spurred; the glands of the stalks of the pollen masses contained in a common little pouch. Chiefly grown in the N. temperate zone. About 80 kinds are known. ORCHELLA, name of several species
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or'kus, in Roman mythology, a name of the god of the lower world. Dis, or Father Dis, is another name given to the same god, although originally Orcus was rather the slayer, or angel of death; while Dis ruled the shades in the abode of the dead. The name Pluto was also in common use among the Romans to designate this god. The name and character of Orcus have descended to a sort of forest elf appearing in folk lore tales. He is a black, hairy monster who delights in making a meal of a good fat child, but is occasionally friendly and helpful to lost children who stumble upon his dwelling. The Italians call him an orco; the Spanish an ogro; the English an ogre.
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