These 10 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Perching, Perchloric Acid, Percussion.
in the manufacture of textiles, the operation of examining woolen fabrics for imperfections. This work is done when the web is taken from the loom. The length of cloth is stretched in a frame and the percher examines it inch by inch, using a magnifying glass for the better grades of cloth. All knots and burs are carefully removed. If any holes are found they are neatly darned. The latter process is called burling.
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(CIHO4) a colorless liquid obtained by distilling potassium perchlorate with sulphuric acid. When brought in contact with organic substances, it explodes with great violence.
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a method of physical examination, performed by gently striking some part of the body-especially the chest or the abdomen-with the fingers or an instrument, to ascertain its healthy or diseased condition. Also in music, an ingenious contrivance whereby a hammer strikes the tongue of a reed and sets it (in motion simultaneously with the admission of air from the wind chest, thus securing the rapid speech of the reed. It is commonly used in cabinet organs, but has also been applied to the largest reeds of a church organ .
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THOMAS, an born in Bridgenorth, Shropshire, April English poet; 13, 1728 or 1729; was a minister of the English Church; was made dean of Carlisle in 1778 , and bishop of Dromore in 1782. He made a collection of old popular ballads the title "Reliques of Ancient English and songs, published under Poetry" (1765 ), which ultimately transformed English poetic style and matter. He wrote the ballad "The Hermit of Warkworth," and the song "O Nanny, Wilt Thou Gang wi' Me?" He died in Dromore, Ireland, Sept. 30, 1811.
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a collection of extraordinary popularity, published in monthly parts (1820-1823) by "Sholto and Reuben Percy, Brothers of the Benedictine Monastery of Mount Benger." Their real names were Thomas Byerley (died 1826), first editor of the "Mirror," and Joseph Clinton Robertson (died 1852), projector and editor of the "Mechanics Magazine"; the work owed its name to the Percy coffee house in Rathbone Place, their usual place of meeting during its progress. An edition was prepared by John Timbs (1868), and another enlarged edition in 1887. obtain sula in the
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Thomas (1729-1811), an English poet and bishop. He was born at Bridgenorth, and was educated at Oxford. He became Bishop of Dromore, Ireland, in 1782. His most important literary work was the edition of Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, published in 1765. This is a collection of old ballads, many of which had existed up to this time only in manuscript and others printed on loose sheets. The work of Bishop Percy was done carefully and systematically. Some of the ballads and fragments he retouched or filled out, but always with taste and judgment. He discovered that the oldest among these ballads were traceable readily to the region of border warfare between England and Scotland. The influence of Bishop Percy's collection can hardly be overestimated, awakening as it did an enthusiasm for the natural and vigorous in literature as opposed to the artificial. It gave direction also to the genius of several illustrious writers, among them, Sir Walter Scott, who is believed to have obtained from these ballads the inspiration and sentiment that led to his great poems and novels. The first time I could scrape a few shillings together--which were not common occurrences with me--I bought unto myself a copy of these beloved volumes: nor do I believe I ever read a book half so frequently, or with half the enthusiasm.--Scott, in Lockhart's Life.
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ISTHMUS OF, Russia, connecting the peninsula of the Crimea with the mainland of European Russia. In the N. of the isthmus is the small town of Perekop. PÉREZ GALDÓS, BENITO, a Spanish novelist. He was born in the Canary Islands in 1845, and studied law at Madrid, but followed literature as a He was a member of the Cortes career. for a time, and while there gave evidence of the revolutionary ideals that showed in his historical romances. He wrote voluminously, and completed 20 wrote voluminouslyis of "Episodios " Nacionales" Nacionale series by 1883. His best known work is "Doña Perfecta" which appeared in 1876. Others are "Gloria"; "La Familia de León Roch"; "Marianela"; "El Amigo Manso"; "El Doctor Centeno"; "Fortunata y Jacinta"; "Miau"; "Angel Guerra"; "Nazarin"; "Misericordia." He also wrote several plays. He died in 1920, statues having been erected to him in his lifetime, and national subscriptions being gathered to honor him.
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in ecclesiastical and Church history, one who believes in the possibility of living without sin; a perfectibilist. Any member of an American sect of Antinomian Communists, which was founded about 1854, by John Humphrey Noyes, who had been an Independent minister at Yale College. He professed to have discovered from the writings of St. Paul that all Christian sects were in spiritual darkness, and determined to establish a church of his own. He founded a community at Oneida, N. Y., and others subsequently at Wallingford, New Haven, and New York, in order to carry out what he asserted to be a divinely revealed system of society, based on the following principles: (1) Reconciliation with God; (2) salvation from sin; (3) brotherhood of man and woman; and (4) community of labor, and of its fruits. They are called also Bible Communists. All possessions of the sect are held in common.
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substances emitting an agreeable odor, and used about the person, the dress, or the dwelling, having also some value as disinfectants. Perfumes of various sorts have been held in high estimation from the most ancient times. The Egyptians, Hebrews, Phœnicians, Assyrians, and Persians are known to have made great use of them, as did also the Greeks and Romans. Perfumes are partly of animal but chiefly of vegetable origin. They may be divided into two classes, crude and prepared. The former consist of such animal perfumes as musk, civet, ambergris, and such vegetable perfumes as are obtained the of essential oils. At the present time the manufacture of perfumes is chiefly carried on in Paris and London, and in various towns near the Mediterranean, especially in the S. of France. Certain districts are famous for certain productions; as Cannes for its perfumes of the rose, tuberose, cassia, jasmine; Nîmes for thyme, rosemary, and lavender; Nice for the violet and mignonette. England claims the superiority for her lavender, which is cultivated on a large scale at Mitcham in Surrey.
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