These 13 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Pigeon Pea, Pigment Cell, Pike.
The common form of breaker for pig-iron is a heavy sledge-hammer. Many forms of power breakers are employed at the blast-furnaces which might with considerable profit be introduced in the foundries, where a large quantity of pig iron must be broken for convenience in charging the cupola.
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The best form of scale, where large quantities of different brands of pig iron must be handled proportionately, is one of sufficient capacity to weigh a whole charge at once. This scale would require a section of railway corresponding to the system throughout the yard and to the furnaces; the pig-iron truck can be run on the scales, and the several quantities constituting a charge could be placed thereon, and be at once conveyed in bulk up an inclined plane to the cupola scaffold or on the level to the elevator platform. Pig-iron Tester is a simple form of machine for ascertaining the transverse strength of cast iron, some having an indicator attached by which the elastic limit is measured also. This is an excellent contrivance for obtaining a comparative test of the iron supplied subsequent to charging in the cupola by simply melting a small quantity in the crucible and casting one or more 1-inch-square bars, the strength of which may be discovered by the machine. Density, tendency to chill, and shrinkage may also be observed in the cast bars, and thus by these mechanical means a fair knowledge of the iron may be obtained before taking risks in the cupola. See TESTING-MACHINE.
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the fruit of the leguminous shrub Cajanus indicus, a native of India, but now cultivated in tropical Africa and America. In India the pigeon pea forms a pulse of general use; called also Angola pea and Kongo pea. PIG IRON. See IRON AND STEEL.
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a small cell containing coloring matter, as in the choroid coat of the eye.
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ZEBULON MONTGOMERY, an American military officer; born in Lamberton, N. J., Jan. 5, 1779; was appointed an ensign in his father's regiment in 1799; conducted an expedition sent by the government to trace the Mississippi to its source in 1805; also made explorations in Louisiana Territory, discovering Pike's Peak and reaching the Rio Grande in the course of his travels. In 1813 he was promoted Brigadier- General, and on April 13 of that year while in command of the attack on York (now Toronto), in Upper Canada, was killed.
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a military weapon, consisting of a narrow, elongated lance-head fixed to a pole or a simple spike of metal. The end of the staff had also a spike for insertion in the ground, thus allowing a musketeer to keep off the approach of cavalry while attending to his other arms. It is now superseded by the bayonet. Also, any individual of the genus Esox, especially Esox lucius, the common pike. It is one of the larger fresh-water fishes, sometimes attaining a length of five or six feet, and much esteemed for food. Pikes are extremely voracious, and small fish and frogs form their staple food. They commence to spawn at three years old; the ova are deposited in March, and the spawning season lasts about three months. The pike are migrants, and have been known to travel overland. The head and back are olive-brown, sides paler, belly silvery white; body mottled with roundish spots, which sometimes form cross bars on tail. The English name has reference to the elongated form of the fish, or the shape of its snout.
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Lucioperca, a genus of fishes closely allied to the perch, but showing a resemblance to the pike in its elongated body and head. Like the pike, it is a dangerous enemy to other freshwater fishes, but the flavor of its flesh is excellent. In Europe it occurs in two species. It also occurs in the fresh PIKE PERCH waters of North America, such as the Great Lakes, the Upper Mississippi, and the Ohio.
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a square column, generally attached to a wall, as an ornamental support to an arch, etc., and seldom projecting more than one-fourth or onethird of its breadth from the wall.
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PONTIUS, a Roman ruler, who became governor of Judæa, A. D. 26. He commanded in that country 10 years. The Jews brought Jesus Christ before Pilate, who, perceiving that envy and malice occasioned their charges, would have scourged the prisoner and dismissed him, but being threatened with the wrath of Cæsar, Pilate delivered Jesus, whom he pronounced innocent, to be crucified. He is said to have subsequently treated the Samaritans with great cruelty, for which he was recalled by Tiberius, and banished to Gaul, where he slew himself, A. D. 37 or 38.
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MOUNT, an isolated mountain at the W. end of the Lake of Lucerne, rising opposite the Rigi. The lower half is clothed with wood and meadow, the upper portion is a mass of bare and jagged peaks, rising in the Tomlishorn to 6,998 feet. Below the summit lies Lake Pilatus. Since 1889 there has been a tooth-and-rack railway from Alpnach to the top, whence there is a splendid view of the Bernese Alps. In 1891 a steel tower was undertaken, to be 300 feet in diameter at its base and 840 feet high, and so pierce any enveloping cloud.
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Clupea pilchardus, an found on the coast important food fish, h. of Northwestern Europe. Eu It abounds also on the coast of Portugal and in the Mediterranean. It is thicker and a smaller fish than the herring; the upper part of the body is bluish-green, belly and sides silverywhite.
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a river in South Amer- , ica which rises in Bolivia, on the E. declivities of the Andes, and falls into the Paraguay, near Asuncion, after forming ing the boundary between Paraguay and the Argentine Republic. Its entire length is between 1,500 and 1,600 miles.
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a beam or timber driven into treacherous ground to form a foundation for a structure, or to form part of a wall, as of a cofferdam or quay. In heraldry, one of the lesser ordinaries, triangular in form and issuing from the chief with the point downward. When borne plain it should contain one-third of the chief in breadth, and if charged two-thirds.
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