These 19 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Pinkie, Pinkney, Pinkroot.
a battle fought on Sept. 10, Musselburgh in Midlothian, between 14,000 English under Somerset and twice that of Scotch. The latter were utdefeated, more than 10,000, it is killed on the field and in the while the English loss was
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WILLIAM, an American ; born in Annapolis, Md., , 1764; was admitted to the bar in 1786; was a member of the Legislature of his State that ratified the Constitution of the United States. In 1796 Washington appointed him a commissioner to determine the claims of American merchants to compensation for losses and damages caused by the English government. In 1806 he was sent with James Monroe to treat with the English government regarding violations of the rights of neutrals and was resident minister in London in 1807- 1811, when President Madison appointed him attorney - general of the United States. In 1816 he was appointed minister to Russia and special envoy to Naples. In 1820 he was elected to the United States Senate. He died in Washington, D. C., Feb. 25, 1822.
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Spigelia marilandica, a medicinal herb found in the United States.
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. See Carnations
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a genus of Aviculidæ; shell sometimes two feet long, equivalve; umbones anterior, posterior side truncated and gaping; hinge, edentulous; animal with a doubly fringed mantle and an elongated grooved foot; shell attached by a strong byssus spun by the animal; sometimes mixed with silk and woven into gloves; known species, recent, 30 from the United States, Great Britain, the Mediterranean, Australia, etc.
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a man-of-war's boat, next in size to the launch; it is carvel built, usually from 28 to 32 feet long, has a beam .29 to 25 of its length, and is rowed by six or eight oars. Also, a small schooner-rigged vessel provided with oars or sweeps.
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an ornament placed on the top of a buttress as a termination to an angle or gable of a house, church, or tower; any lesser structure of any form rising above the roof of a bui ding, or capping and terminating the higher parts of other buildings or of buttresses. Pinnacles are frequently decorated, and have the shafts formed into to niches, paneled er plain.
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a botanical term meaning divided into several or many smaller leaves or leaflets; having simple leaflets arranged on both sides of a common petiole. In zoölogy, a term meaning shaped like a feather; having lateral processes. Also, provided with fins.
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known also as the prairie hen, or prairie chicken. The male is remarkable as possessing two erectile tufts in the nape, and an air bladder (connected with the windpipe, and capable of inflation) on each side of the neck, in color and shape re- Vol. VII-Cyc sembling small oranges; general plumage brown, mottled with a darker shade; habitat, prairies of the Mississippi valley, from Louisiana N.
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or PINNIPEDIA, a section of the carnivorous order of mammals, in which the fore and hind limbs are short, and are expanded into broad webbed swimming paddles. The section comprises the seals and walruses. PE-
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a town of west Russia, standing in the midst of what were formerly vast marshes ( in large part drained since 1875), on a branch of the Pripet, 98 miles E. of Brest-Litovsk; it manufactures leather, and has a large transit trade. Pop. about 40,000. It was captured in 1915 by the Germans.
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a measure of capacity used both for dry and liquid measures. It contains 34.65925 cubic inches, or the eighth part of a gallon. In medicine it is equivalent to 12 ounces.
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a species of Quer quedula; Q. acuta, or Dafila caudacuta, having the upper parts and flanks ash, PINTAIL DUCK with narrow stripes of black; under parts white; head umber-brown; tail pointed. It inhabits the N. of Europe and America. (pin-tû-rikyō) PINTURICCHIO ("the little painter"), an Italian painter of the Umbrian school, whose real name was Bernardino di Betto; born in Perugia, Italy, in 1454. At Rome he was engaged on the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel, being at this time under the influence of Perugino. His chief work was a series of mural paintings illustrating the life of Pope Pius II. in the cathedral library at Siena. There are also fine frescoes by him in the Buffalini Chapel of the Church St. Maria in Araceli, Rome. He left many exquisite altar pieces; he never painted in oil. He died in Siena, Italy, Sept. 11, 1513.
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ALONZO, VINCENTE, YANEZ and MARTIN (brothers), Spanish navigators, who had commands in Columbus' first voyage, and by whose exertions mainly it was that a sufficient number of men were induced to risk their lives on this perilous enterprise. Vincente Yañez was the more distinguished of the brothers; he made several voyages, on the most important of which he sailed in December, 1499, and discovered Brazil and the river Amazon, three months before Cabral took possession of South America for the crown of Portugal.
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the notorious roof cells (sotto piombi, "under the leads") of the state prisons of Venice, in which Casanova and many other notable prisoners were confined.
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one of a body of soldiers equipped with pickax, spade, etc., whose duty it is to clear and repair roads, bridges, etc. Also, one who goes before to prepare or clear the way, or remove obstructions for another, especially in the settlement of a new region.
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a town of Russian Poland, 87 miles S. W. of Warsaw. Cotton and wool spinning is largely prosecuted. It is one of the oldest Polish towns; here in the 15th and 16th centuries diets were held and the kings elected. Pop. about 45,000. The place was captured by the Germans in 1915.
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a disease in fowls, consisting in a secretion of thick mucus from the tongue and lining membranes of the mouth, by which the nostrils are stuffed and clogged.
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a genus of Batrachian reptiles, closely allied to the common toad, but distinguished by the body being horizontally flattened, the head large and triangular, tongue wanting, tympanum concealed beneath the skin, the eyes small, placed near the margin of the upper jaw. The best known species is the Surinam toad, P. Surinamensis, which is considerably larger than the common toad. The pipa lays its eggs in the water, after which they are collected water, by the male, and placed on the back of the female, the skin enlarging in such a manner as to inclose the eggs in cells; here the development goes on till the young come forth as perfectly formed toads.
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