These 11 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Pouched Mouse, Pouched Rat, Poughkeepsie.
Dipodomys, a genus of small, lean, long-tailed, agile rodents, with cheek-pouches. The best known species is D. philippii, from the waste regions of California, where it seems to find a sparse diet of seeds and roots, and in the dry season no drink but dew.
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Pseudostoma or Geomys, a genus of plump, short-tailed, hamster-like rodents, with cheek pouches which open externally and are used as receptacles for food. One of the best known species is P. or G. bursarius, sometimes called "gopher." Like the other species it is a native of North America, and inhabits the territory E. of the Rocky Mountains and W. of the Mississippi. It is a burrower like the mole, active in warm weather, hibernatng in cold, sluggish above ground. ing Being voracious gnawers, the pouched rats do much damage to the roots of trees and crops.
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a city and countyseat of Dutchess co., N. Y.; on the Hudson river, and the Central New England, and the New York Central and Hudson River railroads; 75 miles N. of New York. It has daily steamboat connection with New York and Albany. The Hudson is here crossed by a celebrated cantilever bridge which was completed in 1889 at a cost of nearly $5,000,000. It is 7,100 feet long, has three cantilevers, and rests on six massive piers. Poughkeepsie is the seat of VASSAR COLLEGE (q. v.). Here are Riverview Military Academy, and other private educational institutions, parks, public library, orphan asylum, Home for Old Men, Home for Old Women, General Hos pital, Hudson River Hospital for the Insane, court house, Home for the Friendless less,, National and private banks, electric lights and street railroads, and daily and weekly periodicals. Poughkeepsie has manufactories of iron, machinery, boots and shoes, leather, carpets, glass, shirts, silk goods, clothing, flour, earthenware, drugs, etc. The city was settled by the Dutch in 1698; during the Revolution it was the capital of New York. The State convention to ratify the National Constitution met here in 1788. Pop. (1910) 27,936; (1920) 35,000.
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a genus of Cephalopoda, of the order Dibranchiata, having eight feet or arms, nearly equal, united at the base by a membrane, and very long in proporsition to the body. The arms are used for. swimming in water, creeping on land, and seizing prey. Poulpes swim by contractions of the muscular web of the body, which extends upon the arms. Like other cephalopods, when alarmed or annoyed, they discharge an inky fluid. manufacturer; born in 1843, in Denmark, and at the age of 21 came to the United States as an architect and builder in charge of a department in the New York Architectural Iron Works. In 1897 he entered business for himself, his firm being incorporated as the Hecla Architectural Iron Works. He interested himself in providing free technical instruction for his employees and also gave in 1910 the sum of $100,000 to 1 3 1. Light Brahma 2. Buff Orpington maintain an exchange of professorships between the United States and Scandinavian countries. His fortune of $500,000 was left at his death to the cause of education.
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NIELS, an American parts of the body, or the like; a cataplasm.
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a soft composition, as of bread, meal, bran, or a mucilaginous substance, to be applied to sores, inflamed
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a fine powder, such as pounded gums and arach and cuttlefish bonus, used to dry up the ink on a fresh written manuscript; now superseded in the United States by blotting paper, except in the case of parchment. The word is also applied to charcoal dust inclosed in some open stuff, as muslin, etc., to be passed over holes pricked in the work, to mark the lines or designs of a paper underneath. It is used to some extent by embroiderers to transfer patterns upon their stuff; also by fresco painters, sometimes by engravers, and in varnishing.
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The pound is a standard weight, and consists of 16 ounces avoirdupois, or 12 ounces Troy. The avoirdupois pound weighs 7000 Troy grains, and the Troy pound 5760 grains.
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ROSCOE, American legal scholar and educator, was born at Lincoln, Nebraska, Oct. 27, 1870. He was graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1888 and studied law for two years at the Harvard Law School, being admitted to the bar in 1890. In 1899 he became professor of law in the University of Nebraska and was afterward professor of law successively at Northwestern University, the University of Chicago, and the Harvard Law School, of which institution he was chosen dean in 1916. He has written authoritative books on Roman and modern law, and in 1921 was nominated by several foreign countries for one of the judgeships on the Court of International Justice. PROHIBITION. (See UNITED STATES, 1921: ANTI-BEER ACT.) (See DIRECTION FINDER.)
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a unit of weight. Pounds are of different kinds, as pounds Troy (containing 12 ounces), pounds avoirdupois (containing 16 ounces), etc. A cubic inch of distilled water, at 62° F., the barometer being 30 inches, weighs 252.458 Troy grains, and the Troy pound is equal to 5,760 of these grains. The avoirdupois pound is equal to 7,000 Troy grains, so that the Troy pound is to the avoirdupois as 144 to 175. Pound is also the principal English coin of account, and corresponding to the "coin of circulation" called a sovereign, of the value of about $4.80. It is divided into 20 shillings or 240 pence, and weighs 123.27447 Troy grains (7.98805 grammes), as determined by the British Mint regulation, in virtue of which a mass of gold weighing 40 pounds Troy is coined into 1,869 sovereigns. The name is derived from the fact that in the time of the Conqueror, one Tower pound of silver was coined into 240 silver pence; Tower pennyweight was whence the really and truly the weight of a penny. The word is also applied to an inclo inclosure, erected by authority, in which cattle or other beasts found straying are impounded or confined.
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a name sometimes used for the absolute foot pound second unit of force, which will produce in one pound a velocity of one foot per second, after acting for one second.
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