These 11 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Poushkin, Pouter, Powan.
A reservoir formed in sand to receive the molten metal from the ladle, from whence it passes to the mould by whatever system of running-gates is suitable. See BASIN; GATES; etc. Power-hammer is a hammering machine operated by steam, air, or some other mechanical contrivance. See HAMMER.
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or PUSHKIN (pösh'kin), ALEXANDER, a Russian poet; born in Moscow, Russia, June 6, 1799. In 1817 he received a government appointment, but was banished for writing an "Ode to Liberty"; was recalled and restored to office in 1825. A portion of his works have been translated into German, French and English. He wrote "Ruslan and Lindmilla"; "Fountain of Bakhtchisarai"; "Robber Brothers"; "Count Nuhm"; "Poltava"; "The House in Kolomna"; "Boris Godunoff"; "Eugene Onyegin." Among his novels are: "The Captain's Daughter"; and "The Queen of Spades." He died in St. Petersburg, Feb. 10, 1837.
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poos-sang', Nicholas (1593-1665), a noted French painter of historical and landscape pictures. A native of Normandy. He was educated at Paris. The Deluge, painted for Cardinal Richelieu, hangs in the Louvre with many of his best works, "admired rather as a duty than enjoyed by the spectator."
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a variety of fancy pigeon, the chief character of which is its very projecting breast.
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a fish inhabiting Loch Lomond, in Scotland, and also known as the fresh-water herring. POWDER. See GUNPOWDER.
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. See Gunpowder
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A remedy which, by its application to the weapon which had caused a wound, was supposed to cure the hurt. This method was in vogue during the reigns of James I. and Charles I., and its chief exponent was a gentleman named Sir Kenelm Digby. An abstract of his theory, contained in an address given before an assembly of nobles and learned men at Montpellier in France , may be seen in Pettigrew's Superstitions connected with Medicine and Surgery. The following is the recipe for the powder :-" Take Roman vitriol six or eight ounces, beat it very small in a mortar, sift it through a fine sieve when the sun enters Leo; keep it in the heat of the sun by day, and dry by night." This art has been treated by some authors with belief, and by others with unbelieving wit: Wrenfels says:-" If the superstitious person be wounded by any chance, he applies the salve, not to the wound, but, what is more effectual to the weapon by which he received it." 66
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JOHN WESLEY, an American geologist; born in Mount Morris, N. Y., March 24, 1834. He was educated at Oberlin College; was a lieutenantcolonel of artillery at the close of the Civil War; professor of geology in the Illinois Wesleyan University, 1865; explored the cañon of the Colorado river in 1867 and in 1870-1874. He was director of the United States Geological Survey in 1879-1896, and of the United States Bureau of Ethnology after 1879. The special volumes of reports written by Major Powell are: "Exploration of the Color Colorado River in 1869-1872" (1875); "Geology of the Uinta Mountains" (1876); "The Arid Regions of the United States" (1879); "Introduction to Study of Indian Languages" (1880); "Cañons of the Colorado," etc. He died in 1902.
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MAUD, an American violinist; born in 1868 in Peru, Ill., she studied first in Chicago. In 1880 she enmusic tered the Leipzig Conservatory, and later studied at Paris and Berlin. At a concert of the Berlin Philharmonic Society in 1885, she made her début as a violinist, and from that time she was one of the acknowledged masters of the violin. She returned to the United States after having gained recognition abroad and given triumphant receptions everywas where. She excelled all violinists in the number of new compositions written for the violin, and in her ability to successfully introduce novelties into her programs. She died in 1920.
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John Wesley (1834-1902), an American geologist. He was a native of Mount Morris, New York . He was a student at various institutions, including Oberlin. During the Civil War he served in an Illinois regiment, entering as a private and coming out a second lieutenant . Later he was made a professor of geology at Illinois Wesleyan University. He held various educational positions. In 1868 he explored the Grand Canon of the Colorado River . Two years later he was placed in charge of a survey of that wonderful region. When the United States geological survey was established he was made director, a position which he held until 1894. He wrote a number of scientific works. His account of the exploration of the Colorado region is of thrilling interest. His was the first party of white men ever to pass through the canon. He wrote also an introduction to the study of Indian languages. He died at Haven, Maine. See Colorado River
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the product arising from the multiplication of a quantity or number into itself. The first power of any quantity or number is the quantity or number itself; the second power is the square or product of the quantity or number multiplied by itself; the third power is the cube or product of the square of the quantity or number multiplied by the original quantity or number; this again multiplied by the original quantity or number is the fourth power. Thus the powers of a are a (or a¹,), a, a, a, that is a × a (a²), a² Xa (as), etc. The figures 2, 3, 4, etc., denoting the powers of the quantities, are called exponents or indices. Powers which have fractional and negative indices are termed fractional and negative powers respectively. In mechanics: That which produces motion or force; that which communicates motion to bodies, changes the motion of bodies, or prevents the motion of bodies; a mechanical agent or power. Force or effect considered as resulting from the action of a machine. In law: (1) A term employed to denote a reservation to either party in a covenant enabling him to do certain acts regarding the property conveyed. (2) An authority given by one party to another to act for him or to do certain acts, as to make leases, etc. In optics, the magnifying or diminishing capacity of any lens or set of lenses. By ellipsis the word is used for the lens itself.
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