Each of these 19 subjects appears in only one of the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. None is long enough to carry a page by itself, so they are gathered here by letter. Anything that grows moves out to a page of its own.
the North American name of Camassia esculenta, a plant of the lily family with an edible bulb. These bulbs are much eaten by the Indians, and are prepared by baking in a hole dug in the ground, then pounding and drying them into cakes for future use.
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in grammar and prosody, the measure of a syllable or the time in which it is pronounced; the metrical value of syllables as regards length or weight in their pronunciation. In logic, extent to which the predicate in a proposition is asserted of the subject. In mathematics, anything that can be increased, diminished, and measured.
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Bernard (1819-1899), a famous bookseller. He was born in a village of Prussian Saxony. He learned the bookseller's business with a firm in Berlin and established himself in London in 1846. In the following year he sent out his first list--a single page--of old books. His latest Catalog of Old Books and Manuscripts was issued in 1887-8 in seven volumes. He was a noted dealer in rare books, a well known figure at book auctions. His knowledge of binding and editions was remarkable. He paid and exacted fabulous prices for rare publications. The leading librarians, booklovers, collectors, and even royalty, were his patrons.
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FRANCIS, an English poet; born near Rumford , England, in in 1592; was educated at Cambridge, and entered at Lincoln's Inn. In 1621 went to Dublin, where he became under-secretary to Archbishop Ussher. He was driven from Ireland, with the loss of his wappointed chronologer to the city and property, by the rebellion of 1641, London. At the commencement of civil wars he wrote a work entitled the "Loyal Convert," which gave offense to the Parliament. Of the works of Quarles, in prose and verse, the most celebrated is his "Emblems," a set of Among designs illustrated by verses. are "Divine Poems," and his poems "Argalus and Parthenia ." His "Enchiridion" is a collection of brief essays and aphorisms. He died Sept. 8, 1644 .
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GULF OF, in the Adriatic Sea, between Istria and the Croatian coast, 15 miles in length and breadth. It is nearly inclosed to the leeward by the islands of Cherso and Veglia, and communicates with the Adriatic by three channels.
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that part of a ship's side which lies toward the stern , or which is comprehended between the aft-most end of the main chains and the sides of the stern. In heraldry, one of the divisions of a shield, when it is divided into four portions by horizontal and perpendicular lines meeting in the fesse point.
a measure equal to the fourth part of a hundredweight-i. e., to 28 pounds avoirdupois . As a measure of capacity, for measuring grain, etc., a quarter contains eight bushels.
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in matters influenced by United States statutes quarter days are the 1st of January, April, July, and October. In the relation between landlord and tenant in some of the States they are the 1st of May, August, November, and February, respectively. In England it is the day which begins each quarter of the year. They are now Lady day (March 25), Midsummer day (June 24), Michaelmas day (September 29), and Christmas day ( December 25).
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in nautical language, a deck raised above the waist and extending from the stern to the mainmast.
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in England, a general court of criminal jurisdiction held in every county once in each quarter of a year before two or more justices of the peace, and before the recorder in boroughs. Its jurisdiction is confined to the smaller felonies and misdemeanors against the public, and certain matters rather of a civil than a criminal nature. In Scotland, a court held by the justices of the peace four times a year at the county towns. These courts have the power of reversing the sentences pronounced at the special and petty ses-- sions, when the sentence is of a nature subject to review.
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a term sometimes used to designate the fourth of a peck, or of a stone; as the quartern loaf . In liquid measure it is the fourth part of a pint.
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a stout staff used as a weapon of offense or defense. It was generally about 6½ feet long, and loaded with iron at each end.
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name of the size of a book in which a sheet makes four leaves. Frequently abbreviated to 4to. Also a book formed by folding a sheet twice, making four leaves, eight pages. The term, by modern usage, refers to a book of nearly square form.
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in mineralogy, a rhombohedral or hexagonal mineral, crystallizing mostly in hexagonal prisms with pyramidal terminations. Quartz is abundantly distributed, is an essential constituent of many rocks, notably granite, gneiss, various schists, and constitutes the larger part of mineral veins. Many of its varieties are largely employed in jewelry.
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the name applied to all rocks consisting essentially of massive quartz.
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A sedimentary sandstone which by metamorphic action has been converted into a hard rock possessing a highly refractory nature, for which reason it was formerly employed for constructing blast-furnace hearths, etc. See SAND-STONE.
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in the Roman calendar, a term applied to the first Sunday after Easter, from the opening words of the introit for that day, "quasi modo geniti infantes" as (infants) lately (born).
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in botany the typical genus of the order Simarubaceæ. Q. Q. amara is a tree cultivated in the West Indies and the parts adjacent. In pathology, the Surinam quassia is Q. amara; Jamaica quassia, the wood of Picræna excelsa. It comes to this country in logs or billets, and is retailed as chips or raspings. It is given as an extract, an infusion, or a tincture, and acts as a pure bitter and stomachic, and as an antiperiodic.
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or POST-TERTI- ARY, the fourth great division of the fossiliferous strata, which embraces the Pleistocene or Glacial and Post-glacial and Recent systems.
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in mathematics, the metrographic relation existing between any two right ight lines, having definite lengths and directions in space, depending on four irreducible geometrical elements. 396 QUATREMÈRE DE QUINCY
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