These 12 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Rape, Rape, Rape Cake.
in law, carnal knowledge of a woman by force against her will. Consent obtained by duress or threats of murder is nugatory. Rape is a felony punishable with imprisonment for life, or for a term of years, or with death.
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two species of Brassica. Summer rape is B. campestris, and winter rape B. napus. Sir J. Hooker regards the latter as a sub-species of the former, and the turnip as another subspecies. B. campestris proper has the root tuberous, the radical leaves hispid. It is the Swedish turnip. B. napus, the rape properly so called, has the root fusiform, and the leaves all glabrous and glaucous. It is cultivated as a salad plant, and is sometimes also used in lieu of greens. Sometimes it is called also cole seed.
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a hard cake formed by pressure of the seeds and husks of rape after the oil has been expressed. It is used for feeding cattle and sheep, and also has a high reputation as a rich manure.
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In the prophecy of Enoch it is said that: Raphael presides over the spirits of men." In the Jewish rabbinical legend of the angelic hierarchies Raphael is the medium through which the power of Tsebaoth, or the Lord of hosts, passes into the sphere of the sun, giving motion, heat and brightness to it.
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in botany, the vascular cord communicating between the nucleus of an ovule and the placenta, when the base of the former is removed from the base of the ovulum.
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needle-shaped transparent bodies, lying either singly or in bundles among the tissue of plants; any Tystalline formation in vegetable cell former commonly consist of oxalate The of lime.
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a light, highly-tempered, edgeless, and finely-pointed weapon of the sword kind used for thrusting. It is about three feet in length, and was long a favorite weapon for duels. Its use now, however, is restricted to occa sions of state ceremonial.
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GEORGE, a German-American socialist, founder of the sect of Harmonists; born in Württemberg, in 1770. After an attempt to restore the Church of New Testament days in Germany, he emigrated with his followers to western Pennsylvania in 1803. There he established a settlement which he named Harmony (whence the early title of the sect, Harmonists or Harmonites). In 1815 the community removed to removed to Indiana, and founded New Harmony; but this was sold in 1824 to Robert Owen, and Rapp and his followers returned to Pennsylvania, where they built Economy, a village on the right bank of the Ohio, 15 miles N. W. of Pittsburgh, and engaged in farming. Impressed with the certainty of the speedy second coming of Christ absorbing aim was to amass wealth, to be placed then at the Lord's disposal. To this end he and his followers practiced a rigid economy, and lived a life of toil and self-denial, in which celibacy formed a part; and with the same object all things were held in common. As the years passed the com- . Its numbers, nunity became wealthy however, have not increased, and in 1890 Economy, did not exceed 70. He died in Pa., Aug. 7, 1847.
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JEAN, COUNT, a French military officer; born in Colmar, Haut-Rhin, France, April 27, 1772. He was intended for the Church, but his taste for a military life led him to enroll himself (1788) in the mounted "chasseurs" of the French army. Rapp distinguished himself by dashing gallantry in in Germany and Egypt, and on the death of Desaix at Marengo he became aide-decamp to Napoleon. His brilliant charge at Austerlitz on the Russian Imperial Guard was rewarded with the grade of general of divison (1805). For his services at Lobau he was named a count of the empire (1809). He opposed the Russian expedition, but accompanied the emperor throughout the whole of it. His obstinate defense of Danzig for nearly a year against a powerful Russian army gained for him greater renown, and his chivalrous and considerate treatment of the unfortunate inhabitants during the siege was warmly appreciated by them. The Russians, contrary to the articles of capitulation, tulation, sent sent Rapp Rapp and his garrison did not reprisoners to Russia, and he turn to France till July, 1814. On reaching Paris he was well received by Louis XVIII.; but in 1815 he went over to his old master, and was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Army of the Rhine, and peer of France. After Waterloo Rapp again submitted to Louis. Re-created a peer of France (1819), he held various offices about the court, and died in Baden, Nov. 18, 1821.
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a river of Virginia, rising in the Blue Ridge of the Allegheny Mountains, receiving the Rapidan (above this point it is sometimes called the North Fork), and flowing about 125 miles S. E. to Chesapeake Bay. It is tidal and navigable to Fred ericksburg. The Rappahannock and the Rapidan were the scenes of some of the most sanguinary battles of the Civil War, at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and the Wilderness.
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a strong kind of snuff of either a black or brown color; it is made from the darker and ranker kinds of tobacco leaves.
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An iron plate inserted in a pattern at such places as it may be desired to effect a jarring or loosening of the same. Ordinarily these plates are sunk down even with the surface, and fastened with common wood screws. For light patterns easy to loosen these answer well enough; but in larger ones it becomes necessary to make the plates strong, with more surface, and secure them by bolts to a similar one on the opposite side of the pattern. By this means the nuts will always bring both plates close to the pattern, and thus obviate the unpleasantness which is sure to follow if the common screw-plates are used. Another advantage the bolted plates offer is that the upper plate may have a threaded hole in which to insert an iron screw for drawing out the pattern. These are often called screw-plates. They are much better than driving spikes into the pattern. See LOOSENING-BAR.
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