Each of these 16 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.
a name common to a variety of pigments, rather than designating an individual color, and comprehending Indian red, light red, Venetian red, scarlet ocher, Indian ocher, reddle, bole, and other oxides of iron. As a mineral it designates a soft earthy variety of hæmatite.
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a species of pine (Pinus rubra), also called Norway pine. Its wood is very resinous and durable, and is much used in house and shipbuilding. It produces turpentine, tar, pitch, resin, and lampblack.
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rain tinged red by cobalt chloride derived from meteoric dust.
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a genus of deciduous shrubs of the natural order Rhamnacea. The common red root of North America (C. americanus), which abounds from Canada to Florida, is a shrub of two to four feet high, with beautiful thyrsi of numerous small white flowers. It is sometimes called New Jersey tea, an infusion of its leaves being sometimes used as tea. It serves also as an astringent, and for dyeing wool of a cinnamon color. A Mexican species has blue flowers, and a California kind is used for evergreen hedges.
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Sesquioxide of iron, used for polishing brass and steel by mixing with oil. Crocus, rouge and clinker are various grades of red stuff.
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the hæmaturia in cattle, occurring occasionally in sheep. It is of two kinds: (1) Acute, ushered in by a discharge of bloody urine, generally preceded by dysentery, suddenly changing to obstinate costiveness immediately before the red water appears. There is laborious breathing, with every indication of fever. The disease rapidly runs its course, and the beast soon succumbs. (2) Chronic, the more prevalent form. The urine is brown or yellowishyello brown, the beast feeds fairly, but ruminates slowly, and after a few days a natural diarrhœa carries off the evil symptoms. Youatt considers these two fornia. forms essentially different maladies; the first, inflammation of the kidney; the second, inflammation of, or altered secretion from the liver.
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in ornithology, Ibidorhynchus struthersi, found only in the Himalaya Mountains and the hills of central Asia.
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or RUDD, a fish belonging to the same genus as roach, chub, and minnow. It is common in lakes, slow rivers, and fens, in many parts of Europe and in England.
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in fortifications, work having two faces forming a salient angle in the direction from which an attack may be expected. It is open at the gorge. A double redan has a re-entering angle for mutual defense. The redan is simplest field work, and is used for de fending the avenues of approach to a village, bridge, or defile. În front of another field work, it is called a fiéche. When flanks are added to the faces, the work becomes a detached bastion or lunette.
THE, one of the strongest Russian fortifications on the S. side of Sebastopol. It was unsuccessfully assaulted by the English on June 5 and Sept. 8, 1855. The retirement of the Russians to the N. side left, on the latter date, the place in the hands of the allies.
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the popular name of several birds in the United States, as the Tanagra æstiva or summer red bird, the Tanagra rubra, and the Baltimore oriole or hang nest.
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. See Robin
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one of the names of an order of monks devoted to the redemption of Christian captives from are more frequently slavery. They called Trinitarians.
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members of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, founded by St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori (1696-1787), at Scala, in 1732. The members take the three simple, but perpetual, vows, and a fourth, of perseverance in the Institute till death. Their principal object is the preaching of missions and retreats to all classes of Roman Catholics, giving preference to the ignorant and neglected. Their dress is a black serge cossack, with cloth girdle and rosary beads.
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the valley of the river Reed in Northumberland, England; extending almost from the Scottish border in a S. E. direction for over 16 miles, till it opens up into the valley of the Tyne, the river joining the North Tyne at Reedsmcuth. The river springs out of the Cheviot Hills, which lie athwart the head of the dale, and down its course from Carter Toll on the border lay one of the chief roads into England. Watling Street itself traverses its middle and upper part. Near the S. end of Redesdale is the famous field of Otterburn. Redesdale gave from 1877 the title of earl to John Thomas Freeman Mitford (1805-1886), who was son of the exspeaker, John Mitford (died 1830), first Baron Redesdale.
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ISAAC FLETCHER, an American jurist; juris born in Wethersfield, Wethersfie Vt., April 10, 1804; was graduated at Dartmouth College in 1825; and practiced his profession in Windsor and Derby, Vt. In 1835, he was made judge of the Supreme Court of Vermont, and in 1852 became chief-justice, retiring from the bench in 1860. He was Professor of Jurisprudence at Dartmouth College in 1857-1861; removed to Boston in the latter year; and in 1867-1869 was special counsel for the United States in Europe, conducting numerous important legal matters in England and France. He was the author of "A Practical Treatise on the Law of Railways" (1857); "A Practical Treatise on Civil Pleading and Practice, with Forms" (with William A. Herrick, 1868); "The Law of Carriers and Bailments" (1869); etc. He died in Charlestown, Mass., March 23, 1876.
WILLIAM C., an American statesman and manufacturer. Born in 1858, as a boy he entered the J. H. Williams Co. mill in Brooklyn and twenty years later became president of the firm. A Democrat in politics, he served as commissioner of public works under Seth Low in New York in 1902 and 1903, and in 1910 was elected to the House of Representatives. As a Democrat he was an opponent of high tariff and made several important speeches upon the subject. President Wilson appointed him Secretary of Commerce in 1913, a position which be resigned in 1919 because of ill health.
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RICHARD, an English painter; born in London, April 30, 1804; in 1826 was admitted a student of the Academy, and was elected an A. R. A. in 1840, and R. A. in 1851. In 1857 was appointed Inspector-General of Art Schools, which office, with that of Surveyor of the Royal Pictures, he resigned in 1880, being then created a C. B. From 1825 to 1882 he contributed 145 pictures to the Academy, besides 40 sent elsewhere. He wrote, with his brother, "A Century of English Painters" (1866). He died Dec. 14, 1888.
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