Rectum
in anatomy, the lowest portion of the large intestine extending from the sigmoid flexure of the colon to the anus.
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Single-source entries: R (22)
These 18 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Rectum, Recusant, Red Bank.
Recusant
one who is obstinate in refusing; one who will not conform to general opinion or practice. In English history, one who refused to acknowledge the sovereign's supremacy, or who refused or neglected to attend divine service in the Established Church, and to worship according to its forms and rites. It differed from a non-conformist in that it included popish recusants.
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Red
a color resembling that of arterial blood; the color of that part of the solar spectrum which is farthest from violet; one of the three primary colors. Also a pigment. The most useful red pigments are carmine, vermilion (sulphuret of mercury), chrome-red, scarlet-lake (biniodide of mercury), madder-lake, light red, burnt sienna; these are yellow reds. Venetian red, Indian red (carbonate of oxide of iron), and crimson-lake are blue reds. RED ADMIRAL BUTTERFLY (Vanessa Atalanta), the popular name of a common butterfly. The anterior wings are marked by a broad red band, outside of which are six white markings, while a bluish streak follows the wing margin. The posterior wings are bordered with red, dotted with black spots, and have two bluish markings on the inner angles.
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Red Bank
a town in Monmouth co., N. J., on the Shrewsbury river, and on the Pennsylvania and the Central of New Jersey railroads; 26 miles S. of New York. The town has regular steamboat connection with New York. Here are a public library, high school, National banks, and weekly newspapers. There is a considerable trade in fish and oysters. The town has manufactories of gold-leaf, carriages, and canned goods. Pop. (1910) 7,398; (1920) 9,251.
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Red Bat
in zoology, Atalapha novæboracensis, from the temperate parts of North America. Length about two inches; fur long and silky, generally light russet, tinged with yellow, darker and richer on the back.
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Red Book
an English government book containing the names of all persons in the service of the state.
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Red Brass
The common red brass called red tombac, used for cheap jewelry, is composed of copper 11, zinc 1. Red sheet brass is copper 11, zinc 2. A good red brass for turning: copper 24, zinc 5, lead 8. Red brass for fine castings: copper 24, zinc 5, bismuth 1, the latter to be added just before pouring. See TOMBAC.
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Red Brocket
in zoology, the Cervus rufus or Subulo rufus. It is about 30 inches high, reddish-brown, with simple, unbranched antlers; females hornless. Habitat, the low, moist woods of South America.
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Red Cedar
a species of juniper (Juniperus virginiana) found in North America and the West Indies; the heart wood is of a bright red, smooth, and moderately soft, and is in much request for the outsides of black lead pencils.
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Red Coral
an important genus of sclerobasic corals belonging to the order Alcyonaria. Red coral is highly valued for the manufacture of jewelry, and is obtained from the coasts of Sicily, Italy, and other parts of the Mediterranean.
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Red Currant
a deciduous shrub much cultivated for its fruit, indigenous in the N. portions of Europe and America. The juice of the fruit is used for making jelly, and a wellknown fermented liquor called currant wine. RED DEER. See STAG.
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Red Fish
a species of fish (Sebastes marinus) found on the Atlantic coast of North America, a large red fish caught in considerable numbers for food. A smaller species (S. viviparus) receives the same name, and is called also red perch, rose fish, etc.
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Red Gold
A solution of copper cyanide in potassium cyanide is added to the gold bath in small proportions, until it assumes the color desired.
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Red Gum Tree
one of the Australian Eucalypti (Eucalyptus resinifera), yielding a gum resin valued for medicinal uses.
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Red Hematite
A very important class of iron ores, which vary in color from a deep-bright red to gray. Its steak and powder are a blood-red. Specular iron is a variety of hematite often found in beautifully colored crystals. Clay ironstone consists of hematite mixed with certain proportions of clay and other impurities. The common red chalk is a variety of hematite mixed with clay. It is a valuable iron ore, and yields when pure about 70 per cent of metallic iron. Its powder is used as a coloring material for paints and for polishing metals. The variety called "puddler's-mine," being of a soft, compact nature, is used for making and repairing the bottoms of puddling-furnaces; when used for this purpose it is called "ore" by the puddlers. See ORES; PUDDLING-FURNACE.
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Red Lead
When metallic lead is exposed at a red heat to a current of air, the lead rapidly combines with oxygen, and the oxide so produced fuses. It forms, on cooling, crystalline masses of a greenish-yellow color; this constitutes the litharge of commerce. Red lead is produced when the lead is oxidized so that the oxide formed shall not be fused, and when the metal is all converted into the yellow powder, increasing the heat to incipient redness. Oxygen continues to be absorbed until one third of the metal is converted into peroxide; this is the pure red lead. See LEAD; LITHARGE.
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Red Man
The demon of the tempests. He is supposed to be furious when the rash voyager intrudes on his solitude, and to show his anger in the winds and storms. The French peasants believed that a mysterious little red man appeared to Napoleon to announce coming reverses.
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Red Men
IMPROVED ORDER OF, a social, fraternal, and benevolent secret organization founded on the customs and traditions of the aborigines of the American continent, and the oldest benevolent society in the United States of distinctively American origin and growth . The first authenticated Red Man's Society was organized in Philadelphia, Pa., early in 1772. On March 12, 1834, the "Red Men's Society, Tribe of Maryland," was organized in Baltimore, Md., shortly after (May 20, 1835) forming the Great Council of Maryland, and adopting the present name of the order . The order is composed of subordinate bodies called tribes, officered by a sachem , senior sagamore, junior sagamore, prophet, chief of records rds, keeper of wampum, and minor sub-chiefs. In each State possessing necessary members membership a Great Council is constituted, composed of representatives from the various tribes under its jurisdiction, and officered by similar chiefs to the subordinate tribes, with the prefixed title of great. The Great Council of the United States is the supreme legislative body, and is composed of representatives from each Great Council. There is also a Degree of Pocahontas, to which women relatives of the members may belong. There are now about half a million members of the Order of Red Men, including some 50,000 women in the Pocahontas Degree. Over a million dollars is disbursed annually in benefits .
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