These 12 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Revels, Revenue, Revenue Cutter.
MASTER OF THE, an English officer in former times appointed to superintend the revels or amusements, consisting of dancing, masking, etc., in the courts of princes, the inns of court, and noblemen's houses, during the 12 Christmas holidays. He was a court official from the time of Henry VIII. to that of George III.
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the income of a nation derived from taxes, duties, and other sources, for public uses. See articles on the different countries.
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a small armed steam vessel, designed for the prevention of smuggling; so called from the fact that originally the vessel was of the cutter-yacht type.
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a right or hope to future possession or enjoyment; right of succession; succession. Also a reversionary or deferred annuity. i. e., an annuity which does not begin to be paid at once, but at a certain future day. In biology, the tendency of an animal or a plant to revert to long-lost characters. Darwin contends that it is by no means so potent as is generally believed. It is easy to breed cart or race-horses, long and short-horned cattle, and esculent vegetables without their reverting to the characters of the aboriginal stock. He also believes that reversionary and analogous characters can be easily confounded. In law, the returning of an estate to the grantor or his heirs after a particular estate is ended. An estate in reversion is the residue of an estate left in the grantor, to commence in possession after the determination of some particular estate granted out by him. The term is sometimes improperly extended to any future estate in reversion or remainder. Reversion of series, in mathematics, when one quantity is expressed in terms of another, by means of a series, the operation of finding the value of the second in terms of the first, by means of a series, is called the reversion of the series.
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in fortification, a facing to a wall or bank, as of a scarp REVERE, PAUL, an American pa-or parapet. The material depends upon the character of the work. In permanent works it is usually of masonry; in field works it may be of sods, gabions, timber, hurdles, rails, or stones. In civil engineering, a retaining or breast wall at the foot or on the face of a slope.
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a revised edition of the Authorized Version of the Bible. The resolution to undertake it was come to by the Convocation of Canterbury in February and May, 1870, and various members were nominated to carry out the work. Co-operation was sought from scholars in the other churches and from an American committee. A better text was constructed, manuscripts being used which had been Version discovered since ince the Authorized had been made. Revision, not retranslation, was aimed at, as few alterations as possible being introduced, and these only if adopted by the votes of twothirds of the translators. Poetry was printed in lines, showing the rhythm. The New Testament was published in May, 1881, the Old in May, 1885.
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the revival of literature after the apparent deathtaneously or in quick succession become blow which it received when the barbarous nations of the North destroyed the civilized Roman empire. It commenced in England feebly at the beginning of the 11th century, and became more potent in the 14th, 15th and subsequent centuries.
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a calendar designed to be philosophic, decreed on Nov. 24, 1793, to commence from the foundation of the French republic, Sept. 22, 1792. The 12 months were Vendémiaire, Brumaire, Frimaire, Nivose, Pluviose, Ventose, Germinal, Floréal, Prairial, Messidor, Fervidor or Thermidor, and Fructidor. The first three constituted Autumn, the second three Winter, the third Spring, and the fourth three Summer.
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in French history, the name given on Oct. 30, 1793, to what had before been called the Extraordinary Tribunal. It sent many victims to the guillotine.
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Revolving furnaces consist of horizontal wrought-iron cylinders lined with fire-brick, one end of which communicates with a fireplace and the other to a chimney, which, being revolved on rollers as the flame passes through the interior, permits a thorough mixing of the mass and exposes every portion of the material to the action of the heat. This description of furnace is principally employed for roasting, desulphurizing, and chloridizing ores. The Danks and other furnaces of a rotary kind are used for puddling purposes, and consist of the fixed fireplace and bridge, but, instead of the regular bed, a revolving hearth through which the flames are made to pass to the chimney is used for melting the metal. The molten metal, being spread over the interior by the rotary action of the chamber, is brought in contact with the lining, which, being composed of iron ore, acts in conjunction with the oxygen of the furnace gases to oxidize the carbon and silicon contained in the iron. The spongy mass of malleable iron produced is readily lifted out and conveyed to the squeezers after the movable end has been taken away for this purpose. See PUDDLING-FURNACE; MALLEABLE IRON.
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See RIDDLES. Rhodium is one of the rare metals of the platinum group. Excepting iridium, it is the most infusible metal, very hard and brittle, and of a whitish color. When this metal is alloyed with copper, bismuth, or platinum, it may be dissolved with them in aqua regia, but it is insoluble in acids when pure. Owing to its unalterable nature, rhodium has been extensively used to form the nibs of metallic pens and other similar purposes. See PLATINUM.
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a state of India, called also BAGHELKHAND. Area, 13,000 square miles. Pop. about 1,500,000. REWA KANTHA is the name of a political agency under the government of Bombay, containing 61 small states, of which five are tributary to the British Government, and most of the remainder to Baroda. The territory included, covering an area of about 5,000 square miles, with a population of about 700,000, lies mainly alo mainly along the S. bank of the lower Nerbudda with patches N. of it, and on the W. borders on Broach, Baroda, and Ahmadabad.
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