These 11 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Sallow, Sally, Salmon Trout.
A tree or shrub of the willow kind. Rods of this particular wood were much in use amongst the Scythians and the Alani for purposes of augurial divination. Fine straight wands were chosen, on which certain characters were written, and they were then thrown on a white cloth. From the way in which they fell the magician gained the desired information.
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a leaping or springing forth. Specifically, a sudden issue or rushing out of troops from a beleaguered place to attack the besiegers; a sortie; as, the garrison made a successful sally. Excursion from the ordinary track; range; deviation; digression; as, to make sallies into a country district. A spring or darting of intellect, fancy, or imagination; flight of liveliness or humor; sprightly exertion of the faculties; as, sallies of wit. Act of levity or extravagance; unseemly display of vivacity; as, sallies of hot-blooded youth.
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the Salmo trutta, a north European fish, much more common in Scotland than in England. Its habits are those of the salmon. It attains a length of about three feet; upper parts blackish, usually with a purplish tinge on the silvery sides, under part silvery. Called also sea trout, and in Wales and Ireland white trout. The flesh is pink, richly flavored, and much esteemed. Also the namaycush, or large lake trout of North America.
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a white crystalline powder, obtained from phenol and salicylic acid. It is slightly greasy to the touch and tasteless. It is almost insoluble in water, but soluble in alcohol. It is a powerful antipyretic and antiseptic.
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in art, an annual exhibit at Paris of modern painting and sculpture. The name, salon, is derived from the gallery of the Louvre in which exhibitions were held formerly. The exhibit is now held in the handsome Palace of Industry, a rectangular building 810 feet long, 354 feet wide, and 114 feet high, erected on the south side of the Champs-Elysees for the first great Paris exposition of 1855. Paintings are shown on the ground floor; sculpture on the floor above. Exhibits must be accepted by proper committees before they are given place. Prizes are awarded. It is considered an honor to be granted the privilege of exhibiting, and a still greater honor to win a prize. The exhibit is held from May 1st to June 20th. The public is admitted daily for a forenoon fee of forty cents and an afternoon fee of twenty cents, with two afternoons a week free. The higher price of admission for the morning hours is designed to moderate the size of the crowd and give artists a chance to study to better advantage. See Stael ; Madame De
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2026 Editor's Note: This page uses language about other peoples, religions, or nationalities that was commonplace when the book was published and is offensive by today's standards. The text has been left exactly as it was printed, rather than cut or softened, so that the historical record — including how ordinary such language once was — is preserved. (Ed: ET 2026-07-22) an ancient and now ruined city of Dalmatia; at the head of a gulf of the Adriatic, about 3 miles N. E. of the spot on which Diocletian afterward built ato. It was his gigantic palace of Spalato. made a Roman colony in 78 B. c., and later became the capital of Dalmatia and one of the most important cities and seaports of provincial Rome. But it was frequently captured by the Goths and other barbarians, and in 639 was completely destroyed by the Avars. The inhabitants who escaped took refuge in Hadrian's palace. The ruins were excavated during the 19th century; there are now to be seen remains of the former walls, the shell of the ancient Christian cathedral, traces of an amphitheater, and other structures. The city was early made the seat of a bishop, who was soon advanced to the dignity of archbishop of all Dalmatia. After the destruction of the city the archbishop converted the temple of Jupiter at Spalato into his cathedral.
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GULF OF (ancient Sinus Thermaicus), the extreme N. W. arm of the Ægean Sea, between Thessaly on the W., Macedonia on the N. W., and Chalcidice on the E. It is formed of two distinct parts, one of which is very wide, and lies S. E. and N. W.; the other, which is narrow, lies S. W. and N. E., and is about 60 miles long.
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a genus of ascidian or tunicate mollusca forming the representative example of the family Salpida. These animals are found floating in the Mediterranean and the warmer parts of the ocean, and are protected by a tran transparent gelatinous coat, perforated for the passage of water at both extremities. They are frequently phosphorescent, and are met with in two conditions known as single and chain salpæ. Each salpa is of oval or quadrate form, and the organs of the body occupy a comparatively small space within the body-cavity, S. maxima is the most familiar species.
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an island N. of Bombay, British India, with which it is connected by a bridge and a causeway. It is a beautiful island, diversified by mountain and hill, studded with the ruins of Portuguese churches, convents, and villas, and rich in extensive rice fields, cocoanut groves, and palm trees; area, 240 square miles; pop. 150,000; chief town, Thana. Nearly 100 caves and cave-temples exist at Kanhari or Keneri, in the middle of the island, 5 miles W. of Thana. They are excavated in the face of a single hill, and contain elaborate carvings chiefly representations of Buddha, many of colossal size. There are caves in other localities besides those at Kanhari-e.g., at Montpezir, Kanduti, Amboli, etc. It was occupied by the Portuguese early in the 16th century, and was captured by the Mahrattas in 1739 and by the British in 1774.
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in chemistry, sodium chloride. In the plural it is applied in a general sense to compounds of a metal and a halogen, as sodium chloride, NaCl; and to compounds formed by the union of an acid and a base, nitrate of silver AgNO3. In its fuller signification the term suggests a compound which can suffer rapid double decomposition with another soluble substance, as when solutions of chloride of sodium and nitrate of silver are mixed together they at once decompose each other and form chloride of silver and nitrate of sodium. By an extension of meaning the name is sometimes applied to compounds, as chloride of ethyl, acetate of ethyl, and even to fats, as stearin, tristearate of glycerin. Popularly and medicinally the term salts refers to Epsom and Rochelle salts. Salt as a commercial product is a very important industry in the United States. As early as 1620 the Jamestown colonists of Virginia established salt works at Cape ape Charles. Rock salt is abundant in West Virginia and Louisiana, and salt "licks" and springs are found in nearly all the States and Territories. The springs of southern Illinois were worked by the French and Indians in 1720. The Kentucky salt springs were known and used before 1790. Salt production in the United States, (1918) 7,238,744 short tons, valued at $26,940,361. The principal salt-producing states are New York, Michigan, Kansas, Ohio and California.
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