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.
in architecture, denoting an arch or dome which rises higher than a semicircle. In heraldry, a term denoting the position of a charge over which another charge of different color or metal is laid. The annexed figures, which may respectively be blazoned: "Sable," a pile argent surmounted by chevron gules; and a "argent," a cross gules surmounted by another "or."
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the outer garment of an officiating priest, deacon, or chorister in the Church England and the Roman Catholic Church, worn over their other dress during the performance of religious services. It is a loose, flowing vestment of white linen, generally reaching almost to the feet, with broad, full sleeves. It differs from the alb in being fuller, and in having no girdle, nor embroidery at the foot.
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The four-armed piece secured to the quarter snail which is free to move within certain limits, and prevents the rack from reaching the snail. See Repairing Repeating Watches.
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generally a deputy, a substitute, a delegate, a person appointed to act for another; specifically, the deputy of an ecclesiastical judge, most commonly of a bishop or his chancellor, who grants marriage licenses and probates. Also an officer who presides over the probate of wills and testaments and the settlement of estates.
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ROBERT, an English historian; born in Durham, April 1, 1779; was graduated at Oxford (1800), and studied law at the Middle Temple till by his father's death in 1802 he came into the Mainsforth property. Thenceforth he devoted himself to writing his "History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham" (3 vols. 1816-1823), to the fourth volume (1840) of which, completed by the Rev. J. Baine, a "Memoir" by G. Taylor is prefixed. Surtees died Feb. 11, 1834, and in the same year was founded the Surtees Society for editing مرا unpublished MSS. chiefly relating to the Northern Counties.
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the sun god of Hindu mythology.
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in Jewish history, the wife of Joakim, the tribe of Judah. She followed her husband to Babylon as a captive. Two elders or judges of Israel endeavored to seduce her, and, failing in their object, they accused her of adultery. She was condemned to death; but Daniel obtained a reversal of the sentence and succeeded in establishing her innocence. This is stated to have occurred in Babylon about 600 b. c.
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the principal watershed of the river of the same name, an affluent of Cook Inlet, Alaska. Area, about 8,000 square miles. The timber resources of the region are of importance and certain sections of it are also well suited for agriculture and stock raising. Part of the government railway between Cook Inlet and Fairbanks traverses the region.
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in zoölogy, a sub-section of colubrine snakes, having the fangs situated at the back of the jaw behind the common teeth. Head usually covered with shield-like plates. Some are known to be harmless, others are reputed poisonous, though it is doubtful if they really are so. Families Homalopsidæ, Dipsadidæ, and Dendrophidæ.
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the temporary cessation of the outward signs and of some of the functions of life.
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a railway in which the carriage is suspended from an elevated track, one carriage on each side of a single track, so as to balance, or suspended between two tracks.
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in anatomy, the longitudinal ligament of the liver. In botany, a very delicate thread descending from the foramen of an ovule into the quintine, and bearing at its extremity a globule which is the nascent embryo. It develops from the upper of two cells in a fertilized ovule, of which the lower one becomes the embryo. The suspensor is sometimes long, as in Boraginacex, Cruciferæ, etc., etc., etc or short as in Graminaceæ, Polygonaceæ, etc. Called also the suspensory cord, the pro-embryo, and by Dutrochet the hypostasis. In surgery, a suspensory bandage.
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a river of the United States, formed by two branches, an E. or N. branch, 250 miles long from Lake Otsego in New York, and a W. branch, 200 miles from the W. slope of the Alleghanies, which unite at Northumberland in Pennsylvania. The united stream flows S. and S. E., and after a course of 150 miles reaches the head of Chesapeake Bay at Port Deposit, Md. It is a wide but shallow stream, nowhere navigable to any extent, except in the spring.
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a maritime county, of southeast England. Area, 1,458 sq. miles; pop. about 700,000. The Downs supply pasturage for a famous breed of sheep. Agriculture and cattle raising are the principal industries of the county. The chief rivers are the Arun, Adur, and Ouse. The South Downs, stretching across the county from west to east, end about 20 miles east of Brighton in the lofty cliff of Beachy Head. The district of the Weald is very fertile and richly wooded. West of Brighton, along the coast to the Hampshire border, and in the southeast of the county rich marsh provide superb pasturage. There are gypsum beds near Netherfield, large railway works at Brighton, and important fisheries in many of the coast towns. Capital, Chichester.
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a person who follows an army and sells to the troops provisions, liquors, or the like. The sutlers attached to regiments in the French army are called vivandiers.
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JOHN AUGUSTUS, an pioneer; born in Kandern, Germany, Feb. 15, raduated at the Berne Military Academy in 1823; settled in St. Louis, Mo., in 1834, but soon removed to Santa Fé, where he engaged in a lucrative trade with trappers and Indians. Receiving favorable accounts of California he crossed the Rocky Mountains in 1838; sailed down the Columbia river and thence to Hawaii. After going to Sitka, Alaska, he cruised along the Pacific coast and was stranded at the site of San Francisco in July, 1839. During that year he established the first white settlement on the site of Sacramento. In 1841 after receiving a large tract of land from Mexico, he built a fort which he named New Helvetia; was made governor of the frontier country by Mexico, but was held in suspicion by the Mexicans owing to his friendly feelings toward the United States. In 1848 when California was ceded to the United States, he owned many thousand head of cattle, much land, and other property, but owing to the discovery of gold on his estates was overrun by miners, and his workmen left him, and not being able to secure others he was financially ruined. He appealed to the Supreme Court, but was "The not sustained. Later the Legislature of California granted him a pension of $250 a month. He moved to Lititz, Pa., in 1873. He died in Washington, D. C., June 17, 1880.
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