These 9 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Stairs, Stake Net, Staking Tool.
SIR JOHN a pretty severe wound. The stag beetle is common in forests, and flies about in the evening in summer. The larva feeds on the wood of the oak and the willow, into the trunks of which it eats its way, and lives for a considerable time before undergoing a metamorphosis. Some of the tropical stag beetles are very brilliantly colored.
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SIR JOHN at St. Michael's College, Tenbury, then in 1859 to Magdalen College, Oxford, and ultimately in 1872 to St. Paul's. While at Oxford he graduated both in arts and music. He was inspector of music to the Educational Department and the author of the oratorio "Gideon" (1865); the cantatas, "The Daughter of Jairus," "Mary Magdalene," "The Crucifixion"; a treatise on the "Theory of Harmony" (1871); "Music of the Bible" (1879); "Organ Playing"; etc.; joint author with W. A. Barrett of "Dictionary of Musical Terms" (1876), and editor of "Music Primers." He died in 1901.
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a succession of steps raised one above the other, affording means of communication between two points at different heights in a building, etc. Originally the stairs were placed from story to story in straight flights, like ladders, and were often external, being sheltered by a projection from the roof, but to save space the sp spiral form was adopted, the stair being contained in a cylindrical building projecting from the outside of the edifice. In this construction a central axis or newel reaching from the ground to the roof serves to support the inner ends of the steps, and the outer ends are let into the walls. The spiral form is still used in certain circumstances, but the finest stairs are now constructed in straight sections separated from each other by a wide step or platform called a landing.
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a form of net for catching salmon, consisting of a sheet of network stretched on stakes fixed into the ground, generally in rivers or where the sea ebbs and flows, with contrivances for entangling and catching the fish. STALACTITE and STALAGMITE, formations of carbonate of lime. Stalactitic formations occur chiefly in long and more or less fantastic-shaped masses suspended from the roofs of caverns in limestone rocks. The flatter deposits, called stalagmites, are formed on the floor of the cavern by the water there depositing that portion of the carbonate of lime which is not separated during the formation of the stalactite. The most remarkable instances of their occurrence in Great Britain are in the cavern at Castleton in Derbyshire, and Macallaster Cave in the Isle of Skye. The grotto of Antiparos in the Archipelago, the Woodman's Cave in the Harz in Germany, that of Auxelle in France, and Luray (Virginia) and Mammoth (Kentucky) Caves in the United States are striking instances of their formation in other countries. to his 16th year; appointed organist first STALYBRIDGE, a cotton town of Cheshire and Lancashire, England, 7½ miles E. by N. of Manchester. Dating only from 1776, it has huge factories for the spinning of cotton yarns and calico-weaving, iron foundries, and machine shops, a town hall, market buildings, a mechanics' institute, an Odd Fellows' hall, and, between it and Ashton- under Lyne to the W., the Stamford Park. Pop. (1918) 27,500.
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A tool needed by every watchmaker, consisting of a shifting table or stake, around which holes of various sizes are arranged in a circle, so that any desired hole may be brought under a suitable punch moving in a vertical holder. Usually twenty-four tempered steel punches and four stumps are provided, which will be found sufficient to cover all the operations in the ordinary run of watch repairs, and the ingenious workman can from time to time add to these by making punches in his spare moments, if he finds from experience that he is in need of punches of a different shape. Fig. 295 illustrates the Johanson combination staking tool on the front of which a hairspring stud indicator is arranged.
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Smith's patent staking tool, anvil and screw holder, shown in Fig. 296, will be found a very handy tool for removing and putting on rollers, for putting hairspring collet on balance staff, or for riveting in bushings. The plain staking block, or anvil, is usually made of a solid piece of polished steel, in the form of a cube, or circular as in Fig. 297. The example shown has a reversible center hub which makes it valuable for putting on hands, etc.
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Water containing carbonate of lime in solution deposits a portion of it on free exposure to the air. This is often seen in calcareous caverns. The water, as it trickles from fissures in the roof, deposits its carbonate until pendent masses form there. These are called stalactites. Where the water strikes on falling, other forms similar to those above gradually grow on the floor, and are called stalagmites. When these meet and unite they form a column.
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in botany, the male organ of a flower, called by the old botanists an apex and a chive. Morphologically it is a transformed leaf. a filament, an anther, and pollen. The last two are essential, the first is not. When anther and pollen are wanting, the stamen is called a sterile or abortive. If the stamens are equal in number to the petals then normally they alternate with them. They always originate from the space between the base of the petals and the base of the ovary, but they may cohere with other organs, whence the terms epigynous, hypogynous, and perigynous. Cohesion among themselves may make them monadelphous, phous, diadelphous, or polyadelphous. They may be on different flowers, or even different plants, from the pistils, whence the terms monecious or diecious. Other terms used of stamens are exserted, included, declinate, didynamous, and tetradynamous. The stamens taken collectively form the andrœceum or male apparatus of the flower.
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a city in Fairfield co., Conn.; on Long Island Sound, and on the New York, New Haven, and Hartford railroad; 34 miles E. of New York. Here are the Ferguson Library, high school, hospital, town hall, parks, waterworks, street railroad and electric light plants, several National and savings banks, and a number of daily and weekly newspapers. It is the residence place of many New York business men. The industries include woolen mills, lumber mills, and manufactories of carriages, chemicals, wire, pianos, paints, chocolate, hardware, stoves, straw hats, machinery, shoes, locks, dye-stuffs, pottery, etc. Pop. (1910) 25,138; (1920) 35,096.
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