These 10 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Tabanide, Tabard, Tabasco.
a bay on the east coast of the Liaotung Peninsula, Manchuria. It is ice-free throughout the year, and as a result of its depth and roominess it is of considerable importance. The port of Dalny is situated at its head. The bay, with the surrounding territory, was leased by Russia from China in 1898, and in 1905 was surrendered to Japan.
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the horse fly family, comprising large dipterous insects, which in the female have a proboscis inclosing six sharp lancets, and in the male four; the eyes are very large and cover nearly the whole head; thorax oblong, and abdomen triangular. They are notorious for their attacks on horses and cattle, piercing them, sucking their blood, and causing them great pain.
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an outer garment. The tabard worn by the plowman in Chaucer's Prologue to the Canterbury Tales was a rough cloak of heavy woolen material used by working people as a protection against severe weather. The military tabard of the fifteenth century was a loose shirt-like garment, having usually short sleeves or none at all, worn over the armor. It was customarily embroidered with the family arms of the wearer. About the middle of the sixteenth century it ceased to be worn, except by heralds. The painter Vandyke has left a drawing of two English heralds of the seventeenth century clad in their official tabards, decorated with the arms of their sovereign. In Marmion Scott speaks of the tabard as the distinctive dress of the herald: Two pursuivants, whom tabards deck With silver scutcheon round their neck, Stood on the steps of stone. The Tabard Inn, from which Chaucer's Pilgrims started on their trip to Canterbury, stood south of the Thames in the suburb of London known as Southwark, near the road for Kent. It took its name from the picture of a tabard on the signboard. The old hostelry was torn down in 1866 to make room for a freight depot.
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a gulf state of Mexico, named from a river running into Campeche Bay; area 10,374 square miles; pop. about 194,000. The surface is generally flat except in the S. part, and the soil is fertile, producing a fine variety of coffee. Capital, San Juan Bautista.
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FEAST OF, in Jewish antiquities, Chhag hassukkoth, one of the three leading Jewish feasts, on the recurrence of which all the males are required to present themselves at Jerusalem. During this feast the people dwelt on their housetops or elsewhere in booths made of the branches of trees, in commemoration of their tent life in the wilderness. Called also the Feast of Ingathering, because it was a feast of thanksgiving for the completion of the harvest and the vintage. It lasted for 8 days, from the 15th to the 23d of Tisri, corresponding to October. The first and eighth days were holy convocations.
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in anatomy, a division TABLAT or parting of the skull into two tables. In art, a painting on a wall or ceiling. In music, a general name for all the signs and characters used in music; those who were well acquainted with these signs were said to sing by tablature. Also, a peculiar system of notation employed for instruments of the lute class, for viols, and certain wind instruments. The earliest systems of notation, like the music of Asiatic nations to this day, were different sorts of tablature. That which may be called the modern tablature was invented not earlier than the 16th century. In England tablature was employed for all stringed instruments, the number of lines employed being regulated by the number of strings the instrument possessed. Tablature for wind instruments was expressed by dots on a stave of 6, 7, or 8 lines, according to the number of holes in the instrument, the number of dots signifying the number of holes to be stopped by the fingers. Organ tablature was a system of writing the notes without the stave by means of letters. Thus, the several octaves were called great, little, 1 and 2-line octaves, according to the style of letter employed to indicate them. The name has also been applied to figured bass.
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The roller of a lever escapement that carries the impulse pin. The upper flat surface of a diamond, or other precious stone, the sides of which are cut in angles.
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in physical geography, a plateau; a plain existing at some considerable elevation above the sea. Volcanic rocks often make such table-lands, as in central India; so do limestones. Or a sea bed or a lake bed, or a great stretch of country, may be upheaved. The chief table-lands are in the Old World, extensive, low-lying plains rather than table-lands characterizing the New. One occupies about half the surface of Asia, being 5,500 miles from E. to W., and from 700 to 2,000 miles from N. to S. In Europe there are table-lands in parts of Switze Switzerland, France, Spain, and Bavaria. African table-lands exist in Morocco, Abyssinia, the region of the Victoria Nyanza, etc. In North America there are plateaux along the Pacific, Labrador, etc., and in South America, in Brazil and the adjacent countries.
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MOUNT, a solitary elevation on the N. E. border of the plain of Esdrælon. It is remarkable for the symmetry of its form, which resembles a truncated cone, from certain points appearing almost hemispherical. The top measures about half a mile across, and is about 1,300 feet above the level of the plain. Now crowned by a confused mass of broken walls, towers, etc., it has a history extending from the invasion of Canaan by the Israelites (Josh. xix: 12, 22; Judg. iv.) down to the present time. It is not mentioned in the New Testament.
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a small shallow drum used to accompany the pipe and beaten by the fingers. The old English tabor was hung round the neck, and beaten with a stick held in the right hand, while the left hand was occupied in fingering a pipe. The pipe and tabor were the ordinary accompaniment of the morris dance.
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