Tallow
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These 11 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Tallow, Tallow, Talma.
Tallow
in chemistry, a name applied to the harder and less fusible fats occurring chiefly in the animal kingdom, the most common being beef and mutton tallow. When pure it is white and almost tasteless, and consists of stearin, palmitin, and olein in varying proportions. Tallow is of two kinds, viz., white and yellow candle tallow, and common soap tallow. The white candle tallow, when good, is brittle, dry and clean. Yellow candle tallow, when good, should be clean, dry, hard when broken, and of a fine yellow color throughout. Soap tallow is used for making soap, and for greasing machinery. A great deal of tallow is also used for the dressing of leather.
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Talma
JOSEPH FRANÇOIS (tälmä'), a French actor; born in Paris, France, Jan. 15, 1763. He was educated at Mazarin College, and afterward went to London with his father, a dentist; studied in the hospitals there, and on returning to Paris was apprenticed to a dentist. He had been on the stage, however, both in London and Paris, and made his professional début Nov. 21, 1787, at the Comédie Française. He founded, with a few others, the theater afterward known as the Théatre de la République. He won his fame as a tragedian, but made many improvements in the naturalness of stage productions. He P wrote "Memoirs of Lekain, and Reflections on that Actor and the Theatric Art" (1825), which was republished in 1856 under a slightly different title. His own "Memoirs" were edited by Alexandre Dumas (1856). He died in Paris Oct. 19, 1826.
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Talmage
THOMAS DE WITT, an American clergyman; born in Bound Brook, N. J., Jan. 7, 1832; was graduated at the New Brunswick Theological Seminary in 1856; and ordained pastor of the Reformed Dutch Church in Belleville, N. J., in the same year. He was pastor of the Central Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1869-1894, during which time this well-known place of worship was three times destroyed by fire. Feeling himself unable to build another church edifice, he resigned his charge and spent some time in Europe; becoming on his return associate and later Cyc-Vol. IX full pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Washington, D. C. He held this charge till 1899, when he resigned in order to apply himself wholly to literary work. He was for many years the editor of the "Christian Herald" and was the author of "Crumbs Swept Up," "Woman: Her Powers and Privileges"; "From Manger to Throne"; "Every-Day Religion"; etc. He died in Washington, D. C., April 12, 1902.
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Tals
small or lower-case letters, italics, script, etc. From their size they receive the following names, from brilliant, which, ch, however, is rarely used, to English, the largest used in ordinary book work: Brilliant, diamond, pearl, ruby, nonpareil, minion, brevier. bourgeois, long primer, small pica, pica, Eng lish. The different sizes are now, however, named by the "point" system, as 5point, 5/2-point, 6-point, etc. Types are made by casting (which is now done by machinery), y), the letter being first cut on the end of a steel punch, and the punch then driven into a piece of copper, which forms the matrix or bottom of the mold intended to produce the letter. A fount or font is a complete assortment of any given kind of type, the number of each letter being in proportion to the frequence of its occurrence in printed matter, thus: 8,000 9,000 n... a. b.. 2,000 0.... 8,000 4,000 p.... 2,400 c. d. 5,000 q.. 600 14,000 r.. 7,000 e. 8,000 3,000 s... f.. 2,000 t.... 10,000 4,500 h. 6,000 u.. 1,500 9,000 v. i. 2,500 500 w k. 800 x.. 500 2,500 5,000 y.. 1. m. 300 3,000z.. A complete font of type, including Roman and Italic, with capitals, figures, points, and signs, consists of 226 different characters.
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Talus
in geology, a sloping heap of rocky fragments broken off from the face of a steep rock by the action of the weather, and accumulating at its base So called from its resemblance to a talus in fortification. In surgery, a variety of club-foot, in which the heel rests on the ground, and the toes are drawn toward the leg.
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Tamaqua
a borough in Schuylkill co., Pa.; on the Little Schuylkill river, and on the Philadelphia and Reading, and the Central of New Jersey railroads; 40 miles N. of Reading. Here are a high school, waterworks, electric lights, National and State banks, and several daily and weekly newspapers. It has large coal interests, flour, powder, and planing mills, machine shops, and several foundries. Pop. (1910) 9,462; (1920) 12,363.
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Tamar
a small river in England, flowing between the counties of Cornwall and Devonshire; empties into above Plymouth Sound, miles 2 Plymouth; length about 60 miles. Also a river of Tasmania, formed by the union of the North and South Esk, and flowing into Bass's Straits at Fort Dalrymple.
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Tamarack
the American or black larch, Larix pendula or americana, called also Abies pendula. It has weak and drooping branches, which sometimes take root, forming a natural arch. The leaves are clustered and deciduous, the cones oblong with numerous spreading scales. It constitutes a feature of the forests in Canada and the northern United States. Its timber is valuable, but less so than the larch. It is cultivated in Europe, being more graceful and greener than the common larch.
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Tamarin
the name of certain South American monkeys. The tamarins are active, restless, and irritable little creatures, two of the smallest being the silky tamarin (Midas rosalia) and the little lion monkey (M. leonina), the latter of which, though only a few inches in length, presents a wonderful resemblance to the lion.
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Tamarisk
a genus of ornamental plants comprising several species. The common tamarisk is an ornamental plant. It is found in the Mediterranean. The leaves have a feathery aspect. The plant prefers salty shores. In late summer it bears a profusion of pink flowers. It has been planted extensively in the United States , but it cannot stand the northern winter. The stem and leaves are charged with sulphite of soda. A species not uncommon in southeastern Asia produces manna. Still another species of tamarisk produces galls which contain half their own weight of tannin. These galls are collected and sold for medicine. Yet another species found in northwestern India and westward is known as the tamarisk salt tree. It is a drought-resisting plant, and exudes salt until the bark of the stem and twigs become quite encrusted. The natives collect this salt of culinary purposes.
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