These 16 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Thrips, Throat, Throatwort.
a genus of minute insects, order Hemiptera, sub-order Homoptera, closely allied to the Aphides. They are extremely agile and seem to leap rather than fly. They live on flowers, plants, and under the bark of trees. T. cerealium is a common species, scarcely a line in length or in extent of wing, residing 9, or 12, in the spathes and husks of cereals, especially wheat, to which it is most injurious.
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the anterior part of the neck of an animal, in which are the œsophagus and windpipe, or the passages for the food and breath.
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in botany: (1) Campanula trachelium, the nettle-leaved bellflower; a tall, hispid plant, with an angled stem, ovate-lanceolate leaves, and bluish-purple flowers; found in England, the European continent, etc. (2) C. cervicaria, which has light-blue flowers, and is a native of Germany. (3) Digitalis purpurea.
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an amorphous mineral of uncertain composition, occurring with malachite on fine - grained limestone gr at. Rezbanya, 3.38-3.67, Hungary; luster;, hardness vitreous,; 3.4 color; sp,. color shades of green; opaque. Composition , stated to be a hydrated phosphate of copper, but the result of the latest analysis by stetefeldtite Schrauf, points partzite to, its analogy with etc.
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in pathology, local formation of clot, called a thrombus, either in the heart or a blood-vessel during life. When it occurs in the systemic veins it is called Phlegmasia dolens.
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in pathology, a tumor formed by blood effused from a vein and coagulated in the adjacent tissue; the coagulum or clot, usually fibrinous in texture, which partially or totally closes a vessel in a thrombosis.
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the chair used on occasions of state by a king, emperor, or Pope. It is usually raised, and often surmounted with a canopy. The term is also applied to the seat of a bishop in his cathedral church, and is a common metaphor to express sovereign power.
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THE, Persepolis, so named by its Persian founders. Jamsheed removed the seat of government from Balkh thither.
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a borough of Pennsylvania, in Lackawanna co. It is on the New York, Ontario and Western and the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western railroads. It adjoins Scranton. Its chief industries are coal mining and the manufacture of silk. Pop. (1910) 5,133; (1920) 6,672.
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or THAG, the name given in of a fraternity who looked on murder as the sole means of staying the wrath of the goddess Kali, and derived their principal means of support from the plunder of their victims. In old times, according to Hindu mythology, Kali made war on a race of giants, from every drop of
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or THAG whose blood sprang a demon. These demons multiplied, and at last the goddess created two men to whom she gave handkerchiefs, with which they strangled their infernal beings. When the men had finished their task the goddess gave them the privilege of using the handkerchief against their fellows, and so the class of Thugs is said to have arisen. Though worshipping a Hindu goddess, the majority of the Thugs were Mohammedans. They usually traveled in gangs, the members of which had ostensibly some honest calling in their own community, and in selecting their victims always endeavored to pitch on persons of property in order that while propitiating goddess they might enrich worshipers. Various steps were taken to suppress the Thugs, both by the native and the English governments, and in 1829 Lord illiam Bentinck adopted opted such stringent measures that in six years (1830-1835) 2,000 of them were arrested; and of these, 1,500 were convicted and sentenced to death, transportation, or imprisonment, according to the gravity of the charges proved against them. In 1836 a law was passed making the fact of belonging to a gang of Thugs punishable by imprisonment for life with hard labor, and though some gangs continued to operate sporadically for many years, the system is now powerless.
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a secret, semi-religious fraternity of robbers and assassins. They formerly infested the central and northern provinces of India. They traveled about the country in small bands, disguised as merchants or peddlers or as holy pilgrims. They ingratiated themselves with travelers and murdered them in lonely spots. Even the laborer by the roadside was not safe. Although they stripped their victims they appear to have been moved by a secret fanatical motive, rather than from lust of gain. One-third of their plunder they gave to their goddess. The bodies of their victims they buried, first digging a hole with a consecrated mattock, and performing certain religious rites. Each band had its leader, its teacher, its trappers, its stranglers, and its grave diggers. They were extremely deft in their operations. They strangled their victims with a scarf, turban, or slip noose, without shedding of blood. They were a terror to the natives who dared not, if they could, give information. They were as difficult to suppress as bandits. Between 1826 and 1835, 1,562 thugs were executed. The order was exterminated finally.
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thoo'le, in ancient geography, the most northerly country known. The idea of the ancients was indefinite. By some the term is applied to Iceland; by others it is identified with northern Scotland. William Black, the Scottish novelist, utilizes the latter idea in his A Princess of Thule.
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THURE DE, an American artist and illustrator; born in Sweden in 1848. He graduated from the National Military Academy in Stockholm, and was for a while minister of war in the Swedish Cabinet. He later served as an officer in the French army in Algeria, then studied art in Paris. Later he went to Canada as topographical engineer. Coming to New York, York, he began his career as illustrator, and for many years was a regular contributor to the "New York Graphic," "Leslie's Weekly," "Harper's Weekly," and a number of other similar publications.
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in anthropology, a popular name for short form of a scrapers, the long varieties of which are sometimes known as "finger flints." Evans thinks that these names, "though colloquially convenient, are not sufficiently definite to be worthy of being retained."
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a former instrument of torture for compressing the thumbs. It was employed in various countries, Scotland in particular; called also thumbikins or thumbkins.
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