Traun
LAKE OF, a small but beautiful lake in Upper Austria, near the town of Gmunden. The river Traun passes through the lake and enters the Danube.
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Trautwinite
a microcrystalline mineral, occurring in crystals, the system of which has not yet been determined; hardness, 1-2; color, green; luster, dull; streak, light-gray. Analysis yielded: Silica, 21.78; sesquioxide of chromium, 38.39; sesquioxide of iron, 13.29; alumina, 0.81; lime, 18.58; magnesia, 7.88; loss on ignition, on, 0.11 100.84. Occurs on chromite in Monterey co., Cal.
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Travancore
native Tiruvánkod, a protected State in the extreme S. of British India; bounded on the N. by Cochin, on the E. by British territory and on the W. by the Indian Ocean. The State pays a yearly tribute of £80,000 to Great Britain, is politically connected with the province of Madras; area 7,294 square miles; pop. about 3,500,000, mainly Hindus, belonging to 420 castes, from Brahmans to Negroid hillmen. Nairs are over a fourth of the total, Mohammedans only 7 per cent. There are many native Christians of the Syrian rite and some black Jews. At the S. extremity of the State is Cape Comorin; the Western Ghats run along the E. side. W. of the hill foots is a level belt, 10 miles wide, covered with cocoanut and areca palms. On the elevations the soil is light and gravelly; in the valleys it is in general a deep black mold. Travancore shares with Cochin the lagoons or backwaters along the coast. The chief produce is copra, coir, tobacco, nut oil, areca nut, ginger, pepper, cardamoms, beeswax, coffee and timber. The rajahs are intelligent, have been faithful to the English alliance, cherish education, and govern well. The capital is Trivandrum; other principal places are Aulapolai and "hard labor" in prisons, is now greatly Quilon.
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Traverse City
a city of Michigan, the county seat of Grand Traverse co. It is at the mouth of the Boardman river, on Grand Traverse Bay, and on the Pere Marquette, the Grand Rapids and Indiana, the Traverse City, and other railroads. It is an attractive and popular summer resort. It is also the center of an important fruit-growing region, and its industries include the manufacture of baskets, lumber, farm implements, shoes, machine-shop products, etc. It contains the Northern Michigan treason. The present law of treason in Insane Asylum. Pop. (1910), 12,115; (1920), 10,925.
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Traverse Spindle Grinder
This tool will be found very useful for grinding cutters, lathe centers, pump centers, reamers, counter sinks, squaring up barrel arbors after hardening, or any hardened steel tool. In the hand of an ingenious workman, it will be found exceedingly useful, as by its aid a great variety of work can be performed that cannot be accomplished without it. Fig. 306, is the Moseley pattern, and is designed to attach to the slide rest.
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Traverse Spindle Tailstock
This attachment, shown in Fig. 302, will be found very convenient for straight drilling. Where the watchmaker has a great deal of drilling to do, he will find this attachment invaluable. TAVAN, ANTOINE. A celebrated French watchmaker who resided the better part of his life in Geneva. Born at Aost, France, in 1749 and died at Geneva in 1836. TAVERNIER, LOUIS. A celebrated Parisian watchmaker who lived about 1800. He studied the cylinder escapement with great care and with considerable success.
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Traverse Table
in navigation, a table by means of which the difference of latitude and departure corresponding to any given course and distance may be found by inspection. It contains the lengths of the two sides of a right-angled triangle, usually for every quarter of a degree of angle, and for all lengths of the hypotenuse from 1 to 100. In railroading a platform on which cars are shunted from one track to another of a switch table.
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Treacle
. See Sugar
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Treasure-Trove
trezh'ur-trov, in English law, any treasure, as coin, gold, silver, plate, jewelry, or gems, found hidden away without an apparent owner. The word trove means found. The English laws require the finder to deliver treasure-trove to the proper officer for the use of the crown. In case the finder conceals the treasure, or neglects to report it, he is subject to arrest and punishment for theft. In practice, however, the English courts are accustomed to award treasure of this sort to the finder. In the United States treasure found hidden belongs to the owner of the land. If the owner of the land be unknown the treasure belongs to the finder. See Kidd ; Thebes ; Nibelungenlied
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Treasury Department
one of the executive branches of the United States Government; the fiscal branch of the Government. It controls the collection, custody, and disbursement of the public revenue. It is presided over by a secretary, who directs the collection, safekeeping, and disbursement of the revenue, submits to Congress the estimates of annual expenditures, and of the probable revenue; prepares plans for the improvement and management of the revenue, and for the support of public credit; prescribes the forms of keeping and rendering all public accounts; collects and registers statistics of commercial and manufacturing operations, and in general directs the business of the department, in all of which he has the aid and advice of three assistant secretaries and the assistance of a corps of bureau officers who attend to matters of administrative detail in their respective services. Payments are made on warrants issued by the secretary or an assistant secretary, countersigned by either the first or second comptroller, and registered by the register of the treasury. The office of the Treasurer of the United States is a bureau of the Treasury Department, and is specially charged with the custody of the public money. Other important branches of the Treasury Department are the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Bureau of the Mint, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and the Secret Service Division engaged in the detection and prevention of counterfeiting.
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Treble
in music, of or pertaining to the highest vocal or instrumental part, sung by boys, or played by violins, oboes, clarinets, or other instruments of acute tone.
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Tree
a perennial, woody plant, larger than a shrub. The distinction between a shrub and a tree is largely one of size. In the United States a plant is scarcely called a tree unless it has a stem twenty-five or thirty feet in height. The name is applied to plants also that may hardly be called woody, as the tree cactus of Arizona, and the tree fern of tropical regions. The largest trees in the world are said to be those in the forests of eucalyptus in the mountains near Melbourne and Sydney, Australia. Next to these are the giant redwood trees of California. Trees that cast their foliage on the approach of winter are said to be deciduous; those that produce fresh leaves before the old are shed are called evergreen. Trees that bear cones are called coniferous. Some evergreen trees, as the laurel, are not coniferous; some coniferous trees, as the tamarack, are not evergreen. Nutbearing trees are nuciferous; berry-bearing trees are bacciferous. See Forestry ; Lumber ; and the different forest trees, as OAK; HICKORY; PINE; CHESTNUT; EUCALYPTUS; ELM; ASH; also orchard trees, as APPLE; CHERRY, etc.
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