These 9 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Tonsilitis, Tonsils, Tonson.
inflammation of one or both of the tonsils, generally extending also to the palate and uvula. It brings with it dryness, pain, and heat of the throat, with difficulty of swallowing, and often ends in abscesses, one at least of which suppurates. It It is a common disease in moist variable weather.
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in anatomy, two glands, one on each side of the pa palate between its pillars. They consist of a number of deep mucous follicles or cryptæ, surrounded by and deposited in cellular tissue arranged in a somewhat circular sometimes called form. They are amygdalæ. See TONSILITIS.
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JACOB, an English publisher; born in London, England, in 1656. He commenced business in Chancery Lane in 1677, removed to Gray's Inn in 1697, and thence in 1712 to the Shakespeare's Head, opposite Catherine Street in the Strand. He retired from business April 21, 1736. He is in 1720, and died A worthy of remembrance as Dryden's regular publisher, as the originator of the miscellanies which bear his name, as having brought out the first good editions of Milton and the first complete octavo edition of Shakespeare, and as the secretary of the Kit Cat Club, which used to meet in his villa at Barn Elms, on the Thames.
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in Goldsmith's comedy, She Stoops to Conquer, a young country squire. He is conceited, ignorant, loud-voiced, and mischievous, proud to display the vices of a man, and by no means abashed that he still possesses the follies of a boy. See Goldsmith
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a familiar toy. Most boys have made a conical top spin on its apex by twirling a projecting handle between the thumb and middle finger. A top of this sort, two of them in fact, may be made out of an ordinary spool for thread, first filling the hole in the spool with a rod the size of a slate-pencil. If the ends of the rod be left long to serve as handles, the middle of the spool--the part on which the thread is wound--may be whittled down to a point like the waist of an hour-glass, forming the two cones desired. If the head end of a common pin be cut off and driven into the wooden apex until the head of the pin affords a middle point for the cone to whirl on, we have a top or pair of tops fit for a prince. A large top may be driven by lashing it with a whip. Still another top is set in motion by winding a thong around the handle or body and then flinging the top down while the loose end of the thong is held in the hand. See Toys
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capital of Kansas, the county seat of Shawnee co. It is on the Kansas river and the Missouri Pacific, the Union Pacific, the Atchison, Topeka and Sante Fe, the Leavenworth and Topeka, and the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific railroads. It has an area of about 16 square miles. The city is laid out in unusually attractive lines and the streets are adorned with beautiful shade trees. The notable buildings include the State Capitol, the Kansas Memorial Building, public library, United States Government building, State Museum, county court house, city hall and an auditorium. It is the seat of Washington College, and also has a State insane asylum and a State reform school, as well as many important local and charitable institutions. The industries are chiefly those connected with the Santa Fe Railroad shops. There are also manufactures of machinery, lumber, boilers, woolen goods, etc. There is a considerable wholesale job bing business. Topeka was founded in 1854 by eastern anti-slavery men following the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill. In 1856 an antislavery convention adopted the Topeka Constitution and the Topeka Government was established. This, however, was soon broken up by United States troops. In 1857 it was chartered as a city and in 1861 became the capital of the State. Pop. (1920), 50,022. (1910), 43,684;
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in Scripture, a place in the immediate vicinity of Jerusalem, considered by Milton to be identical with the valley of Hinnom, but described in Scripture as in that valley (II Kings xxiii: 10; Jer. vii: 31). It was S. E. of Jerusalem (Jer. xix: 2), and has been prepared of old for some king of Israel, or for Moloch (Isa. xxx: 33). What ever its primary design, "high places" were erected there, and it became the chief seat of the worship of Moloch in Palestine (II Kings xxiii: 10; Jer. vii: 31); Josiah not merely stopped that cruel form of idolatry, but defiled the place (II Kings xxiii: 10; Jer. xix: 13), apparently by making it the receptacle of the filth of the capital. It became a burial ground ultimately overcrowded with bodies (Jer. vii: 31, 32; xix: 6, 11).
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AUGUSTUS MONTA- GUE, an English theologian and hymnologist; born in Farnham, Surrey, England, Nov. 4, 1740; was educated at Westminster and Trinity College, Dublin. After holding a curacy for some years in Somersetshire, he was presented in 1768 to the vicarage of Broadhembury, Devonshire. His works were published in six volumes in 1825; new edition in one volume, 1837, with a memoir. Though a voluminous writer and a strenuous defender of Calvinism against John Wesley-Toplady is now hardly known except as the author of the hymn "Rock of Ages," one of the most exquisite expressions of evangelical faith and fervor to be found within the compass of the English tongue. A Latin version by Mr. Gladstone "Translations by Lord Lyttleton and the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone" (1861) has added fresh beauty to the original. He died in London, Aug. 11, 1778.
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ALFRED THOMAS ARCHIMEDES, an American military officer; born in Georgetown, Del., July 1, 1833; was graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1855; spent five years on frontier duty in Texas, Florida, New Mexico and Utah. In the latter half of 1862 he won distinction in the battles of Manassas and Crampton's Gap; was made Brigadier-General of vol- He unteers on Nov. 29, of that year. afterward took part at Gettysburg, Rap- Creek, pahannock Station, Matadequin etc. He capt He captured Cold Harbor on May 31, 1864. He particularly distinguished himself on Sept. 19, 1864, routing the enemy at Winchester, and on Oct. 9 won the cavalry battle at Tom's river. On Dec. 22 and 23 he had command at Liberty Mills and Gordonsville. In March, 1865, he was brevetted Major- General, U. S. A., for gallantry during the war. He served as consul-general to Paris in 1873-1878. He was drowned Sept. 30, 1880, while a passenger on the steamer "Vera Cruz."
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