Viscera
in anatomy, the contents of the great cavities of the body, as of the skull, chest, and abdomen, but in popular language restricted to the organs of the thorax and abdomen; the bowels; the entrails.
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Single-source entries: V (29)
These 11 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Viscera, Vischer, Viscin.
Vischer
PETER, a German sculptor; born in Nuremberg, Bavaria, in 1455, son of a worker in bronze. He attained great fame as an artist and received orders both from German and foreign princes. His most celebrated work is the tomb of St. Sebaldus in Nuremberg, which contains 72 figures, besides those of the apostles and prophets. He died in Nuremberg, Jan. 7, 1529.
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Viscin
a waxy substance, the principal constituent of bird-lime, extracted from the stalks, leaves, and berries of the mistletoe. It is clear, colorless, inodorous, and tasteless, insoluble in water, but slightly soluble in alcohol, has the consistency of honey at ordinary temperatures, but becomes more fluid at 30°. Heated to 100°, it is as fluid as almond oil.
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Visconti
ENNIO QUIRINO, an Italian archæologist; born in Rome, Italy, Nov. 1, 1751. In his 14th year he translated into Italian verse the "Hecuba" of Euripides. His greatest work is "Grecian Iconography" (3 vols. He visited London at the vols. 1808). invitation of Lord Elgin to inspect the Elgin Marbles, 1817, and wrote "Memoirs on the Works of Sculpture from the Parthenon" (1818). He died Feb. 7, 1818.
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Visconti (Name of one of the most)
the name of one of the most illustrious families of Lombardy, which rose to the sovereign rank in northern Italy in the 13th century, and was equally distinguished by the share it took in the political contests of the Middle Ages, and by the services which it rendered to literature and science. The name Visconti is derived from the Latin vice-comites, and at first was merely the title of an office, but it gradually became 6 GIOVANNI VISCONTI a family surname, though when it came to be applied to this family authentic history fails to explain. The power of Visconti began in 1277, when Ottone Visconti, archbishop of Milan, vanquished his popular opponents headed by by Martino della Torre, and became perpetual Lord of Milan.. Two of the most important members of the family were Matteo, who was compelled to resign by Pope John XXII.; and Giovanni Galeazzo, who brought the power and grandeur of Visconti to its highest point. He founded the library at Paris; the Cathedral of Milan, etc.; and conquered Padua, Verona, Vicenza, etc. In 1441, Filippo-Maria Visconti engaged the services of Francesco Sforza, to whom he gave his natural daughter Bianca in marriage; and on his death in 1447 the Visconti family was succeeded by that of Sforza in the lordship of the Milanese. と MATTEO VISCONTI
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Viscosity
stickiness; in physics, resistance of a fluid to relative change in its particles; capability of a solid to yield continually under stress.
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Viscount
a degree or title of nobility ranking next below an earl, and above a baron. It is the most recently established English title of nobility, lity, having been first conferred by letters patent from Henry VI. on John Lord Beaumont, in A. D. 1440. The title of viscount is frequently held in England as the second title of an earl, and is borne by the eldest son as a courtesy title during the life of his father. The coronet of a viscount of England is composed of a circle of gold, chased, having on the edge 12, 14 or 16 pearls; the cap of crimson velvet, turned up with ermine, and closed at the top with a rich tassel of gold.
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Viscum
the mistletoe; a genus of Loranthaceæ. Leaves opposite, whorled, or wanting; flowers unisexual; males with the calyx obsolete; four petals; ovate, fleshy, united at the base, and bearing each a single anther, adnate with its upper surface. Fertile flowers, with a superior calyx having an obscure margin; four erect, ovate, very minute petals, and a sessile stigma. Known species believed to be about 100; from hot and temperate climates.
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Vishnu
. See Brahma
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Visible Speech
the system of expressing speech sounds by written symbols, invented by Prof. Alexander Melville Bell during the years 1849-1864. Its fundamental principle is, says its author, "that all relations of sound are symbolized by relations of form, each organ and each mode of organic action having its appropriate symbol, and all sounds of the same nature produced at different parts of the mouth (such as t and d, b and p) being represented by a single symbol turned in a direction corresponding to the organic position." The shapes of these symbols not being founded on any existing alphabet, the system here can only be illustrated illustrated, in the absence of the peculiar fount, by two that bear an accidental likeness to our current letters-O, symbolizing that the throat is open, and C, that part of the mouth is contracted. Among the advantages claimed for visible speech by Professor Bell are its power of representing the exact sounds of foreign languages (even Zulu clicks), and the facilities offered by it toward teaching the illiterate and blind to read, and the deaf and dumb to speak. But though the first at least of these claims has been established by rigid tests, and is admitted by A. J. Ellis and other eminent phonologists, the system has not, as its inventor hoped, been taken up by the government. See Bell's "Visible Speech," "The Science of Universal Alphabetics" (London, 1867).
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Vit
VINCENZO DE, an Italian Latinist; born in Padua, Italy, in 1811. He was an ecclesiastic by profession, was a canon of Rovigo, and town librarian, when in 1850 he joined the brotherhood of Rosmini. On his jubilee in 1888 Leo XIII. sent him a gold medal. He edited Forcellini's "Complete Latin Lexicon" in six volumes, and wrote a supplemental seventh volume, giving in 1,000 pages in double columns all the words in recently discovered inscriptions or codices. His minor writings on history, archæology, and philology have been collected in a uniform edition published at Milan and Florence. His greatest original work is the "Onomasticon," or "Namebook," containing all proper names down to the 5th century. Thirty-six years' labor had just brought him to the end of O, clos- Vol. X ing the fourth volume, when he died, fact that their diet lacked the water Aug. 17, 1892.
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