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Waag

a large river of Hungary, rising in the Carpathian Mountains, and after a course of 200 miles, joining the Danube at Komorn.

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Waahoo

an Indian name applied to three different plants. 1. The burning bush. A shrub bearing bright scarlet fruit like that of the bittersweet, to which it is related. The waahoo may be told from the latter by the brighter color of its fruit and the fact that it is a bush, not a vine. The bark is an old-fashioned remedy. 2. The barberry of the Pacific Coast having medicinal properties like those of the bark of the waahoo. 3. The waahoo elm or winged elm. Its branches are ridged with corky wings. The wood is tougher than that of the white elm and is used in the South for hubs.

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Waal

THE, a branch of the Rhine, the main waterway of the larger Rhine vessels, which above Arnhem branches off into the province of Gelderland, and unites near Workum with the Maas.

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Wabash

a city and county-seat of Wabash co., Ind.; on the Wabash river, and on the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis and the Wabash railroads; 75 miles N. E. of Indianapolis. It is the trade and shipping center of a 261 rich agricultural region. Here are a court house, a street railroad and electric light plants, a hospital, National and other banks, and several daily and weekly newspapers. The city has manufactories of carriages, shoes, flour, hats, paper, woolen goods, etc. Pop. (1910) 8,687; (1920) 9,872.

a river of the United States, which rises in the N. W. of Ohio, winds across Indiana, forms the boundary between Indiana and Illinois, and falls into the Ohio, of which it is the largest N. tributary, after a course of 550 miles. It is navigable for steamboats to Lafayette.

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Wabash College

an educational non-sectarian institution in Crawfordsville, Ind.; founded in 1832; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 25; students 219; president, G. L. Mackintosh, LL. D.

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Waco

a city and county-seat of McLennan co., Tex.; at the confluence of the Bosque and Brazos rivers, and on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas, the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe, and other railroads: 95 miles N. E. of Austin. It contains State and Federal court houses, Baylor University (Bapt.); the Academy of the Sacred Heart (R. C.), the Paul Quinn College (A. M. E.), United States Government building, public library, National, State, and private banks, and several daily and weekly newspapers. Here also are waterworks, gas and electric lights, street railroads, etc. Waco is the chief interior cotton entrepôt of Texas. It has flour mills, foundries, and manufactories of cotton and woolen goods, ice, lumber, iron, brass, and various other articles. Pop. (1910) 26,425; (1920) 38,500.

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Wadai

or WADAY, formerly an extensive and powerful negro state in the central Sudan; between Kanem and Bagirmi in the W. and Darfur in the E.; area, 170,000 square miles; pop. estimated at 1,000,000. It consists principally of an elevated plateau, very fertile in some parts, producing abundantly maize, millet, indigo, cotton, etc. Ivory vory and in. The The inslaves are also largely dealt habitants are warlike, and their sultan exercises tributary rights over several neighboring settlements. The prevailing religion is Mohammedan. Its sovereignty passed to France in 1903. Capital, Abeshr.

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Wadding

LUKE, an Irish ecclesiastic; born in Waterford, Ireland, Oct. 16, 1588; after studying theology at the Lisbon Jesuit Seminary, entered the Franciscan order (1607), and became Professor of Divinity in the University of Salamanca. As chaplain to an embassy despatched to treat concerning the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception, he went to Rome in 1618, and settling there, founded the Irish Franciscan College of St. Isidore (1625), acted as papal councilor in the great controversy with the Jansenists, whose tenets he shared at first, but presently renounced; and was procurator of his order (1630-1634) and vice-commissary (1645-1648). He refused a cardinal's hat, and died in Rome, Nov. 18, 1657, having himself composed the "Annals of Minor Ordinances" (8 vols. 1625-1656; new ed. 22 vols. 1731- 1747), and "Scriptures of Minor Ordinances" (1660; new ed. 1806), and edited Calasio's posthumous "Biblical Concordance" (4 vols. 1621) and the works of Duns Scotus (12 vols. 1620).

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Wadham College

a college connected with Oxford University, England; founded in 1610 by Dorothy, widow of Nicholas Wadham, of Mayfield, Somersetshire, England, for a warden, 15 fellows, 15 sch scholars, 2 chaplains, and 2 clerks. There are now 8 fellows, 18 scholars, and some 100 under-graduates. Wadham College, whose library is rich in rare Spanish books, presents to 10 livings.

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Wadi

in Palestine and Arabia, either a river or river valley, or the basin of a torrent. Rehan thinks this word was adopted by the Greeks and corrupted into casis. It has passed into the Spanish guad, with which many of the Spanish river names begin; thus Wadi-l-Kebir (Arab. "great river") appears as Guadalquivir, Wadi-l-hajarah ("river of stones") as Guadalaxara. The ravines of Malta commonly go by the name of vyed or wied, a corrupted form of wadi.

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Wadlin

HORACE GREELY, an American statistician; born in Wakefield, Mass., Oct. 2, 1851; was educated at public and private schools, and studied architecture in Salem and Boston, Mass.; was an architect in the latter city in 1875-1879. He then became special agent for the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor, and in 1888 was made its chief. He held a seat in the Massachusetts Legislature in 1884-1888; was supervisor of the United States census in 1890 and 1900, and of the State census in 1895. His publications include: "Reports on the. Sta Statistics of Labor of Massachusetts" (12 vols. 1888-1901); Annual Statistics of Manufactures of Massachusetts (14 vols. 1886-1901); "The Decennial Census of Massachusetts" (7 vols. 1895); "Carroll, Davidson Wright, a Memorial" (1911). 1

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Wafer

The sacred wafer is often used by devil-worshippers for purposes of profanation. (See Devil-worship.) There was found in the house of the notorious witch, Dame Alice Kyteler (q.v.), a wafer of sacramental bread, bearing thereon. the name of the Devil .

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Wagram

a village of Lower Austria; on the left bank of the Rossbach; 12 miles N. E. of Vienna; famous for the great battle in 1809 between the French under Napoleon and the Austrians under the Archduke Charles, each about 15,000 strong. The battle was well contested, but the result gave Napoleon a decisive victory, which was followed up by an armistice and the treaty of Schönbrunn (Oct. 14).

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