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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Single-source entries: W (1)
These 11 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Waag, Waahoo, Waal.
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 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
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.
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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
2026 Editor's Note: This page uses language about race that was commonplace when the book was published and is offensive by today's standards. The text has been left exactly as it was printed, rather than cut or softened, so that the historical record — including how ordinary such language once was — is preserved. (Ed: ET 2026-07-22) 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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Waddington
WILLIAM HENRY, a French statesman statesman; born in Paris, Dec. 11, 1826; was educated at Rugby and Trinity College, Cambrige, and took a classical first-class, with a chancellor's medal, in 1849. He returned to France, and devoted himself to the study of antiquities, extending his journeys to Asia Minor, Syria, and Cyprus. In 1865 he was elected to the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres. In February, 1871, he was returned by Aisne to the National Assembly, giving a steady support to Thiers. From 1876 till 1885 he sat as senator for Aisne. He served as minister of Public Instruction in 1873 (for a few days only) and in 1876- 1877 as minister of foreign affairs, plenipotentiary at the Berlin Congress (1878), president of the Council (1879), and was ambassador at London from 1883 to 1893. He died Jan. 13, 1894.
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Waddington (GEORGE an Engson of lish)
GEORGE, an Engson of lish educator; born Sept. 7, 1793; Rev. George Waddington, vicar of Tuxford, Nottinghamshire. A brilliant university career Cambridge warded by a fellowship in Trinity College; and after several years of foreign vicarage of Martravel he received the sham in Yorkshire. In 1840 he was made dean of Durham, and in the following year warden of Durham University. His chief works are: "Journal of a Visit to Some Parts of Ethiopia" (1822); "A Visit to Greece in 1823 and 1824" (1825); "Present Prospects of the Greek or Oriental Church" (1829); "History of the Church from the Earliest Ages to the Reformation" (13 vols. 1835); "History of the Reformation on the Continent" (3 vols. 1843). He died July 20, 1869.
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