These 11 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Woodberry, Woodbine, Woodcock.
A moulder's device for making fast to a pattern, consisting of an ordinary screw connected by welding to a stem, with an eye turned and welded to the body. A small hole is bored, which admits the screw without splitting the pattern, and the eye serves as a handle by which to turn the screw and lift the pattern. See SPIKE.
Only in The Encyclopedia of Founding
Wood naphtha; is a product of the distillation of wood. Chiefly used for dissolving the rosins in making varnish. It is also called methylic alcohol. See NAPHTHA.
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GEORGE EDWARD, American poet; born in Beverley, ., May 12, 1855; was graduated at an Mass., ass Harvard College in 1877; was Professor of English Literature in Nebraska State University in 1877-1878 and 1880-1882; of Comparative Literature, Columbia, 1891. He retired from this post, 1904. Besides articles in magazines and reviews, he wrote: a "History of Wood Engraving" (1883); "Life of Edgar Allan Poe" (1885); and "The North Shore Watch, and Other Poems" (1890); "Studies in Letters and Life" (1890); "Heart of Man" (1899); "Wild Eden" (1899); "Makers of Literature" (1900); "The Appreciation of Literature" (1907); "The Inspiration of Poetry" (1910); "Two Phases of Cri Criticism" (1918); "The Roamer and Other Poems" (1919). He published also an edition of Shelley (1892), and one of Poe (1895), with E. C. Stedman.
Only in Collier's New Encyclopedia
. See Honeysuckle ; Virginia Creeper
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in ornithology, the Scolornithology, opax rusticula (the rusticola of Linnæus is a misscript); distributed over Europe, the N. of Asia, and as far E. as Japan, visiting Europe in October and departing in March, though some remain to breed, and the number is yearly increasing. The woodcock is about 13 inches long; upper surface varied with ruddy, yellowish, and ash tints, and marked with great black spots; lower parts yellowish-red with brown zigzags; quills striped with red and black on their external barbs, tail feathers terminated above with gray and below with white. The female is rather larger and stouter than the male.
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STEWART LYNDON an American lawyer; born in New York City, Sept. 3, 1835; served with gallantry in the Civil War, retiring with the rank of Brigadier-General of volunteers by brevet; on the cessation of hostilities he resumed the practice of law; in 1866 was elected lieutenant-governor of New York on the ticket with Reuben E. Fenton; in 1872 member of Congress from the 3d Congressional District (Brooklyn); in 1877 appointed United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. In 1897 he was appointed minister to Spain, which post he held till the beginning of the Spanish- American War in 1898. He died in 1913.
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a village in Barnstable co., Mass.; on Buzzards Bay; and on the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad, 72 miles S. E. of Boston. It is the seat of one of the most important stations of the United States Fisheries Commission, where lobsters, sea bass, cod, and other food fishes are propagated. Besides an extensive fish hatchery, the station is equipped with an excellent marine biological laboratory, in which a corps of efficient teachers annually give instruction to a large number of students. Woods Hole has also long been celebrated as a harbor of refuge for shipping.
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a market town of Oxfordshire, England, on the Glyme, 7 miles N. N. W. of Oxford; has a chapel mostly rebuilt in 1785, but retaining fragments of 12th century work. The glory of the place is Blenheim Palace, in whose park, laid out by Capability Brown, the tiny Glyme is spanned by a mighty bridge, then widens into an artificial lake, while the trees are ranged as were the troops at Marlborough's victory. The palace itself, designed by Vanbrugh, covers seven acres, and is a heavy, imposing pile, with rich art collections, though its "Titian Gallery" was destroyed by fire in 1861. Glove sewing is the leading industry of Woodstock. The legends of Fair Rosamond's labyrinth and murder by Queen Eleanor, of Ælfred's and Chaucer's residence at Woodstock, must be abandoned; but as a royal manor from immemorial times Woodstock has played a part in history. Here Æthelred held a gemót, Malcolm and Rhys paid homage, Edward the Black Prince was born, and Elizabeth Mary. Here, too, was kept in ward by by " disturbed the Parliathe "just Devil Devil mentary commissioners, as told in Scott's romance, and Rochester made an edifying end. Lastly, in 1704, came the grant to the victor of Blenheim, and the ruthless demolition of the ancient manor house.
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ROBERT SIMPSON, PSON, an American scientist; born in Rochester, Mich., in 1849. He graduated from tment of the Unithe Engineering Department 1872. From that versity of Michigan in 187 year until 1882 he was assistant engineer of the United States Lake Survey. tronomer, From 1884 to 1890 he was astronomer, geographer of the geographer, and chief g United States Geological Survey. He was an assistant of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey from 1890 to 1893, and from that year until 1905 professor of mechanics and mathemati- University. cal physics at Columbia Univ From 1895 to 1905 he was dean of the School of Pure Science at that university. In the latter year he became the sident three institution of Carr Washington. From 1915 he was a member of the Naval Consulting Board. He was also a member of many scientific societies. He published monographs, reports, and memoirs on scientific subjects.
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an early process in woolen manufacture for disentangling or tearing apart the tussocks of wool, woo and laying the fibers parallel, preparatory to spinning. It is only the short staple wools that are submitted to this operation, the long staple wools being combed.
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a sort of blood poisoning, to which handlers of wool, alpaca, mohair, and similar substances are subject. Pustules appear on the arms. Death sometimes follows. The disease is thought to be due to a rod-shaped bacillus or bacterium known to medical men as anthrax. Sometimes the germs rise in the dust from the wool and are taken into the lungs. The rapid development of a poison often causes death. The germs may be killed by subjecting wool to heat for several hours, or by disinfecting it. Wool handlers may also be rendered immune by inoculation.
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