Provisional Order
Provisional Order Is An Order Granted Under The Powers Conferred By An Act Of Parliament, By A Department Of The Government, By The Secretary Of State, Or By Sonic Other Authority, Whereby Certain Things Are Authorized To Be Done, Which Could Be Accom Plished Otherwise Only By An Act Of ...
Provisions
Provisions, Etc. Much Variety Is Comprehended Under These Terms: The First Is Generally Understood To Mean Fruits Preserved With Sugar Or Brandy; And The Latter, Such Articles Of Animal Or Vegetable Food As Are Used Ordinarily, But Which Are Preserved By Any Means Fot The Convenience Of Carriage, And For ...
Provost
Provost (lat. Prapogitus, Set Over), In Church Law, The Chief Dignitary Of A Cathedral Or Collegiate Church, From Which Use The Title Has Also Been Transferred To The Beads Of Other Similar Bodies, Whether Religious, Literary, Or Administrative. Properly, However, The Name Is Given To The Highest Dignitary In The ...
Pruning
Pruning, The Removal Of Branches From Fruit Or Forest Trees, In Order To The Greater Production Of Fruit, The Improvement Of The Timber, Or Purposes Of Ornament. In Prun Ing For Ornamental Purposes, Taste Must Chiefly Be Consulted, But Reference Must Be Made To What Has Been Too Little Regarded ...
Prunus Virginiana
Prunus Virginiana. See Choke-cherry, Ante. Priiiir Go Is A Non-contagious Affection Of The Skin, In Which Intense Itching Is The Most Prominent Symptom. Sometimes The Parts Affected Present No Marked Deviation From The Normal Type, But Most Commonly They Are Covered With Papulre, Which Are Nearly Of The Same Color ...
Prussia
Prussia (ger. Preussen), A Kingdom Embracing Nearly The Whole Of Northern Ger M:lily. It Is Bounded N. By The German Ocean, Jutland, And The Baltic; E. By Russia And Poland; S. By Austria, Saxony, Saxe-altenburg, Saxe-weimar, Gotha, And Others Of The Smaller German States, Bavaria, Ilesse-darmstadt, And Alsace-lorraine; W. By ...
Prynne
Prynne, Wili,ian, Noted As A Pamphleteer And Active Politician During The Reign Of Charles I., And The Subsequent Period Of The Commonwealth, Was Born Near Bath In The Year 1600. He Received His Early Education There, And Was Afterward Transferred To Oriel College, Oxford, Where, In 1620, Be Took His ...
Psalmody
Psalmody, In Its Widest Sense, Is The Singing Of The Psalms Of David And Other Sacred Songs; Hut From The Beginning Of The Reformation Period, The Term .has Been Restricted To The Singing Of Metrical Versions Of The Psalms To Short Simple Airs. Psalm T,inging Was Of Ancient Date Among ...
Psalms
Psalms (heb. Tehillim, Songs' Of Praise, Or Tolloth, Prayers; Jerome, Liter 11/pnom Rum), The Well-known Canonical Book Generally Ascribed To David. The Single Hymns Contained In The Book Are Variously Designated Either As "prayer" (tenn), As "praise" Crehillah), Or From Some Special Characteristic, " Song" (shin), Or A Song Of ...
Psammetichus
Psammetichus, The Name Of Three Kings Of Egypt, Of The 26th Dynasty, Distin Guished On The Monuments By Different Prenomeus, And Of Two Other Persons Of Ancient History. The First And Most Notable Psammetichus Was The Son Of Necho I. After The Defeat And Death Of His Father, He Fled ...
Pseitdoscope
Pseitdoscope (pseudos, False, And Skopein, To See), An Optical Instrument Invented By Prof. Wheatstone, And So Called From The Fact Of Its Exhibiting Objects, Viewed Through It, Under Aspects The Exact Converse Of Their Natural Appearance. Its Construction As Shown By The Annexed Figure: Abc, Two Rectangular Prisms Of Flint-glass, ...
Psoriasis
Psoriasis (from The Greek Word Psora, Which Signifies A Cutaneous Eruption, Sup Posed By Some To Be The Itch) Is Now Employed To Signify A Disease Characterized By Slight Elevations Of The Surface Of The Skin Covered With Whitish Scales. There Are Vari Ous Forms Of This Disorder, Such As ...
Psyche
Psyche (gr. Breath, Or Soul), A Creation Of The Later Mythology Of Greece, Or Perhaps We Should Rather Say, A Personification Of The Human Soul, Devised By The Later Poets. Appuleius (q.v.) Relates The Following Story About Her, Which Is Obviously Allegorical. Psyche Was The Youngest Of Three Daughters Of ...
Ptarmigan
Ptarmigan, Lagopus, A Genus Of Tetraonida, Differing From The True Grouse (q.v.) Chiefly In Having The Toes Thickly Clothed With Short Feathers As Well As The Legs (tarn). Hence The Name Lagopus, A Name Used By Pliny, From The Resemblance Of The Foot To That Of A Hare. The Bill ...
Pterodactyl
Pterodactyl (gr. Wing-finger), A Remarkable Genus Of Fossil Lizards, Peculiar To The Secondary Strata. Its Anomalous Structure Was Long A Puzzle To Comparative Anatomists. Blnmenhach Considered It A Palmipede, Or Web-footed Bird; While Its Original Describer. •oliini, And Other More Eminent Naturalists, Referred It To The Mammalia, Finding Its Near ...
Ptolemaic System
Ptolemaic System Of Astronomy, So Called From Ptolemy (q.v.), Its Chief Expounder, Was Originated, However, Long Before His Time, And Was, In Fact, Merely An Attempt To Reduce To A Scientific Form The Common And Primitive Notions Concerning The Motions Of The Heavenly Bodies. It Was Implicitly Adopted By Plato, ...
Ptolemy
Ptolemy, A. Celebrated Astronomer And Geographer, Whose Proper Name Is Clardius Prrolemzeus, Was A Native Of Egypt, Though It Is Uncertain Whether He Was. Born At Pelu Slum Or Ptolemais In The Thebaid. Nothing Is Known Of His Personal History, Except That He Flourished In Alexandria In 139 Am. And ...
Ptolemy Ii
Ptolemy Ii., Surnamed P Tim Adelpiius, Was The Son Of Ptolemy I. And Berenice. He Was Born, 309 B. C. , In The Island Of Cos. His Reign Is Remarkable Rather For The Suc Cessful Cultivation Of The Arts Of Peace Than Of The Practice Of War. Excepting A Contest ...
Ptolemy Iii
Ptolemy Iii., Surnamed E Liergetes, Succeeded His Father Philadelphus, And Reigned From 247 To 222 B.c. He Made War On The Kingdom Of Syria, To Avenge The Death Of His Sister Berenice, Who Had Been Murdered At The Instigation Of Laodice, For Mer Wife Of Antiochus. Lie Overran All The ...
Ptoveny I
Ptoveny I., Son Of Lagus, Is Also Known By His Surname Soreft, Or The Preserver. He Was Believed By Some To Be The Sou Of Philip Of Macedon, Because His Mother, Arsinoe, Had Been A Concubine Of That King, His Father Being A Macedonian Of Humble Station. Ptolemy Acted As ...
Puberty
Puberty, That Period Of Life At Which Sexual Development Takes Place. It Differs Somewhat Among Different Races And Nations, And Is Also Affected By The Climate, Taking Place Rather Earlier Between The Tropics Than In The Temperate Zones. As A General Rule The Period Is Later In Those Races And ...
Public Houses
Public-houses In England Are Known Under Two Classes, Viz., Ale-houses, Also Called Inns (q.v.), And Beer-houses. The Former Give Board And Lodging To Travelers, While The Latter Are Mere Shops For The Sale Of Beer To Be Consumed On Or Off The Premises.-1. An Ale-house Must Be First Licensed By ...
Public Records
Records, Public (lat. Recorded, To Contemporary Authenticated State Ments Of The Proceedings Of The :egislature, And The Judgments Of Those Higher Courts Of Law Which Are Distinguished As Courts Of Record. It Has Been A Subject Of Much Discussion What Constitutes A Record, And In A Looser Sense The Term ...
Publicani
Publica'ni (from List. Publicvm, That Which Is Public Or Belongs To The State), The Name Given By The Romans To Those Persons Who Farmed The Public Revenues (vectigalia). These Revenues Were Put Up To Auction By The Censors, And Were "sold" For A Period Of 5 Years. They Were Derived ...
Puerperal Fever
Puerperal Fever Is The Most Fatal Disease To Which Women In Childbed Are Liable. It Has Been Described Under Various Other Names Than That Which Is Now Assigned To It— As Childbed Fever, Peritoneal Fever, Etc. A Careful Investigation Of The Records Of More Than Two Centuries Shows That The ...
Puerperal Maria
Puerperal Maria Comprehends Many Forms And Degrees Of Mental Derangement. In The Experience Of Esquirol, These Forms Presented The Following Proportions: Of 92 Cases, 49 Exhibited Symptoms Of Mania; 85, Those Of Monomania; And 8, Those Of Dementia. The Points Of Agreement Between These Widely-differing Moral Phenomena Are, That They ...
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico, An Island In The West Indies, Belonging To Spain, Is One Of The Greater Antilles, And Lies E. Of Hayti Or St. Domingo, Lat. 17° 55 —18° :30' N., Long. 65' 39'-67' 11' W. It Is In Size Somewhat Less Than Jamaica, Being Fully 100 In, From E. ...
Puffin
Puffin, Fratercula, A Genus Of Birds Of The Auk (q.v.) Family, Alcadm, Having The Bill Shorter Than The Head, Very Much Compressed, Its Height At The Base Equal To Its Length, The Ridge Of The Upper Mandible As High As The Top Of The Head, Both Mandibles Arched, And Transversely ...
Pulley
Pulley, One Of The Mechanical Powers (q.v.), Consists Of A Wheel With A Groove Cut All Round Its Circumference, And Movable On An Axis; The Wheel, Which Is Commonly Called A Sheave, Is Often Placed Inside A Hollow Oblong Mass Of Wood Called A Block, And To The Sides Of ...
Pulse
Pulse (lat. Putsus, A Pushing Or Beating). The Phenomenon Known As The Arterial Pulse Or Arterial Pulsation Is Due To The Distention Of The Arteries Consequent Upon The Intermittent Injection Of Blood Into Their Trunks, And Time Subsequent Contraction Which Results From The Elasticity Of Their Walls. It Is Perceptible ...
Pumping Engine
Pumping Engine, An Engine Especially Designed For Pumping. A Pump May He Driven By 'an Ordinary Steam-engine Which Also Drives Other Machinery, But In The Pumping-engine The Pump And Steam-engine Are Inseparably Connected, And Are Confined To The Act Of There Are A Good Many Small Machines Of This Kind ...
Pumps
Pumps Are Machines For Raising Water And Other Fluids To A Higher Level. They Are Divided Into Several Classes According To Their Mode Of Action. Of These, As The Most Important, We Shall Describe In Detail The Following; 1. The Lift Or Suction-pump; 2. The Lift And Force-pump; 3. The ...
Punch
Punch, The Chief Character In A Popular Comic Exhibition Performed By Means Of Puppets (q.v.). Various Accounts Are Given Of The Origin Of The Name. The Exhibition Is Of Italian Origin, And The Italian Name Is Pulcinella, Or Policinella. According To One Story, A Peasant, A Well-known Character In The ...
Punch_2
Punch, A Tool For Cutting Circular Or Other Shaped Pieces Out Of Metal, Wood, Or Other Materials. The Simplest Form Of This Instrument Consists Of A Piece Of Steel Formed At One End Into A Hollow Cylinder, The End Of Which Is Ground To A Very Sharp Cutting Edge. The ...
Punct Cation
Pu.nct Cation (ante), The Division Of Any Written Or Pri Nted Composition Into Words, Phrases, And Sentences By Certain Marks, Commonly Called Punctuation Points. This Process Enables The Writer To Express His Ideas More Clearly, And The Reader To Understand More Readily And More Fully. Material Errors In The Arrangement ...
Puppet
Puppet, A Name (derived From The Lat. Pupas, A Child Or Boy, Fr, Poupee, A Doll) Signifying A Childlike Image. The Italic Funtoccini (from Fantino, A Child), And The French Marionettes (q.v.) Are Other Names For Puppets. Puppet-plays, Or Exhibitions In Which The Parts Of The Different Characters Are Taken ...
Puraita
Purait'a (literally "old," From The Purl, Before, Past), Is The Name Of That Class Of Religious Works Which, Besides The Tantras (q.v.) Is The Main Foundation Of The Actual Popular Creed Of The Brahminical Hindus (see Hindu Religion Under India). According To The Popular Belief, These Works Were Compiled By ...
Purbeck Beds
Purbeck Beds, A Group Of Strata Forming The Upper Members Of The Oolitic Period (q.v.), And So Named Because They Are Well Developed In The Peninsula Called The Isle Of Urbeek (q.v.), S. Of Poole Estuary In Dorsetshire. They Are, Like The Wealden Beds Above Them, Chiefly Fresh-water Formations; But ...
Purchase System
Purchase-system, A Highly Unpopular And Much-misunderstood Arrangement In The British Army, By Which A Large Proportion—more Than Half—of The First Appoint Ments Of Officers And Their Subsequent Promotion Used To Be Effected. It Dates From The First Formation Of An English Standing Army, And Was Formally Recognized In The Reign ...
Purgatives
Purgatives Are Medicines Which, Within Definite And Comparatively Short Time After Exhibition, Produce The Evacuation Of The Bowels. The Remedies Included Under This Head Have, However, Various Modifications Of Action, Which Adapt Them For The Ful Fillment Of Different Therapeutic Applications. They Are Divided By Pereira Into Five Groups. Viz.: ...
Purgatory
Purgatory (lat. Purgatorium., From Purge, I Cleanse), Is The Name Given, In The Roman Catholic And Oriental Churches, To A Place Of Purgation, In Which, According To Their Religious System, Souls After Death Either Are Purified From Venial Sins (peeetea Renalia), Or Undergo The Temporal Punishment Which, After The Guilt ...
Puritans
Puritans, A Name First Given, According To Fuller In 1564, And According To Strype In 1569, To Those Clergymen Of The Church Of England Who Refused To Conform To Its Liturgy, Ceremonies, And Discipline As Arranged By Archbishop Parker And His Episcopal Coadjutors. But In Point Of Fact, The Puritan ...
Purple Colors
Purple Colors. Painters In Oil And Water Colors Produce The Various Shades Of Purple By The Admixture Of Pure Red And Pure Blue Colors. Dyers Obtain This Color From Various Sources, All Of Which Are Curious And Interesting. From A Very Early Period, Purple Has Been One Of The Most ...
Purse Crab
Purse-crab, Dirges, A Genus Of Of The Order Decapoda, And Sub-order Anomoura (see Citan), Allied To Hermit-crabs (q.v.), But Having The Abdomen Or Tail Shorter And Almost Orbicular, Its Under Surface Soft And Membranous, Its Upper Surface Covered With Strong Plates, Which Overlap One Another As In Lobsters. The First ...
Pursuivant
Pursuivant (fr. Poursuicant, Follower), The Third And Lowest Order Of Heraldic Officers. The Office Was Instituted As A. Novitiate, Or State Of Probation Through Which ;he Offices Of Herald And King-at Arms Were Ordinarily To Be Attained, Though It Has Been Held That A Herald Or King-at-arms May Be Made ...
Put In Bay Islands
Put-in-bay Islands, At The W. End Of Lake Erie, Is A Group Of Ten Islands, Put-in,bay, Formerly Known As South Bass And Bass Isle, Middle Bass Alias Floral Isle, North Bass Alias Isle Of St. George, Rattlesnake, Sugar, Green Alias Strontian, Glacial Alias Starve Island, Ballast, Buckeye, And Gibraltar. The ...
Putrefaction
Putrefaction Is The Term Applied To The Spontaneous Decomposition Of Organic Sub 'stances, When Such Decomposition Is Accompanied By An Offensive Odor. In Other Respects It May Be Regarded As Identical With Fermentation (q.v.). In The Process Of Putrefaction, Organic Compounds Of A Higher Order Are Resolved Into Lower Organic ...
Pyramid
Pyramid, A Structure Of The Shape Of The Geometric Figure So Called, Erected In Different Parts Of The Old And New World, The Most Important Being The Pyramids Of Egypt And Mexico. Those Of Egypt Were Considered One Of The Seven Wonders Of The World, Are 70 In Number, Of ...
Pyrenees
Pyrenees, The Name Of That Mountaiu-range Which; Separating France From Spain, Extends 270 M. In Length, And From 80 To 70 M. In Breadth, From The Gulf Of Poses, In The Mediterranean, To The S.e. Corner Of The Bay Of Biscay. This Mountain-system, Covering An Area Estimated At 12,600 Sq.m., ...
Pyrenees_2
Pyrenees, Hautes, A Department Of France. Lying E. Of The Basses-pyrenees, Is A Part Of The Old Province Of Gascony. The Hautes-pyrenees, Which, As Its Name Implies, Contains The Loftiest Summits Of The Pyrenean Chain, Is Divided Into The Three Arrondisse Ments Of Tarbes, Argeles, And Bagneres, And The Chief ...
Pyrites
Pyrites, A Name Employed By Mineralogists To Designate A Large Group Or Family Of Minerals, Compounds Of Metals With Sulphur, Or With Arsenic, Or With Both. They Are Crystalline, Hard, Generally Brittle, And Generally Yellow. The Name Pyrites Originally Belonged To The Sulphuret Of Iron, Known As Iron Pyrites; And ...
Pyrometer
Pyrometer (gr. Pyr, Fire, And Matron, A Measure) Is A Term Originally Applied By Muschenbroek In 1731, To An Instrument Which He Invented For Measuring The Changes Produced In The Dimensions Of Solid Bodies By The Application Of Heat. It Is, However, Now Applied To Any Instrument The Object Of ...
Pyroteciiny
Py'roteciiny, The Art Of Making Fireworks, Is Of Unknown Antiquity. It Was Prac Ticed Among The Chinese From The Earliest Times, And Has Attained With Them A Perfec Tion Unknown In Other Countries. So Much Is This The Case, That They Treat As Insignifi Cant The Most Brilliant Of Our ...
Pyrrhon
Pyrrhon (lat. Pyrrho), The Founder Of A School Of Greek Skepticism, Named After Him, Was A Native Of Elis, And Was Born In The First Half Of The 4th C. B.c. In His Youth He Is Said To Have Been A Painter, But Was Subsequently Attracted To Philosophy By The ...
Pyrrhus
Pyrrhus, King Of Epirus, B. About 318 B. C., A Greek Warrior, Whose Personal Bravery And Passion For Adventurous Exploits Equals Anything Recorded Of The Knights Of Chivalry, Was The Son Of Ieacides, Who Succeeded To The Throne Of Epirus By The Death Of His Cousin, Alexander, 326 B.c. Alexander ...
Pythagorag
Pythag'orag. The Life Of This Celebrated Man, The Founder Of What Is Known At; The Italic School Of Philosophy, Has Been So Greatly Obscured By The Mass Of Legends And Incredible Stories Which Gathered In Later Ages Round His Name That It Is Very Difficult To Arrive At Anything Like ...
Python
Python, A Genus Of Serpents Of The Family Boidcs (see Boa), Differing From The True Boas In Having The Plates On The Under Surface Of The Tail Double. The Tip Of The Muzzle Is Plated; The Lips Are Grooved. The Species Are All Natives Of The Old World. They Are ...
Quadrature Of Tue Circle
Quadrature Of Tue Circle. This Is One Of The Grand Problems Of Antiquity, Which, Unsolved And Probably Unsolvable, Continue To Occupy Even In The Present Day The Minds Of Many Curious Speculators. The Trisection Of An Angle, The Duplication Of The Cube, And The Perpetual Motion Have Found, In Every ...
Quadrille
Quadrille' Is A Card Game, Which, As Its Name, Denotes, Is Played By Four Persons. The Number Of Cards Employed Is Forty, The Tens, Nines, And Eights Being Discarded From The Pack. The Rank And Order Of The Cards In Each Suit Vary According As They Are Or Are Not ...
Quadrumana
Quadrumana (ante). This Order Comprises The Apes, Monkeys, Baboons, Lemurs, Etc., And Is Characterized As Follows: The Hallux (innermost Toe Or Thumb Of The Hind ! Limb) Is Separated From The Other Digits And Is Opposable To Them, Making The Hind-feet Really Hands. The Pollex (innermost Toe Or Thumb Of ...
Quail
Quail, Coturnix, A Genus Of Gallinaceous Birds Of The Family Tetraonidte, Nearly Allied 'to Partridges, But Having A More Slender Bill, A Shorter Tail, Longer Wings, No Spur, And No Red Space Above The Eye. The First And Second Quills Of The Wing Are About As Long As The Third, ...
Quantification Of Tive Predicate
Quantification Of Tive Predicate, A Phrase Belonging To Logic. And Introduced' By Sir W. Hamilton To Express The Characteristic Of Certain Logical Doctrines Of His. Respecting The Proposition And The Syllogism. According To Thearistotelian Logic. Propositions Are Divided. According To Their Quality, Into Affirmative And Negative (" The Sun Has ...
Quarantine
Quarantine (from The Fr. Quarantaine, A Period Of 40 Days) Is A Forced From Communication With The Shore, Which Ships Are Compelled To Undergo When They Are Last From Some Port Or Country Where Certain Diseases Held To Be Infectious, As Yellow Fever, Plague, Or Cholera, Are Or Have Been ...
Quarry
Quarry (fr, Carriere). When Any Useful Rock Is Worked In An Open Manner At The Surface Of The Earth, The Excavation Is Called A Quarry. Quarrying Differs Little From Mining In Principle, Except That The Latter Is Essentially An Underground Operation. From A Very Remote Period, Famous Granite Quarries Have ...
Quarter Days
Quarter-days Are The Days Adopted Between Landlord And Tenant For Entering Or Quitting Lands Or Houses And For Paying Rent. The Origin Of These Periods Is No Doubt Due Entirely To Convenience, And Though In England They Are Unknown To The Common Law, Yet Now They Are Almost Part And ...
Quarter Sessions
Quarter-sessions, In Eugland, Is A Court Or Meeting Of Justices Of The Peace, Who Assemble Every Quarter Of The Year, For Judicial As Well As Miscellaneous Business. The Meetings Are Fixed By Statute To Be Held Iu The First Full Week After Dec. 28, Mar. 31, June 24, And Oct. ...
Quartering
Quartering, In Heraldry, Is The Bearing Of Two Or More Coats On A Shield Divided By Horizontal And Perpendicular Lines, A Practice Not To Be Found In The Earlier Heraldry, End Little In Use Till The 15th Century. Arms May Be Quartered For Various. Reasons. 1. To Indicate Dominion. A ...
Quartermaster
Quartermaster. In The Army, The Is A Staff Officer Of High_ Rank, Whose Duty It Is To Arrange The Marches, Quarters, And Internal Arrangements Of The Army To Which He Belongs. Every Army Has Some Officer Of This Department; From A Brigade With A Deputy-assistant-quartermaster-general, Receiving £173 7s. 6d. A ...
Quartz
Quartz, A Mineral, Which Is Essentially Silicic Acid, Or Oxide Of Silicon (see Sitacon), Although It Is Often Combined Or Mixed With Other Substances. It Is A Very Abundant And Widely Diffused Mineral. It Is Almost The Sole Constituent Of Quartz Rock, In Which Gold Is Far More Frequently Found ...
Quassia
Quassia, A Genus Of Trees And Shrubs Of The Natural Order Simarubacea (q.v.); Having Hermaphrodite Flowers, With Five Petals Combined Into A Tube, And Much Longer Than The Small Calyx, Ten Stamens, Five Germeus, And Only Cue Style; The Fruit Composed Of Five Drupes. Quassia Amara Is A Native Of ...
Quaternions
Quater'nions, The Name Given By Its Inventor, Sir W. R. Hamilton (q.v.), To One Of The Most Remarkable Of The Mathematical Methods Or Calculi, Which Have So Enormously Extended The Range Of Analysis, While Simplifying Its Application To The Most Formidable Problems In Geometry And Physics. It Would Be Inconsistent ...
Quebec
Quebec', The Most Important Military Position In The Dominion Of Canada, Is Situated On A Steep Promontory At The Junction Of The River St. Lawrence And St. Charles, In Lat. 46° 48' N., Long. 71° 12' West. It Is Distant From Liverpool About 2,070 M., Is 180 M. N.e. Of ...
Quebec
Quebec (ante), A Province Of The Dominion Of Canada, Formerly Canada East. It Is Situated Between Lat. 45° And 53° 30' N., And Long: 57° 8' And 79° 30' W., And Is Bounded On The Ii. By Labrador And Hudson's Bay; On The E. By Labrador And The ,gulf Of ...
Queen
Queen (sax. Men, Woman; Gr. Gyne, Woman; Sansk, Goal, Mother, From Gan, To Generate), In Its Primary Signification, The King's Consort, Who Has In All Countries Been Invested With Privileges Not Belonging To Other Married Women. The English Queen, Unlike Otherwives, Can Make A Grant To Her Husband, And Receive ...
Queen Annes Bounty
Queen Anne's Bounty, The Name Given To A Fund Appropriated To Increase The Incomes Of The Poorer Clergy Of England, Created Out Of The First-fruits • And Tenths, Which Before The Reformation Formed Part Of The Papal Exactions From The Clergy. The First-fruits Are The First Whole Year's Profit Of ...
Queens Counsel
Queen's Counsel Are Certain Barristers Who Receive From Her Majesty A Patent Giving Them Preandience Over Their Brethren, And But For Which They Would Rank Only According To Seniority Of Their Standing As Barristers. The Advantage Of Appointing Queen's Counsel Is This, That It Enables The Most Able Or Successful ...
Queens County
Queen's County, An Inland Co. Of The Province Of Leinster, Ireland, Is Bounded N: By The King's County, E. By Kildare And Carlow, S. By Kilkenny, And W. By Tipperary And King's County. Area, 424,851 Acres, Of Which 303,153 Are Arable. The Population, Which, Iu 1831, Was 90,750, Had Fallen ...
Queensland
Queens'land. This Prosperous British Colony Occupies The Whole Of The North Eastern Portion Of Australia, Commencing At A Point Of The E. Coast About 400 M. N. Of Syd Ney, Called Point Danger, In Let. 28° 8' South. The Greater Port-ion Of The Southern Bound Ary-line Is Formed By The ...