Reformatory Schools
Reformatory Schools. The First Institution To Which Queen Victoria Gave Her Name Was A Reformatory For Girls, Established At Chiswick In 1834, Under The Mane Of The Victoria Asylum. It Was The First Of Its Kind In England; But As Early As 1788, The Germ Of The Reformatory Movement May ...
Reformed Church In America
Reformed Church In America (duren), Formerly Called `the,reformed Protestant Dutch Church In North America," Is A Body Of Christians In The United States Composed Of Etzcendants Of Settlers From Holland. They Claim The Honor Of Establishing The First Protestant. Church Organization, The First Day-school, And The First Theological Seminary, On ...
Reformed Church In The
Reformed Church In The United States (germax) Was Founded By Emigrants From Those Provinces Of Germany In Which The Reformed Church Prevailed. Driven By Persecution At Home And Encouraged By William Penn's Offered Gift Of Land. A Large Number Of Them Settled In Pennsylvania In The Early Part Of The ...
Reformed Episcopal Church
Reformed Episcopal Church, Organized In New York City, Dec. 2, 1873, With 8 Clergymen And 20 Laymen, All Of Whom Bad Been Or Were At The Time Ministers And Laymen In The Protestant Episcopal Church Identified With The " Evangelical " Or "low Church" Party. One Of Them, George David ...
Reformed Presbyterians Camerontass
Reformed Presbyterians (camerontass, Ante) Were Found In Pennsyl Vannia 1743. At Which Time They Met At Middle Octorara, And Renewed Their Subscription To The Old Scottish " Covenant." In 1752 The Rev. John Cuthbertson. Sent Over By The Church Of Scotland, Became Their Minister, And In 1774, In Connection With ...
Refrigerants
Refrigerants. This Term Is Applied In Medicine Both To Internal And External Cooling Remedies. The Medicines Of This Class Prescribed For Internal Use Cause A Refresh Ing Feeling And A Sensation Of Coolness Throughout The System, Although They Do Not In Reality Diminish The Temperature Of The Body. Their Principal ...
Refrigerating
Refrigerating Ffiachines. Under The Head Ice, Some Notice Is Given Of Machines By Which It Can Be Prepared But Tis The Practical Importance Of Refrigerating Apparatus Is Daily Increasing, We Propose To Give Here A Fuller Sketch Of One Or Two Kinds. The Ice Making Machine Of Carre & Co. ...
Refrigeration
Refrigera'tion O• Titf1 Earth. That The Earth Is At Present Losing Heat, Is An Immediate Consequence Of The Observed Fact, That The Temperature Of Its Crust Increases As We Descend; For, In Any Conducting Body, The Flux Of Heat Is Always From Warmer To Colder Parts; And The Rate At ...
Refugee
Refugee' (fr. Refugie), A Name Given To Persons Who Have Fled From Religious Or Political Persecution In Their Own Country, And Taken Refuge In Another. The Term Was First Applied To Those Protestants Who Found An Asylum In Britain And Elsewhere At Two Different Periods, First During The Flemish Persecutions ...
Regalia
Regalia, The Ensigns Of Royalty, Including, More Particularly The Apparatus Of A Coronation. The Regalia Of England Were, Prior To The Reformation, In The Keeping Of The Monks Of Westminster Abb"ey, And They Arc Still Presented To The Sovereign At Coronation By The Dean And Prebendaries Of That Church. During ...
Regelation
Regela'tion. This Is An Exceedingly Ill-chosen Term For A Somewhat Obscure Pha Nomenon, Inasmuch As It Implies A Previous State Which May Not Have Existed. Unfor Tunately, The Term Has Come Into General Use, And We Must Make The Best Of It. The Principal Fact To Be Explained Is The ...
Regeneration
Regeneration Is A Theological Expression Denoting The Spiritual Change Which Passes On All Men In Becoming Christians. There Are Various Interpretations Of The Mode And Meaning Of This Change, Bu T Its Necessity In Some Shape Or Another May Be Said To Be Admitted By All Branches Of The Christian ...
Regent
Regent (lat. Re'o, I Govern), One Who Exercises The Power Without Having The Name Of A King. In A Hereditary Monarchy There Are Various Circumstances Which May Neces Sitate The Delegation Of The Sovereign Power—as The Devolution Of The Crown On A Minor Too Young To Be Intrusted With The ...
Regiment
Regiment, In All Modern Armies, Is A Colonel's Command, And The Largest Permanent Association Of Soldiers. Regiments May Be Combined Into Brigades, Brigades Into Divi Sions, Stud Divisions Into Armies; But These Combinations Are But Tempora•, While In The Regiment The Same Officer.; Serve Continually, And In Command Of The ...
Regiomontanus
Regiomontanus, The Name Adopted By An Early German Mathematician, Called Johann Probably Because He Was A Native Of Khnigsbcrg (of Which Regiomontanns Seems Intended As A Latin Equivalent), Where Lie Was Born June 6, 1436. Which Konigs Berg, However, Is To Be Understood Is A Disputed Point Among His Biographers, ...
Registration Of Deeds And
Registration Of Deeds And Writs, In The Law Of Scotland, Is An Important Feature Of The Administration Of The Law. The General Registration Is Authorized Either By Virtue Of A Clause Of Registration Inserted In A Particular Deed, Or Under The Old Act Of Parliament Of 1698, C. 4, Which ...
Reid
Reid, Wit Rrer.aw, B. Ohio, 1837; Graduated In 1856 At Miami University; Was Super Intendent Of Public Schools In South Charleston, Ohio, And Then Editor Of The Xenia News. Which He Purchased About 185s, And Which Was One Of The Earliest Newspapers In The West To Advocate Mr. Lincoln For ...
Reindeer
Reindeer, Ceraus Tarandus Or Tarandus Rangifer, A Species Of Deer (q.v.). A Native Chiefly Of The Arctic Regions; By Far The Most Valuable And Important Of All The Species Of Deer, And The Only One Which Has Been Thoroughly Domesticated And Brought Into Service By Man. It'is Found Wild In ...
Relapsing Fever
Relapsing Fever Is One Of The Three Great Species Of Continued Fever Common In Great Britain, The Two Others Being Typhus And Typhoid. Although The Disease Has Been Accurately Described Physicians During The Last Century (since 1739), Its Present Name Was Given To It Only About 1850 By Dr. Benner. ...
Relics
Relics (gr. Leipsana, Lat. Religuia3, Remains), The Name Given In Theological And Historical Nomenclature To What May Be In General Described As The Personal Memorials Of Those Among The Dead Who Have Been Distinguished During Life By Eminent Qualities, Especially By Sanctity Or By Remarkable Religious Services. Under The Same ...
Religious Amendment To The
Religious Amendment To The Constitution, The Proposed Insertion In The Constitution Of The United States Of An Acknowledgment Of God, The Scriptures, And Christ. The Reasons Advanced By Its Advocates Are: 1. The Nation Must Proceed From A Power Higher Than Itself. Having Supreme Jurisdiction Over A Portion Of The ...
Religious Reception
Reception, Religious, Of Monks, Nuns, And Other Religious Persons, Is The Cere Monial Whereby They Are Admitted To The Probationary State Called The Novitiate (q.v.). Before The Ceremony Of Reception, A Short Preparatory Stage Must He Passed Through By The Candidate (called At This Stage A " Postulant"), The Duration ...
Religious Tract Society
Religious Tract Society, A Society For The Promotion Of Religion By The Publica Tion And Circulation Of Religious Tracts And Small Books. By Far The Most Important Religious Tract Society In The World Is That Of London, Which Was Founded In 1799. There Are Now, Indeed, Numerous Religious Tract Societies ...
Rembrandt Hermanszoon
Rembrandt Hermanszoon, Commonly Called Rembrandt Van Rittn, Was The Son Of A Miller, Herman Gerritsz Van Rlivn, Whose House (where The Painter Was Born) And Mill Were Situated On An Arm Of The Rhine At Leyden. Rembrandt Hermanszoon Was Born Either On July 15, 1606, Or In 1608. The Former ...
Remittent Fever
Remittent Fever Is One Of The Three Varieties Of Fever Arising From Malaria Or Marsh-poison—the Two Others Being Intermittent Fever, Or Ague (q.v.), And Yellow Fever. In Its Milder Forms, It Scarcely Differs From Severe Intermittent Fever; While In Its More Serious Form, It May Approximate Closely To Yellow Fever. ...
Removal Or Paupers
Removal Or Paupers, In The Law Of England, Is The Technical Term Applied To The Compulsory Removal Of Paupers From A Parish In Which They Have Become Destitute, To The Parish Or Union Settlement, And Which, Therefore, Is Bound To Maintain Them. The Right Of Parochial Officers To Remove Paupers ...
Renaissance
Renaissance, The Name Given To The Style Of Art, Especially Architecture, In Europe, Which Succeeded The Gothic, And Preceded The Rigid Copyism Of The Classic Revival In The First Half Of The Present Century. Under The Heading Italian :iliciiitectititli We Have 'traced The Rise And Progress Of The Renaissance In ...
Rene Or Renates I
Rene Or Renate's I., Surnamed "the Good," Titular King Of Naples And Sicily, The On Of Louis Ii., Duke Of Anjou And Count Of Provence, Was H. In 1408 At Augers. Rene's Paternal Grandfather, Louis I., Duke Of Anjou, And Second Son Of John The Good, King Of France, Had ...
Renfrew
Renfrew (anciently Strathgryffe), A Co. In Scotland, 31 M. Long, By 13 Broad, Is Bounded On The N. And W. By The River And Firth Of Clyde, On The S. By Ayrshire, And On The E. And D. By Lanarkshire. Area, 254 Sq.m., Or 162,428 Acres; Pop. '61, 177,561; '71, ...
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, In Troy, N. Y., Endowed Stephen Van Rensselaer As A School Of Theoretical And Practical Science; Organized, 1824. It Has Long Had High Reputation In Its Special Department. The Studies Of The Course Are Designed To Secure To All The Graduates A Professional Preparation, At Once Thorough ...
Rent
Rent, In Political Economy, Is A Term Applied To The Profits Drawn From Land, Houses, Or Other Immovable Property, Termed In England "real Property." It Is Colloquially Applied To These Profits Only When The Property Is Hired By A Tenant Who Pays For The Use Of It. It Was Long ...
Repeat
Repeat, In Music, A Character Indicating The Repetition Of The Part Or Strain To Which It Applies. It Consists Of Two Perpendicular Lines Through The Staff, With Dots Before Them And Between The Lines Of The Staff— —41 Placed At The Close Of The Strain To Be Repeated. When A ...
Reports
Reports, In Law Are Printed Collections Of Decisions Rendered By Courts Of High Jurisdiction Accompanied By The Main Points In The Arguments Of The Opposing Counsel, The Reasons Which Have Governed The Judges In Coming To The Decisions Set Forth, And Where, As In Many Cases, There Is A Dissenting ...
Representation
Representation, In Politics, The Function Of The Delegate Of A Conatitueney In A Legislative Or Other Public Assembly. The Principle Of Representation, Even Where Not Directly Recognized, Must Be Presumed To Have Existed To Some Extent In All Governments Not Purely Democratic, In So Far As The Sense Of The ...
Representation_2
Representation In Politics (ante). It Is One Of The Faults Of Representative Government That, From The Usual Division Of The People Into Two Political Bodies Divided By Strict Party Lines, The Governing Power Rests In The Hands, Not Of The Whole Mass Of Voters, But Of A Partisan Majority. That ...
Reptiles
Reptiles (lat. Repo, I Creep), Constitute A Class Of The Subkingdom Vertebrata, Lying Between The Classes Of Amphibians And Birds. They May Be Briefly Characterized As Being Cold-blooded, Having A Heart Composed Of Only Three Cavities—viz., Two Auricles And A Single Ventricle, And As Breathing By Lungs Throughout The Whole ...
Republican
Republican, A Party Name In American Politics, Which Has Had At Different Times Different Significations. At The Adoption Of The Federal Constitution In 1787. And While Its Ratification By The Several States Was Under Discussion, The Country Was Divided Into Two Parties—the Federalists, Headed By Washington And The Elder Adams; ...
Repullic
Repullic (lat. Res Publioa, The Public Good), A Political Community In Which The Sovereign Power Is Lodged, Not In A Hereditary Chief, But Either In Certain Privileged Members Of The Community, Or In The Whole Community. According To The Constitution Of The Governing Body, A Republic May Therefore Vary From ...
Repulsion
Repulsion, Like Caloric, Luminous Corpuscles, And Other Crude Hypotheses Of Medieval Times Appears To Be Doomed To Speedy Extinction. The Apparent Repulsion Between The Particles Of A Gas, In Virtue Of Which It Exerts Pressure On The Containing Vessel, Is Now Known To Be Due To Motion (see Heat). A ...
Reputed Ownership
Reputed Ownership Is A Phrase Used In The English Bankruptcy Law To Denote That The Bankrupt At The Time Of His Bankruptcy Was Apparently The Owner Of Goods In His Possession. The General Rule Is, That Whatever Belonged To The Bankrupt At That Date Goes To His Assignees In Bankruptcy, ...
Resection Or Excision Of
Resection Or Excision Of Jornts Is An Operation In Which The Diseased Bone Of A Joint Is Cut Out, In Place Of Cutting Off The Whole Limb. Dr. Druitt, In His Able Summary On This Subject In The Surgeon's Va.de-mecum, Remarks, That " It Seems To Be Established That Excision ...
Reserve
Reserve, In Army Affairs, Has Several Meanings. First, In A Battle, The Reserve Is A Body Of Troops Held Somewhere In The Rear, Generally Out Of Fire. And Kept Fresh, In Order That They May Interfere With Decisive Force At Any Point Where Yielding Troops Require Support, Or An Advantage ...
Reservoir
Reservoir, A Receptacle For Storing Water For Any Purpose, But Chiefly For The Supply Of Towns, For Driving Machinery, Feeding Canals. Irrigation, Or For Some Process Of Man Ufactures. Generally, Every Water-works' Establishment., For The Supply Of A Town. Requires To Construct One Or More Reservoirs For Providing Compensation To ...
Resins
Resins, A Class Of Natural Vegetable Products Composed Of Carbon, Hydrogen, And Oxygen. They Are Closely Allied To The Essential Oils, All Of Which When Exposed To The Air Absorb Oxygen, And Finally Become Converted Into Substances Having The Characters Of Resin; And In Most Cases They Are Obtained From ...
Resistance Of Fluids
Resistance Of Fluids, The Opposing Force Given By Liquids And Gases To Bodies Resting In (m On Them Or Moving Through Them. Much Of The Principles Included Are Embraced In Hydrostatics (q.v.). As Water Presses In All Directions Alike At Any Point, It Follows That When A Floating Body Is ...
Respirator
Respirator Is The Name Given By Its Inventor, Mr. Jeffreys, To An Instrument Which Gives Warmth To The Air Drawn Into The Lungs In Breathing. It Is Attached To The Mouth, And Is Composed Of Several Layers Of Very Tine Wire, Fixed So Near Together That The Exhaled Air Passing ...
Respiratory Sounds
Respiratory Sounds Are Of The Greatest Importance In The Diagnosis Of The Dis Eases Of The Lungs. They May Be Divided Into (1) Those Directly Resulting From Inspiration And Expiration. And (2) Those Of The Voice, Including Coughing. In Time Healthy State Of The Lungs, Two Distinct Sounds Are Heard, ...
Resurrection
Resurrection, This Expression Denotes The Revival Of The Human Body In A Future State After It Has Been Consigned To The Grave. Wa Find Traces Of This Doctrine Iu Other Religions, And Especially In Later Judaism, But The Doctrine Is Peculiarly Christian. In The Earlier Hebrew Scriptures There Is No ...
Resurrection_2
Resurrection (ante), In The Signification Of The Word And The Scripture Doctrine Concerning It, Implies That In Some True Sense The Identity Of The Body Will Be Preserved In The Future Life. As To What Is Necessary To Constitute Identity, Various Opinions Are Advanced. 1. The Re-assembling Of All Particles ...
Retaining Walls
Retaining Walls. These, As Their Name Implies, Are Walls Built To Retain Earth, Sand, Or Other Incoherent Substances In Positions And Forms Which Without Their Aid They Could Not Maintain. . These Substances, If Left To Themselves, Will Not Stand With Vertical Sides, But Will Fall Down Till They Assume ...
Retention Of Urine
Retention Of 'urine Is The Term Employed In Medicine To Signify A Want Of Power To Discharge The Urine From The Bladder, And It Must Be Carefully Distinguishedfrom A Tar More Serious Affection Kuown As Suppression Of Urine, In Which Also No Urine Is Passed, Because In This Ease There ...
Retort
Retort, A Vessel Employed By Chemists For The Purpose Of Distilling Or Effecting Decomposition By The Aid Of Heat. It May Be Made Of Glass, Earthenware, Or Metal, According To The Purposes For Which Is To Be Employed. Glass Retorts Are The Most Common, And Their Ordinary Form Is Seen ...
Revelation
Revelation Is A Familiar Theological Expression, Commonly Applied To The Knowl Edge Of Himself Which God Has Given Us In Holy Scripture. In Itself, However, The Word Is Properly, And Of Late Years Has Been Frequently Used, Not Merely Of The Divine Knowl Edge Communicated To Its In Scripture, But ...
Revelation Of St John
Revelation Of St. John (apok&gpsis Loannou), The Last Book Of The New Testa Ment Scriptures. It Professes To Be The Production Of St. John, Traditionally Known As " The Divine" (he Theolo Gos). It Has Been A Subject Of Dispute, However, Whether St. John, The Author Of This Book, Is ...
Revelation Of St John_2
Revelation Of St. John (ante), Contains, I., An Announcement Of Its Symbolic Character, And A Benediction On Those Who Heed Its Words; John's Salutation To The Seven Churches Of Asia; An Account Of His Vision Of Christ In Glory, With The Command To Record What He Saw; Il Messages To ...
Reverie
Reverie Has Been Defined The Dream Of A Waking Man; It Differs, However, In Many Respects, . From Dreaming. In An Exaggerated Form, It Is Of Rare Occurrence; But When Exceeding Absence Of Mind, Or Abstraction From What Is Passing Around, It Is Altiormal .and Unhealthy; And May, Under All ...
Reversion
Reversion. When The Enjoyment Of Money, Or Of Any Kind Of Property Is Post- Poned Until, Or Contingent On, The Happening Of A Given Event Or Given_events, The Pres -cut Right To The Deferred Benefit Is Called A Reversion. When The Emergence Of The Right Is Certain, And The Date ...
Revivals Of Religion
Revivals Of Religion. The Term Revival Of Religion, Or More Briefly, Revival, Is Employed To Denote An Increase Of Faith And Piety In Individual Christians, Particularly After A Period Of Religious Declension, And Also An Increase Of Religion In A Community Or Neighborhood, Both Through The Revival Of Those Who ...
Revolution
Revolution, In Politics, Any Extensive Change In The Constitution Of A Country Sud Denly Brought About. The Two Most Important Events In Modern History Known Under This Name Are The English Revolution Of The 17th C. And The French Revolution Of The 18th. The Former Began In The Early Part ...
Revolver
Revolver, In Fire-arms, Is A Weapon Which, By Means Of A Revolving Breech Or Revol Ing Barrels, Can Be Made To Fire More Than Once Without Reloading. The Invention Is Very Far From New, Specimens, With Even The Present System Of Rotation, Being Still In Existence, Which Were Manufactured At ...
Reward
Reward, When Used In A Legal Sense, Means A Sum Of Money Awarded By A Court Or Judge To A Witness Who Has Been Instrumental In Detecting Crime. By An English Act Of Parliament Of 1827, Whenever It Appears To A Court Of Assize That A Person Has Been Active ...
Reynard The Fox
Reynard The Fox, The Title Of A Celebrated Epic Fable Of The Middle Ages, Belong Ing To, And Terminating The Series Of Poems In Which "beasts" Are The Speakers And Actors. It Is Written In Low-german, Professedly By A Hinreck Van Alckmer, " School Master And Tutor Of That Noble ...
Reynolds
Reynolds, Sir Josnua, P.r.a., Is Generally Acknowledged To Be At The Head Of The English School Of Painting; He Was B. On July 16, 1723. His Father Was The Rev. Samuel Reynolds, Rector Of Plympton, St. Mary, And Master Of The Grammar School Of Plympton, Devonshire. He Intended His Son ...
Rhampsinitus
Rhampsinitus, The Greek Name Of The Egyptian Monarch Rameses Iii., First King Of The 20th Dynasty, And Builder Of The Great Palace At Medinat Habil: According To Herodotus, He Placed Two Colossal Statues Of 25 Cubits High In Front Of The W. Vestibule Of The Hephmsteum At Memphis. He Was ...
Rhenish Architecture
Rhenish Architecture, The Style Of The Countrier, Bordering On The Rhine When The Arts First Revived After The Fall Of The Roman Empire. Being, At The Time Of Charle Magne, Part Of The Same Empire With Lombardy, The Arts Of That Country (see Lombard Architecture) Soon Spread Northward, And Similar ...
Rhenish Prussia
Rhenish Prussia (ger. 7?heinprovinz. Or Rheinpreussen), The Most Western And Most Thickly Peopled Of The Provinces Of Prussia, Lies The Banks Of The Rhine, And Is Bounded On The W. By Belgium And The Netherlands. Area 10,400 Sq.m. ; Pop. '75, 3,804,381, Of Whom About 2,500,000 Age Catholics, Half-a-million Are ...
Rheumatism
Rheumatism (from The Gr. Rheuma, A Flux) Is A Blood-disease In Which Inflamma Tion Of The Fibrous Tissues Is The Most Marked Characteristic, It Occurs Either As An Acute Or As A Chronic Affection; There Is, However, No Distinct Line Of Demarkation Between The Two, And The Latter Is Often ...
Rhine
Rhine (menus), The Most Important River In Germany, And One Of The Most Noted In Europe, Takes Its Rise In The Swiss Canton Of The Grisons, And After A N.n.w. Course Of About 850 M., Falls Into The German Ocean. The Area Of The Rhine Basin, Including Its 'various Feeders, ...
Rhinoceros
Rhinoceros (gr. Nose-horned). A Genus Of Pachydermata Ordinaria, Containing The Largest And Most. Powerful Of Terrestrial Mammalia, Except The Elephants. There Are At Least 7 Or 8 Existing Species, All Natives Of The Warm Parts Of Asia, The Indian Archipelago. And Africa; And Numerous Fossil Species Have Been Discovered In ...
Rhinoplastic Operation
Rhinoplastic Operation, When A Portion Or The Whole Of The Nose Has Teen Destroyed By Accident Or Disease. The Deficiency May Be Restored By A Transplantation Of Skin From An Adjoining Healthy Part. When The Whole Nose Has To He Replaced, The Following Course Is Usually Adopted. A Triangular Piece ...
Rhizanthee Iiiiizogens
Rhizanthee (iiiiizogens Of Lindley) Are A Very Remarkable Natural Order Of Plants. They Are. Parasitical Plants, Brown, Yellow, Or Purple, Never Of A Green Color, Destitute Of True Leaves, And Having Cellular Scales Instead. The Stem Is Amorphous And Fungus-like: Sometimes, As In Raffiesia (q.v.). There Is No Stem; But ...
Rhizopoda
Rhizopoda (gr. Rhizon, A Root, And Poda, Feet), An Important Class Of The Lowest Of The Animal Subkingdoms, The Protozoa. In All The Organisms Of This Class, The Body Is Composed Of A Simple Gelatinous Substance, To Which The Term "sareode" Is Applied; And Sion, All, Locomotion Is Performed By ...
Rhode Island
Rhode Island, One Of The 13 Original United States Of America, And The Smallest In The Union, On The Southern Coast Of Newengland, Is 47i In. From N. To S., And 37 In. From E. To W.; And Has An Area Of 1306 Sq. Miles. It Is Bounded N. And ...
Rhode Island
Rhode Island (ante). After Establishing A Settlement At Providence (so-called In Grateful Acknowledgment Of "god's Merciful Providence To Him In His Distress"), Roger Williams Went To England In 1643 And Obtained A Patent That Remained In Force Until 1663, When A Charter Was Obtained From Charles Ii. Incorporating The Colony ...
Rhodes
Rhodes, An Island Now Belonging To Asiatic Turkey, And Long An Important, Wealthy, And Independent State Of Ancient Greece, In The Mediterranean, Lies Off The S.w. Coast Of Anatolia. From The Nearest Point Of Which It Is Distant About 12 Miles. It Is 45 M. Long, And 20 In. In ...
Rhodes_2
Rhodes, An Ancient And Famous Maritime City, Capital Of The Island Of The Same Name, And Situated On Tire N.e. Extremity Of That Island. Lat. Of Harbor 36' 26' N.. 28' 16' East. The Modern City, Though Scarcely One-fourth The Size Of The Former One, Has An Imposing Appearance. Its ...
Rhododendron
Rhododendron (gr. Rose-tree), A Genus Of Trees And Shrubs Of The Natural Order Ericem, Having 10 Stamens, A Very Small Calyx, A Bell-shaped Or Somewhat Funnel-shaped Corolla, And A Capsule Splitting Up Through The Dissepiments. The Buds In This And Nearly Allied Genera, As Azalea (q.v.), Are Scaly And Conical. ...
Rhone
Rhone (rhodanng Of The Romans), Which Takes Its Rise In The Swiss Alps, On The Western Side Of Mount St. Gothard, Not Far From The Sources Of The Rhine, Is The Only Important. French River Which Falls Into The Mediterranean. Its Entire Length, From Its Origin To The Gulf Of ...
Rhubarb
Rhubarb, Rheum, A Genus Of Plants Of The Natural Order Polygonar, Closely Allied To R Umex (dock And Sorrel), Front Which It Differs In Having Nine Stamens, Throe Sldeld Like And It Three-winged Achenium. The Species, Which Are Numerous. Are In R Herbaceous Plants, Natives Of The Central Regions Of ...
Rhythm
Rhythm (gr. Rhythmns, Any Motion, Especially A Regulated, Recurring Motion; Hence, Measured Motion, Time. Number), In Its Widest Sense, May Be Defined As Measured Or Timed Movement., Regulated Succession. It Seems To Be A Necessity For Man, If Move .nents Of Any Kind Are To Be Sustained For A Length ...
Ribbonism
Ribbonism, The Name Of A System Of Secret Associations Among The Lower Classes In Ireland, The Objects Of Which Have Long Been A Subject Of Much Suspicion And Of Con Siderable Controversy. The First Origin Of The Associations Known Under This Name Is Involved In Much Obscurity. From The Middle ...
Ribs
Ribs Are Elastic Arches Of Bone. Which, With The Vertehral Column Behind. And The Sternum Or Breast-hone In Front, Constitute The Osseous Part Of The Walls Of The Chest. In Man, There Are 12 Ribs On Each Side. The First 7 Are More Direetly Connected Through Iniervenin Cartilages With The ...
Ricasoli
Rica'soli, Berrixo, Baron, B. At Florence, Mar. 9, 1809; Is Descended From A Very • Ancient Lombard Family, Which Established Itself In Tuscany In The 13th Century. Rica Soli Studied At Pisa And Florence, And From An Early Period Of His Life Was Imbued With A Desire To Ameliorate The ...
Rice
Rice, Oryza, A Geniis' Of Grasses, Having Panicles Of One-flowered Spikelets, With Two Very Small Pointed Glumes; The Florets Compressed, The Palm Strongly Nerved. Awned Or Awnless, Six Stamens, One Germen And Two Feathery Stigmas. The Only Important Species Is The Common R. (0. Sativa). Oue Of The Most Useful ...
Richard I
Richard I., King Of England, Surnamed Cceur De Lion, Was The Third Son Of Henry Ii. By His Queen Eleanor. He Was Born At Oxford In Sept., 1157. In The Treaty Of Montmirail, Entered Into Jan. 6, 1169, Between Henry And Louis Vii. Of France, It Was Stipulated That The ...
Richard Il
Richard Il, King Of England, The Second Son Of Edward The Black Prince And Joanna Of Kent, Was Born At Bordeaux On April 3, 1366. He Succeeded To The Throne On The Death Of His Grandfather, Edward Iii., June 28, 1377. He Being A Minor, The Govern Ment Was Vested ...