L Tarquinius Superbes
L. Tarquinius Superbes, Son Of The Preceding, Having Murdered His Father-in-law, Servius Tullius, At The Instigation Of His Wife, Is Represented In The Legend As Audaciously Usurping The Vacant Throne; But As The Whole Drift Of His Legislative Policy Was To Abolish The Reforms Of Servius, There Can Be Little ...
Lake Superior
Superior, Lake, The Largest Body Of Fresh Water In The World, Is The Highest And Most Western Of The Great Lakes Lying Between West Canada And The United States. It Is Situated Not Far From The Center Of The North American Continent. Its General Form Is Nearly Semi-lunar, The Outer ...
Laudentius Valla
Valla, Laudentius, One Of The First Scholars Of The Renaissance, Was B. At Rome In 1415, Taught Classics In Various Places In The North Of Italy; Butin 1443, On Account Of His Assaults On The Scholastic Philosophy, And His Defense Of Epicurus, Found It Advisable To Seek Protection At Naples ...
Law As To Travelers
Travelers, Law As To. In The United Kingdom, Entire Freedom Of Traveling Is One Of The Rights Of The Subject. The Rights Of Travelers In Regard To The Use Of Roads Are Stated Under The Head Of Highway (q.v.). Other Rights Are Noticed In Connection With Inn (q.v.). With Regard ...
Laws As To Theaters
Theaters, Laws As To. In Great Britain All Theaters Must Be Licensed, Either By Virtue Of Letters-patent From Her Majesty, Or By License From The Lord Chamberlain For The Time Being, Or From Justices Of The Peace. The Lord Chamberlain Grants Licenses To All Theaters (not Being Patent Theaters) Within ...
Leonard Torstensohn
Torstensohn, Leonard, Count Of Ortala, The Most Active, Enterprising, And Suc Cessful Of The Swedish Generals Who Were Engaged In The Thirty Years' War (q.v.), Was Born At Torstena, Aug. 17, 1603, Became One Of The Royal Pages In 1618, And Attended Gustavus Adolphus In Most Of His Earlier Campaigns. ...
Liberty To Trade
Trade, Liberty To, Is One Of The Rights Incident To All Persons By The Law Of Eng Land. So Absolute Is This Right That It Is Considered By Courts Of Law To Be An Illegal And Void Covenant When A Person, However Deliberately, Engages Never To Trade, For It Is ...
Lliswater
Lliswater, After Windermere, The Largest Of The English "lakes," Lies Between The Counties Of Cumberland And Westmoreland. 10 M. E. Of Keswick. Length, 9 In.; Breadth, 1 Mile. Its Scenery Has None Of The Soft Beauty Of That Of Windermere, But Is Rugged And Grand. One Of The Chief Features ...
Lope Felix De Vega Carpio
Vega-carpio, Lope Felix De, A Celebrated Spanish Poet, Was Born At Madrid On The 25th November, 1562. From His Very Infancy, He Is Said To Have Given Promise Of Ex Traordinary Talent. Like Pope, He "lisped In Numbers." On The Death Of His Father, The Family, Originally A Good One, ...
Louis Gabriel Stichet
Stichet, Louis-gabriel, Duke Of Albufera, And Marshal Of France, Was Descended From An Honorable Family, And B. At Lyons, Mar. 2, 1770. He Volunteered As A Private Into The Cavalry Of The Lyons National Guard In 1792, And Subsequently Became Attached To The Army Ofitaly. His Rare Intelligence And Brilliant ...
Marcus Trajanus
Traja'nus, Marcus Iiiprus, Roman Emperor, Was Born At Italica (alcala), Near Seville, Sept. 18, 52 A.d. He Was Descended From A Family Which Was Probably Of Roman Origin, And Was Early Trained To Arms, Becoming A Prominently Successful Leader In The Parthian And German Campaigns, During The Reigns Of Titus ...
Marguerite Eleonore Clotilde De
Surville, Marguerite Eleonore Clotilde De Vallon-chalts De, 1405-80; Is Said To Be The Writer Of Poems First Collected In 1803 By Vanderbourg. Some Ascribe Them To One Of Her Descendants, The Marquis Joseph Etienne De Surville, And Others Think These Poems Were Written By The Publisher Vauderbourg Himself. Sus, A ...
Martin Buren Van Buren
Van Buren, Martin (buren, V-a_n, Ante), 1782-1862; B. N. Y.; A Lawyer And Politician Before He Had Come Of Age. In 1812 He Was In The State Senate; Three Years Later Was Attorney-general; And After Being Again State Senator, Was Chosen U. S. Senator In 1821. He Was Re-elected In ...
Martin Tupper
Tupper, Martin Fanqurtan., D.c.l., P.r.s., A Poet Rather Popular Than Great, Was B. On July 17, 1810. His Father, Martin Tupper, Was A Well-known London Surgeon, Of A Family Originally German, Which Had Long Been Settled In Guernsey. Martin Tupper Was Educated At The Charter-house, And Afterward At Christ Church, ...
Meta
Meta Is, In The Epic And Purfinic Mythology Of India (see Religion, Under India), One Of The Principal Names Of The Consort Of The God Siva. Other Names By Which She Is Also Usually Designated Are Durgei, Devi, Kali, Peirvati, Bharcini, While There Are Many More Belonging To Her Whidh ...
Metallic Sulphides
Sulphides, Metallic, Formerly Known As Sulphurets, Are Combinations Of Sulphur With A Metal. Many Of Them Occur Native, And Form Highly Valuable Ores. They Are All Solid At Ordinary Temperatures, And, With The Exception Of Those Of Potassium, Sodium, Calcium, Strontium, Barium, And Magnesium, Are Insoluble In Water; They Are, ...
Military Tactics
Tactics, Military. Strategy (q.v.) Is The Art Of Maneuvering Armies With Refer Ence To The Objects Of The Whole Campaign—the Securing Of Communications, The Cut Ting Off An Enemy From His Base, Throwing Him Into A Position Where He Must Fight At A Disadvantage, Or Surrender, Etc. Tactics Has Regard ...
Military Topography
Topography, Military. Among The First Necessities Of A Military Commander Is A Thorough Knowledge Of The Physical Conformation, The Obstacles, And The Resources Of • The Country In Which He Has To Operate. Ito Frequently Happens That The Field Of Warfare Is One Of Which No Careful Survey Is Procurable. ...
Muscular Tonicity
Tonicity, Muscular. The Contractility Of Muscles Shows Itself Under Two Distinct Forms—irritability And Tonicity, Which Are Alike Distinct In The Mode Of Their Action And In The Conditions Requisite For Their Exhibition. Irritability Is Most Manifest In The Vol Untary Muscles And In The Heart, Which, When In Activity, Exhibit ...
Naval Tactics
Tactics, Naval. With The Advent Of Steam, Iron-plated Ships, And Rams, The Tac Tics Under Which Rodney And Nelson Fought And Conquered Have Passed Away, While The Principles Of The New Warfare Have Scarcely Been Sufficiently Established For Reduc Tion To Theory. A Glance At The Obsolete Tactics Of Bygone ...
Officer
Officer& Enl/stirl Rem 10 Cavalry Regiments 430 7,206 5 Artillery Regiments 278 2,387 25 Infantry Regiments 851 10,978 Engineer Battalion, Recruiting Parties, Ordnance De Partment, Hospital Service, Indian Scouts, West Point, And General Service 568 3,026 2,127 24,902the Military Arrangement Of The Country For The Distribution Of The Army Is ...
Organ And Sense Of
Taste, Organ And Sense Of. The Principal Seat Of The Sense Of Taste Is The Mucous Membrane Of The Tongue, In Which Dissection Reveals A Cults Or Chorion, A Papillary Struc. Lure, And An Epithelium. Of The Cubs, It Is Sufficient To Remark That It Is Tough, But Thin Ner ...
P Valerianus
Valeria'nus, P. Liornms, Ronian Emperor, Was Descended From An Ancient And Noble Family, And After Distinguishing Himself In The Various Posts Which He Was Selected To Fill By Masters Who Appreciated His Talents And Virtues, Was Chosen For His Integrity And Accomplishments To The Office Of Censor. Faithful In His ...
Palace Of Vatican
Vatican, Palace Of, In Rome, The Principal Residence Of The Pope, And The Seat Of The Great Library And The Museums, And Collections Of Art, Ancient And Modern, Which, For Visitors, Constitute One Of The Chief Attractions Of The City Of Rome. The Popes, Very Soon After The Establishment Of ...
Peter Frederik Suhm
Suhm, Peter Frederik, A Danish Historian, Was B. In Copenhagen, Oct. 18,1728, Of An Ancient And Noble Family, And Was Sent To The University Of Copenhagen, Where He Graduated In Law In 1748. A Few Years Later He Went To Norway For The Sake Of Prosecuting His Studies In Philology ...
Peter Stuyvesant
Stuyvesant, Peter, 1602-82, B. Holland; In Early Manhood Entered The Mili Tary Service Of The Dutch In The West Indies, And In 1034 Was Made Director Of The Colony Of Curacao. In 1047 The Dutch West India Company Appointed Him Director General Of Their American Colonies. He Soon Gained The ...
Registration Of Title
Title, Registration Of, In England, Is A Modern Experiment, Set On Foot Afterlong Continued Opposition, And Still Frowned On By The Solicitors, Who Conceive That Its Opera Tion Will Be To Reduce Their Emoluments. Owing To The Total Want Which Had Always Existed Of A Register For Deeds Or Writs ...
Registration Of Title_2
Title, Registration Of (ante), In Law, Confined Usually To Real Estate, Has Been Defined As " The Means Whereby The Owner Of A Real Estate In Real Property Acquires His Right Of Property, His Right Of Possession, And His Actual Possession." The Title May Be By Descent Or By Purchase, ...
Richard Chenevix Trench
Trench, Richard Chenevix, Archbishop Of Dublin, Divine And Scholar Of The Church Of England, Belongs To An Anglo-irish Family Of Galway, The Trenches Of Wood Lawn, And Was Born At Dublin, Sept. 9. 1807. He Was Educated At And Trin Ity College, Cambridge, Where He Graduated In 1829. After Traveling ...
Richard Talbot Tyrconnel
Tyrconnel, Richard Talbot, Duke And Earl Of, B. Early In The 17th Century. In His Youth, According To Lord Macaulay, He Was "one Of The Most Noted Sharpers And Bul Lies Of London." Soon After The Restoration, He Endeavored To Obtain The Favor Of The Royal Family By Blackening The ...
Robert Spencer Sunderland
Sunderland, Robert Spencer, Second Earl, Was The Only Son Of Henry, First Earl, Who Had Been Raised To The Peerage In 1643, For His Exertions In The Royal Cause. He Was Born In 1642, And After Serving As Ambassador To Several Courts, Became Iu 1679 Secretary Of State. He Had ...
Robert Toombs
Toombs, Robert, B. Washington, Ga., 1810; Graduated At Union College, 1828; Studied Law At The University Of Virginia, And Began Practice In Wilkes Co.. Ga. In The Creek War Of 1836 Lie Served As Rapt. Of The Voluneers. From 1837 To 1845, He Was A Member Of The State Legislature; ...
Royal Supremacy
Supremacy, Royal. The Term Supremacy Is, In Politics, Chiefly Used With Regard To Authority In Matters Ecclesiastical. From The Time Of Pope Gelasius (494 A.d.) To The Reformation, The Pope Exercised A Very Extensive Authority, Judicial, Legislative, And Executive, Over All The Churches Of Western Europe, Somewhat Undefined In Its ...
Ry Of Light Undulatory
Undulatory The":',ry Of Light. Optics Ranks Next To Dynamics In The Category Of Nearly Eaoct Knees—t Hat Is, Of Sciences Whose Lundamenta I Principles Are So Well Know N, That The Result Of Almost Any New Experimental Con Bin At Ion Can Be Predicted Metheinatieally. Given The Lorees Acting On ...
Saint Swithin
Swithin, Saint, An English Ecclesiastic Of The 9th C., Who Was Chaplain To King Egbert, And Tutor To His Son Ethelwulf, Under Whom, When He Came To The Throne, He Held The Office Of Chancellor. He Had The Charge Of The Education Of King Alfred, Whom Lie Accompanied To Rome. ...
Saint Teresa
Teresa, Saint, One Of The Most Remarkable Of The Female Saints Of The Modern Roman Calendar, And The Most Admired Of The Modern Mystic Writers Of That Commun Ion, Born At Avila, In Old Castile, March 28, 1515, Was The Daughter Of Alfonso, Of The Noble House Of Sanchez De ...
Sebastian Le Nain De
Tillemont, Sebastian Le Nain De, The Well-known Ecclesiastical Historian, Was Born At Paris, Nov. 30, 1637. His Father Was Jean Le Nam, Who Held The Office Of Maitre Des Requetes, The Title, De Tillemont, By Which The Historian Is Commonly Known, Derived From A Small Estate Near Vincennes, Which Belonged ...
Sebastien Le Prestre Vattban
Vattban, Sebastien Le Prestre, Marshal Of France, The Celebrated Military Engineer, Was Born At Saint Leger De Fongeret, In The Dep. Of Nievre, May15, 1633: And Being Left An Almost Destitute Orphan At The Age Of Ten, His Education Was Carried On Under The Auspices Of The Cure Of His ...
Siiiiatra
Siiiiat'ra (called By The Arabians Srinme Or Srimata, " The Happy," Whence Its Present Name), The Most Westerly Of The Sunda Islands, Lies S. Of The Malay Peninsula, From Which It Is Separated By The Strait Of Malacca. Lat. Between 5°45' N. And 5° 50' South. It Is 1040 M. ...
Siinna
Siinna (arab. Custom, Legal Usage), Originally Denotes Among Moslems The Sayings And The Example Of Mohammed And His Community, Provided They Are In Accordance With The Koran, The Meaning Of Which, However, Is Itself Explained By The Sunna. The Term Is Therefore (though Incorrectly) Used For The Collections Of Moral ...
Siinnites
Siinnites, Traditionists Or Believers In The Sunna (q.v.); The Name Of The "orthodox" Moslems As Opposed To The Shiites (q.v.). They Are Subdivided Into Four Principal Sects, Who, Though At Issue On Different Minor Points, Yet Are Acknowledged By Each Other To Belong To The Faithful, And To Be Capable ...
Sitez
Sit'ez, Until Recently, A Small, Ill-built, Wretched-looking Town, On An Angle Of Land Near The Northern Extremity Of The,gulf Of Suez, 76 M. E. Of Cairo, With Which It Is Con Nected By Railway. The Pop. Was Officially Returned, In 1872, As 13,498. It Is Walled On All Sides But ...
Sity Of
Sity Of Fraxce. The Granting Of Degrees Was The Mode In Which The University Reproduced Itself. A Degree Is The Recognition Of A Student Having Made A Certain Advance In His Career, The Degree Of Doctor Or Master, In Its Original Idea, Entitling The Person On Whom It Was Conferred ...
Spiridion Tricoitpis
Tricoitpis, Spiridion, A Modern Greek Statesman And Author, Son Of A Primate Of Missoloughl, Was Born In That Town In 1791. After Completing His Studies Iti France And England, He Went To The Ionian Isles, Where He Aided Lord Guilford In The Foundation Of The University Of Corfu (1820); But ...
Stephen Van Rensselaer
Van Rensselaer, Stephen, Known As "the Patroon," An American Statesman, And Patron Of Learning, Was H. N. Y., Nov. 1, 1769, The Fifth In Descent From Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, The Original Patroon Or Proprietor Of The Dutch Colony Of Rensselaerwyck, Who In 1630, And Subsequently, Purchased A Tract Of Land ...
Stickling
Stickling, Sir One Of The Brilliant Cavalier Poets Of The Court Of Charles I., Was Born At Whitton, In Middlesex, And Baptized Feb. 10, 1608-9. His Father, Also A Knight, Held Office As A Secretary Of State, And Comptroller Of The Household, But Died In 1027, When The Poet Was ...
Strasbourg
Stras'bourg (ger. Strassburg), A Fortified T., Formerly The Capital Of The French Department Of The Bits Rhin, But, Since 1871, Capital Of The New German Province Of Alsace-lorraine, Stands At The Confluence Of The Ill And The Brnsche, And Not Fu• From The Left Bank Of The Rhine. 89 Tn. ...
Stratford Canning Etratford De Redcliffe
Etratford-de-redcliffe, Stratford Canning, Viscount, English Diplomatist, Is Son Of A London Merchant, And Cousin Of The Celebrated George Lle Was Bora 1788, Educated At Eton, And Entered Himself Of King's College, Cambridge, In 1806, But Left In 1807, On Receiving An Appointment As Précis Writer In The Foreign Office. He ...
Stratum
Stratum, Pl. Strata (lat. Strewn Or Spread Out), The Term Applied By Geologists To The Layers Into Which Most Of The Rocks That Form The Crust Of The Earth Are Divided. It Implies That The Layers Have Been Spread Out Over The Surface, And That They Were Formed In This ...
Straw Manufactures
Straw-manufactures. The Industrial Applications Of The Straw Of Wheat Are Of _great Commercial Importance, Especially That Of Plaiting, Which Is One Of The Oldest Arts Practiced By Mankind, Many Specimens Having Been Found In The Tombs Of The Ancient Egyptians, And Mention Being Made Of Plaiting By Herodotus And Other ...
Straw Manufactures_2
Straw Manufactures (ante). From A Very Early Period In The Colonial Times, The Plaiting Of Straw And Its Manufacture Into Suitable Goods For Domestic Use Was A Common Home Industry In Many New England And Other Northern Households. As These Goods Were Necessarily Crude And Ungraceful, The Wants Of The ...
Strawberry
Strawberry, Fragarta, A Genus Of Plants Of The Natural Order Rosacea, Suborder Roseee, Tribe Remarkable For The Manner In Which The Receptacle Increases And Beemnes Succulent, So As To Form What Is Popularly Eslled The Fruit; The Proper Fruit (botanically)being The Small Achenia Which It Bears Upon Its Surface. The ...
Strength Of Materials
Strength Of Materials. The Strength Of Materials Upon Their Physi Cal Constitution—viz., Their Form, Texture, Hardness, Elasticity, And Ductility. The Resistance Of Materials In Engineering Works Is Tested In Reference To Various Strains; Such Are-1. Extension Or Tension; 2. Compression Or Crushing; 3. Transverse Or Cross Strain ; 4. Shearing ...
Stricture
Stricture Is A Term Employed In Surgery To Denote An Unnatural Contraction, Either Congenital Or Acquired, Of A Mucous Canal, Such As The Uretha, Oesophagus, Or Intestine. When, However, The Affected Part Is Not Mentioned, And A Person Is Stated To Suffer From Stricture, It Is Always The Urethral Canal ...
Strikes
Strikes. Beginning As Early As The Middle Of The 14th C., The Opposition Of Combined Labor To The Efforts Of Employers To Regulate The Price And Boors Of Labor, Has Been Prominent In Economic History; Though, Indeed, The Earliest Incident Re Corded In Such History, Had A Peculiar Origin, The ...
Strongyliis
Strongyliis (from The Similar Greek Word Signifying Round) Is The Term Applied To A Genus Of The Family Strongylides (q.v.) Of Nematode Parasitic Worms. The Only True Strongylus Infesting Man Is The S. Bronchittlis Of Cobbold, Previously Known As Flaria Hominis Bronchialis, Hamularia Compressa, Etc. The Male Usually Measures Rather ...
Strontium
Strontium (symb. Sr, Equiv. 43.8—new System, 87.6—sp. Gr. 2.54) Is A Ductile End Malleable Metal, Somewhat Harder Than Lead, And Of A Pale Yellow Color. When Heated In The Air, It Burns With A Crimson Flame, And Becomes Converted Into Its Oxide, Strum In. It Is Unaffected By The Action ...
Sturgeon
Sturgeon, Aceipenser, A Liniarean Genus Of Cartilaginous Fishes, Now Forming The Family Sturionidce, And Placed By Muller In The Order Of Ganoids, Distinguished By The Ganoid (q.v.) Scales Or Bony Shields Which Form The External Covering. The Gills Are Free, As In The Osseous Niles. The Vertebral Column Is Soft; ...
Or Superfetation
Superfeta'tion, Or The Circumstance Of Two Distinct Conceptions Occurring In The Same Woman At An Interval Of Greater Or Less Duration, So That Two Fetuses Of Ent Ages—the Offspring Possibly Of Different Parents—may Co-exist In The Uterus, Is A Subject Of Great Interest Both In A Scientific And In A ...
Or Swine Plague
Swine-plague, Or Hon Cholera, An Infectious Disease Produced By A Bacteroid Schizophyte, A Microscopic Organism Having The Power Of Indefinite Multiplication In The System. The Symptoms And Pathological Conditions Vary Considerably, Depending Upon The Virulence Of The Disease, This Depending Very Greatly Upon The Number Of Ani Mals Kept Together, ...
Or Talipat Palm
Talipat Palm, Or Great Fau Palm, Corypha Umbraculifera, The Noblest Palm Of The East Indes, A Native Of Ceylon, Malabar, Etc. It Grows To The Height Of 60, 70, Or Even 100 Ft., And Has A Straight Cylindrical Trunk, Crowned With A Tuft Of Enormous Palmate Plaited Leaves, Which Are ...
Or Tanney Tannic Acid
Tannic Acid, Or Tanney. Under These Synonymous Terms, Chemists Include A Number Of Solid Non-nitrogenous Substances, Consisting Of Carbon, Hydrogen, And Oxy Gen, Some Of Which Are Crystalline, And Others Amorphous, And Possessing No Smell, But A Well-marked Astringent Taste. They Are Soluble In Water And Alcohol, The Solutions Being ...
Or Teebisond Trebizond
Trebizond, Or Teebisond (in Turkish, Tarabezdn), Is A Turkish Eyalet In The N.e. Of Asia Minor, Stretching Along The S.e. Shore Of The Black Sea For 240 In., With An Esti Mated Pop. Of 540,000. The Surface Is Mostly Mountainous, The Slopes Toward The Sea Being Thickly Wooded. The Eastern ...
Or Termite
Termite, Or Wiirre Ant, Termites, A Genus Of Insects Of The Order Neuroptera, And And Of The Family Termitidce Or Termitince. They Live In Great Communities, Chiefly In Tropical Countries, And Are Almost Omnivorous, In The Larva, And Pupa, As Well As In The Perfect State. In Their Communities There ...
Or Tezel Tetzel
Tetzel, Or Tezel (properly Diez Or Diezel), Join:, Well Known In Connection With The Controversy Regarding Indulgences, Out Of Which The First Beginnings Of The Reforma Tion Took Their Rise, Was B. At Leipsic Between 1450 And 1460. His Father Was A Gold Smith Of That City. Tetzel, After Completing ...
Or Thymus Gland
Thymus Gland, Or Simply The Thymus (gr. Thymos, Sweet Thyme, Because The Gland Was Compared To The Flower Of This Plant By Galen), One Of Those Structures Which, Like The Spleen, Suprarenal Capsules, And Thyroid Gland, Are Placed Among The Ductless Glands. It Is A Temporary Organ, And Is Caninionly ...
Or Tiirmey
Tiirmey, Or The Ottoman Empire (q.v.), Includes Large Portions Of The Continents Of Europe, Asia, And Africa, And Consists Of Turkey Proper, Which Is Under The Direct Rule Of The Sultan, And Of Several Dependent And Tributary States. The Arrangements Sanctioned By The Berlin Congress In 1878 Have Largely Changed ...
Or Tindale Tyndale
Tyndale, Or Tindale, Willia31, An Eminent English Reformer And Martyr, Well Known As A Translator Of The Bible, Was B. About 1484. He Was Educated First At .oxford, And Afterward At Cambridge, And Was, From His Youth, As Foxe Says, " Singularly Ad Dicted To The Study Of The Scriptures." ...
Or Tiziano Titian
Titian, Or Tiziano, Vecelli, The Head Of The Venetian School, And One Of The Greatest Painters That Ever Lived, Was B. Of A Good Family At Capo Del Cadore, In The Friulian Alps, In The Year 1477, Or, According To Some, In 1480. His Predilection For Drawing Caused His Father ...
Or Toffy Toffee
Toffee, Or Toffy, A Sweetmeat Made Of Sugar, Melted With About Half Its Weight Of Butter. Much Care Is Required In Making It, To Insure Its Being Crisp When Cold. It Should Be Kept Over The Fire And Slightly Simmered For A Quarter Of An How, When Small Drops Are ...
Or Torula Cerevisi1e
To'rula Cerevisi1e, Or The Yeast-plant, Is One Of Those Fungi Which Arc Con Nected With The Process Of Fermentation. The General History Of This Fungus Will Be Noticed Iu The Article Yeast, And We Shall Here Only Refer To The Medicinal Bearing Of The Subject. This Plant, Which Is Also ...
Or Tramps Vagrants
Vagrants, Or Tramps, A Class Of Beggars, Many Thousands In Number, Who, Having Their Headquarters In The Large Towns In England, Wander About The Country, Subsisting Upon Charity And Plunder. In England The Spirit Of The Laws And Still More Of The Pub Lic Opinion Have Always Been Averse To ...
Or Trance
Trance, Or Monurn Sleep, Differs From Natural Repose In Duration; In Profound In Sensibility To External Impressions: In Following Excitement And The Exaltation Of Certain Instincts, Chiefly The Religious And Am; Five, Rather Than Fatigue Or Exhaustion; And In Being The Concomitant Or Symptom Of Diseases Of The Nervous System. ...
Or Transmigration
Transmigration, Or The Passing From One Place, State, Or Condition Into Another, Means, In The Theological Acceptation Of The Term, The Supposed Transition Of The Soul After Death Into Another Substance Or Body Than That Which It Occupied Before. The Belief In Such A Transition Is One Of The Most ...
Or Trematode Trematoda
Tremato'da, Or Trematode Worms, Constitute, According To Dr. Cobbold's System, The Second Order Of The Sub-class Sterelmintha (owen), Of The Class Helraintka. In Ordinary Zoological Classification, The Trematoda Form A Division Of The Group Of Platyelmia Or "flat-worms," Which Group Is In Its Turn Included In The Class Scolecida—a Division ...
Or Tripoli
Trip'oli, Or Truroms (in Its Modern Arabic Form, Tart/but/is), The Ancient Tripoli's, A Sea-port, And One Of The Chief Commercial Towns Of Syria, Capital Of A Pashalie In The Cyalet Or .government Of Sidon, Is Situated Near The Coast, On The Eastern Border Of A Small Triangnlar Plain Running Out ...
Or Tronditjem Throndhien
Thron'dhien, Or Tronditjem (ger. Dronth,eim),the Ancient Nidaros, And Former Capi Tal Of Norway, Is Situated Iu The Fjord Of Throndhjem At The Mouth Of The Little River Nid, 240m. N. Of Christiania; Pop. '75 22,597. Throndhjem Which Consists Of The Old Town, Founded In 997, And The Suburbs Of Blakland ...
Or Usbegs
Usbegs, Or Usseks, A People Of Turkish Race, Who, At The Close Of The 15th C. Of The Christian Era, Invaded And Conquered The Numerous Principalities Into Which Turkistan Was At That Time Divided, And Have Ever Since Maintained Dominion Over The Country. At The Present Day They Are For ...
Or Yedo Tokio
Tokio, Or Yedo (pronounced Edo, " River-door"), Since 1868 Called Tokio (" Eastern Capital"), The Chief City Of Japan, Is Situated In The E. Of The Mainland, At The Head Of The Bay Of The Same Name, In Lat. 35° 26' 30' N., And Long. 139° 39 24' East. The ...