Trout
Trout, A Term Applied Generally To Various Species Of Fishes Belonging To The Salmon Family (salmonidx). The Best Known Species, And That Which Par Excel Lence Receives The Name, Is The Salm° Fario Or Common Trout, A Fish Which In Habits Clear And Running Streams, And Is Mostly To Be ...
Troy
Troy, A City Of New York, And The County-seat Of Rensselaer Co. It Is At The Head Of The Navigation On The Hudson River, And Is The Terminus Of The New York Barge Canal. It Is On The Dela Ware And Hudson, The New York Cen Tral, The Rutland, And ...
Truss
Truss, In Architecture, An Ornamented Corbel, Serving To Support An Entablature Or Balcony, Or To Conceal The Ends Of The Beams Which Really Support The Structure; In The Latter Case It Is Frequently Made Of Galvanized Sheet Iron. In Carpentry, A Frame To Which Rigidity Is Given By Stay Ing ...
Trust
Trust, An Arrangement By Which Property Is Handed To Or Vested In A Person, In The Trust Or Confidence That He Will Use And Dispoe Of It For The Benefit Of Another. In England, Land Was In Early Times Frequently Conveyed To Persons In Whom The Owner Had Con Fidence ...
Tubingen School
Tubingen School, In Church His Tory, The Name Given To Two Schools Of Theology Whose Chief Representatives Were Connected With The University Of Tiibingen, Either As Professors Or Stu Dents. The Old Was Essentially Orthodox. Its Founder Was Gottlob Chris Tian Storr (1746-1805), Appointed Pro Fessor Of Philosophy At Tiibingen ...
Tudor Style
Tudor Style, In Architecture, A Term Applied To The Perpendicular Style, From The Fact That It Attained Its Great Est Development Under Henry Vii., The First Of The Tudor Line. The Chapel Which That Monarch Erected At Westminster Is A Famous Specimen Of This Style. The Term Is Applied Specifically ...
Tulip
Tulip, A Genus Of Bulbous Lilacem, With Usually Solitary Campanulate Flow Ers Of Six Free Segments, Stamens Hypogynous, Filaments Short, Anthers Fixed By The Base, Mobile, Linear, Burst Ing Inward; Ovary Three-cornered; Stig Ma Sessile With Three Radiating Lobes; Capsule Erect, Coriaceous. The Genus Is Restricted To The Old World, ...
Tumor
Tumor, In Surgery, Any Morbid Parasitic Growth, Generally, Though Not Always, Attended By Swelling. Tumors Are Primarily Divided Into Two Classes, The First Innocent, Including Non-malig Nant, Solid, Benign, Or Sarcomatous, And The Second Malignant Growths. Tumors Of The First Type Occur In Comparatively Few Tissues, And Do Not Alter ...
Tunis
Tunis A Country Of North Africa, Now A French Protectorate; Bounded On The N. And N. E. By The Mediterranean, On The S. E. By Tripoli, And On The W. And S. W. By Algeria; Area, Estimated At 51,000 Square Miles; Pop. About 1,900,000. The Coast Line Presents Three Indenta ...
Tunnel
Tunnel, In Engineering, A Horizontal Or Slightly Inclined Gallery Beneath The Surface Of The Ground; Generally Used For An Aqueduct Or For The Passage Of A Railway, Roadway, Or Canal. In The Con Struction Of Railroads It Is Frequently Necessary To Pierce The Hills, So As To Preserve A Line ...
Turanian
Turanian, The Title Formerly Con Ferred On A Vast Family Of Combinatory Or Agglutinative Languages, Which Is Made To Comprise Every Tongue Of Asia And Europe That Is Not Either Aryan Or Semitic„ With The Exception Of Chinese And Its Cognate Dialects. This Family Falls, According To Max Muller, Into ...
Turin
Turin, A City Of North Italy; Capital Of A Province Of The Same Name; At The Confluence Of The Dora Ripera With The Po, And Between These Two Rivers. The City Is Essentially Modern, The Streets Being Broad And Regular And Many Of Them Are Lined With Arcades, While There ...
Turkestan
Turkestan ("land Of The Turks"), The Name Of A Wide, Longitudinal, De Pressed Region In Central Asia, Which Comprises The Basins Of The Amu-darya And The Tarim; Separated On The S. By The Kuen-lun From Tibet, By The Kara Korum (mustagh) And Hindu Kush From India And Ladak, The Latter ...
Turkey
Turkey, In Ornithology, Any Species Of The Genus Meleagris. They Are The Largest Of The Game Birds, And For That Reason Have Been Domesticated For A Great Length Of Time. All The Species Have The Head Naked, With Wattles Or Folds Of Bright Naked Skin, Which Be Comes Much More ...
Turnip
Turnip, A Biennial Plant, With Lyrate Hispid Leaves; The Upper Part Of The Root Becoming, Especially In Cultivation, Swol Len And Fleshy. It Is A Native Of Europe And The Temperate Parts Of Asia, Grow Ing In Borders Of Fields And Waste Places. It Is Commonly Regarded As A Native ...
Turtle
Turtle, In Zoology, The Popular Name For Any Species Of The Chelonsidx. They May Be Distinguished By Their Long, Com Pressed • Fin-shaped, Non-retractile Feet, With The Toes Inclosed In A Common Skin, From Which Only One Or Two Claws Pro Ject. The Carapace Is Broad And Much Depressed So ...
Tyler Insurrection
Tyler Insurrection, A Popular Revolt In England During The Minority Of Richard Ii., Headed By Wat Tyler, A Soldier Who Had Served In The French Wars, And Jack Straw, An Essex Peasant. Its Immediate Occasion Was The Imposition In 1381 Of A Poll Tax Of Three Goats On Every Adult, ...
Type
Type, A Rectangular Solid Of Metal, Wood, Or Other Hard Material Having A Raised Letter, Figure, Punctuation Mark, Or Other Character On The Upper End, Which, When Inked, Is Used To Make Im Pressions On Paper And Other Smooth Sur Faces; The Term Is Also Used Collectively. Types Must Be ...
Type Setting Machines
Type-setting Machines, Me Chanical Devices For Setting Type. The First Record Of Type-setting Machinery Was Made In The English Patent Office In 1794. In 1822, W. Church, Of Connecti Cut, Took Out A Patent For A Machine Hav Ing A Keyboard, The Manipulation Of Which Guided Freshly Cast Type To ...
Typewriter
Typewriter, A Machine Fitted With Types Which Print By A Pressure On The Keys With The Fingers. The Principle, Briefly Stated, Is That Of A Series Of Rods Pivoted To Keyed Rods, Similar To The Ac Tion Of A Pianoforte, The Ends Of The Rods Carrying The Characters Of The ...
Typhoid Fever
Typhoid Fever, In Pathology, A Kind Of Continued Fever Which Is Known By Many Names. It Was Called "typhoid" And "abdominal Typhus" From Its Sup Posed Resemblance To Typhus Or Jail Fever. It Is Often Known As "low Fever" And "slow Fever," From Its Duration; And As "autumnal" Or "fall" ...
Typhus Fever
Typhus Fever, A Contagious Fever, Which Occurs Mainly In Temperate And Cold Climates, And Often Rages As An Epidemic. It Is Also Known As "spotted," "epidemic," Or "contagious" Fever, And Was Formerly Called "camp" Or "gaol" Fever From Its Prevalence In Camps And Prisons. It Is Most Prevalent Among Fe ...
Typographical Union
Typographical Union, A Society Of Compositors Banded Together For Mu Tual Protection, For The Regulation Of Wages, Fixing The Number Of Apprentices Allowed To Each Establishment, The Length Of Time Each Apprentice Must Serve In Order To Become A Master Workman, And For Extending General Aid To The Mem Bers ...
Tyre
Tyre, In Ancient Geography, A Fa Mous City Of Antiquity, On The Coast Of Phoenicia, 24 Miles To The S. Of Sidon. The First City Of Tyre Was Built On The Mainland, But The Second And More Im Portant City Was Erected On An Island About A Mile Long, Running ...
Tyrol
Tyrol, A Crown-land Of The Former Austrian Empire; Now A Part Of The Re Public Of Austria And Of Italy; Between Bavaria On The N., Switzerland On The W., Italy On The S., And Salzburg And Carinthia On The E.; And Embracing An Area Of 10,302 Square Miles, To Which ...
Tzu Hi Or Tzi Hi Tze Hsi
Tze-hsi, Tzu-hi. Or Tzi-hi, A Cel Ebrated Empress Of China, Born In Pe King, In 1835. She Was Known As The Great Empress Dowager, And Ruled China For Half A Century. The Name Of Her Family Was Hweicheng, Belonging To The Nara Or Nala Clan, From Which She Derived The ...
Uganda Protectorate
Uganda Protectorate, A Brit Ish Protectorate In East Africa; Extend Ing Along The N. W. Shore Of The Vic Toria Nyanza, And Lying On Both Sides Of The Equator; Area 121,437 Square Miles; Pop. About 3,000,000. It Was First Vis Ited (in 1862) By Speke And Grant, And By Stanley ...
Ukraine
Ukraine. Meaning Literally "the Frontier Region," Including A Large Part Of Southern Russia, Eastern Galicia, Northwestern Bukovina And Northeastern Hungary. The Portion Included In South Ern Russia Is Also Known As Little Russia. The People Are Quite Distinct In Character And In Their Speech From The Big Rus Sians Of ...
Ulcer
Ulcer, A Word Derived From The Latin Tams, A "wound." Ulcers May Be Ar Ranged Either According To The Constitu Tional Or Specific Disease From Which They Are Derived, Or According To The Charac Ters Which They Present. According To The First System Ulcers Are Spoken Of As Healthy, Inflammatory, ...
Ulema
Ulema, The Collective Name (which Cannot Be Used As A Singular) Of The Body Of Professional Theologians And Doctors Of Divinity, And Therefore Of Law, In Any Mohammedan Country. They Form The Legal And Judicial Class, And Interpret The Koran And The Law Derived There From; They Also Constitute Whatever ...
Ultramarine
Ultramarine, A Brilliant Blue Color, In Very Extensive Use By Painters, Paper Stainers, Calico Printers, And Others. The Substance Previous To The Year 1828 Was Obtained Only From Lazulite Or Lapis Lazuli, A Beautiful And Costly Mineral Substance. The Mineral Being Rare, And Much Prized For Ornamental In Laying, And ...
Ulysses
Ulysses, In Heroic History, One Of The Most Renowned Of The Greek Heroes. Ulysses Was The King Of Ithaca, One Of The Small Ionian Isles, The Husband Of The Exemplary Penelope, And Father Of Tele Machus. Ulysses Was Not Only A Prudent Warrior, But A Sage Counsellor, And Was As ...
Unemployment
Unemployment, A Social Problem Which Had Its Origin In The Institution Of The Factory System Of Industry. While The Commodities Used For General Con Sumption Could Be Manufactured Or Pre Pared By Hand Workers, Each Possessing His Own Hand Tools, Each Worker Was At Least Sure Of Continual Employment, Whatever ...
Unicorn
Unicorn, An Animal Having A Single Horn, Frequently Mentioned By Greek And Latin Authors. Ctesias Calls It The Wild Ass, And Aristotle The Indian Ass. Ctesias Describes The Wild Ass As Being About The Size Of A Horse, With A White Body, Red Head, And Blue Eyes, Having A Horn ...
Unit
Unit, In Arithmetic, The Least Whole Number Or One, Represented By The Figure 1. Numbers Are Collections Of Things Of The Same Kind, Each Of Which Is A Unit Of The Collection. Thus 20 Feet Is A Col Lection Of 20 Equal Spaces, Each Of Which Is Equal To 1 ...
Unitarian Church
Unitarian Church, A Communion Comprising All Who Maintain That God Exists In One Person Only. The Name Unitarian Is Applied Specially To A Small Christian Sect Whose Distinguishing Tenet Is The Unity As Opposed To The Trinity Of The Godhead. In The More General Sense The Name Of Course Includes ...
United Presbyterian Church
United Presbyterian Church, A Religious Body In Scotland, Constituted In 1847 By The Amalgamation Of The "secession" And "relief" Churches. At First Composed Of Only Four Minis Ters, The "secession Church" Rapidly Be Gan To Gather Strength. Little Christian Societies Were Everywhere Formed, Which Were Gradually Supplied With Pastors Either ...
United States Of America
United States Of America, A Federal Republic, Composed Of 48 States, The District Of Columbia, The District Of Alaska, The Territories Of Hawaii And Porto Rico, The Philippine Islands, Guam, Tutuila, The Panama Canal Zone, And The Virgin Islands; Chiefly Occupying The Temperate Portions Of North America From Lat. 24° ...
Universalist Church
Universalist Church, A Com Munion Holding The Doctrine That All Men, And Also The Devil And Fallen Angels, Will Be Forgiven And Will Enjoy Eternal Happi Ness. This Belief Is Very Ancient, And Passages Implying It May Be Found In The Works Of Origen And His Followers, Greg Ory Of ...
Universit Y Settlements
Universit Y Settlements, Houses In The Poor Districts Of Cities Where Educated Men And Women Live And Come In Contact With The Working Classes For Social, Educational, And Civic Pur Poses. These Settlements Provide Clubs, And Offer A Home And Recreation For Wage-earners. The Idea Of The University Settlement Grew ...
University Extension
University Extension. The Term "university Extension" Was Origi Nally Applied To A Movement Designed To Extend University Instruction Beyond Campus Limits, Or As Was Sometimes Said To "carry The University To The People." It Made The College Campus Co-extensive With The State And Enlarged The Student Body By The Admission ...
Urban Transportation
Urban Transportation, Trans Portation From One Part Of A City To An Other. In The Early Days Such Trans Portation Was Provided By Horse-drawn Vehicles, And One Of The First Innovations Was The Use Of The Rail. The Introduc Tion Of Steam And Of Other Methods Of Transportation Without The ...
Urea
Urea, One Of The Few Organic Bases Of Animal Origin. It Forms An Essential Constituent Of The Urine Of All Animals, And Is Most Abundant In That Of The Mammalia, Particularly So In The Case Of The Carnivora. It Is The Principal Out Let Of Nitrogen From The System, After ...
Uric Acid
Uric Acid, A Very Important Ex Crementitious Product, Which Occurs In Small Quantities In Human Urine, To The Extent Of Rather Less Than 1 Per Cent. Of The Solid Matter Contained In It. It Is Met With In Much Greater Abundance In The Excrement Of Birds And Reptiles, That Of ...
Urine
Urine, The Secretion Of The Kidneys, The Chief Fluid Excretion Of Man And Of The Higher Animals. Healthy Human Urine Is A Transparent Light Amber Colored Liquid, Having A Saline Taste, A Peculiar Aromatic Odor, An Acid Reaction, And A Density Varying From 1.010 To 1.025. Its Chief Constituents Are ...
Ursa Major
Ursa Major, In Astronomy, The Great Bear, The Most Conspicuous Of The 20 Ancient Northern Constellations, Its Seven Leading Stars Attracting Notice All The More Conspicuously That There Is A Certain Absence Of Visible Heavenly Bodies In The Adjacent Parts Of The Sky. The Semitic Conception Of The Constellation Was ...
Ursulines
Ursulines, Members Of One Of Those Religious Orders Which Resulted From The Rise Of The Roman Church Of The Evan Gelical Zeal Which Was So Remarkable A Reflex Effect Of The Reformation. An Gela Or Angelica Merici (1470-1540), A Poor Maiden Of Desenzano, Was Their Founder. She Began In That ...
Uruguay
Uruguay, A Republic Of South Amer Ica; Bounded On The N. And N. E. By Brazil, E. And S. E. By The Atlantic Ocean, S. By The Rio De La Plata, And W. By The Uruguay, Which Last-named Rivers Separate The State From The Ar Gentine Confederation. Uruguay Has An ...
Utah
Utah, A State In The Western Divi Sion Of The North American Union; Bounded By Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, And Idaho; Admitted To The Union, Jan. 4, 1896; Number Of Counties, 27; Capital, Salt Lake City; Area 84,990 Square Miles; Pop. (1890) 210,779; (1900) 276,749; (1910) 373,351; (1920) 449,396. Topography.—the ...
Uterus
Uterus, In Comparative Anatomy, A Dilation In The Walls Of The Oviduct For The Preservation Or Development Of The Ova. In Birds, Although The Ova Are Developed Externally, The Term Uterus Is Often Applied To That Cavity Where The Eggs Receive The Shell. In Most Of The Viviparous Fishes, And ...
Utica
Utica, A City Of New York. The Coun Ty-seat Of Oneida Co. It Is On The Mohawk River, The State Barge Canal, And On The New York Central, The New York, On Tario And Western, The Delaware, Lacka Wanna And Western, The Adirondack And St. Lawrence, And The West Shore ...
Utilitarianism
Utilitarianism, That Theory Of Life Which Represents Happiness As The Only Ultimate End To Be Devised And Sought After—not Necessarily The Happi Ness Of The Individual, But That Of The Human Race As A Totality, And "even As Far As Possible Of The Sentient Crea Tion"—in Bentham's Phrase "the Great ...
Uvularia
Uvularia, A Genus Of Plants, Order Liliacex. The Mealy Bellwort, U. Per Foliate, Is A Handsome, Smooth Plant, Found In Woods In The United States And Canada; Stem 10-14 Inches High, Pass Ing Through The Perfoliate Leaves Near Their Bases, And Dividing Into Two Branches At Top; Flowers Pale-yellow. V, ...
Vacuum
Vacuum, In Physics, A Portion Of Space Void Of Matter. The Possibility Of The Existence Of A Perfect Vacuum Has Been A Favorite Subject Of Discussion Among Metaphysicians; And That The Neg Ative View Was Popular Is Indicated By The Historical Phrase "the Vacuum Which Nature Abhors." Descartes Asserted That ...
Valencia
Valencia, A Seaport Of Spain, For Merly Capital Of The Kingdom, And Now Of The Province Of The Same Name; On The Shores Of The Mediterranean; 3 Miles From The Mouth Of The Guadalaviar And 200 Miles S. W. Of Barcelona. In The Huerta ("garden") Surrounding The City Carob, Citron, ...
Valerian
Valerian, The Type Genus Of Vase Rianacem; An Order Of Herbs Of Rarely Shrubs Belonging To The Division Of Mono Petalous Dicotyledons Having The Sta Mens Arising From The Petals. The Order Is Distinguished From Its Congeners By The Opposite Leaves; Small Irregular Flow Ers In Which The Corolla Lobes ...
Vancouver
Vancouver, A City In British Co Lumbia, ; On Burrard Inlet, At The W. Ter.ninus Of The Canadian Pacific Railway . It Is The Largest And Most Im Portant City And Seaport In British Co Lumbia, With One Of The Finest Harbors In The World. It Has Daily Communica Tion ...
Vancouver Island
Vancouver Island, An Island Be Longing To British Columbia; In Lat. 48° 19'-50°53' N. And Ion. 123° 17'428° 28' W.; Is Separated From The Mainland By Queen Charlotte Sound, Johnstone Strait, And Strait Of Georgia, Which Taken To Gether Form An Open Sea Way. The Island Is 275 Miles In ...
Vanilla
Vanilla, A Genus Of Epiphytal Orchiclex, Natives Of Tropical America And Asia. They Are Distinguished From Most Other Orchids By Their Climbing Habit; They Cling With Their Aerial Roots To The Stems Of Trees Or To Rocks, Attain The Height Of 20 Or 30 Feet, And Obtain Their Chief Sustenance ...
Vapor
Vapor, In Physics, An Aeriform Fluid Into Which Some Volatile Substance Is Changed By The Action Of Heat. Vapor Is Essentially The Same As Gas, But The Word Vapor Is Conventionally Limited To The Gaseous State Of A Body Which Is Liquid Or Solid At Ordinary Temperatures, While The Term ...
Varicose Veins
Varicose Veins. When A Vein Be Comes Dilated At A Certain Part Of Its Course, For No Apparent Physiological Object, Such As Relieving The Venous Cir Culation Elsewhere (as, For Example, In The Case Of The Superficial Abdominal Veins Enlarging In Order To Relieve A Com Pressed Vena Cava), It ...
Vauban
Vauban, Stbastien Le Pres Tre De, A Military Engineer And Mar Shal Of France; Born In Saint Leger Du Fougeret, Burgundy, May 15, 1633. Left A Destitute Orphan At 10 He Was Brought Up By The Village Curd, And At 17 Enlisted In The Regiment Of Conde, Then In League ...
Vaucluse
Vaucluse (vo-kluzr), A Department In The S. E. Of France; Bounded On The W. By The Rhone, And On The S. Separ Ated By The Durance From Bouches Du Rhone; Area, 1.381 Square Miles; Pop. About 250,000. The E. Is Intersected By Spurs Of The Alps; In The W. Are ...
Vector
Vector, In Mathematics, The Same As Radius Vector (q. V.). Also A Directive Quantity, As A Straight Line, A Force, Or A Velocity. The Simplest Manner In Which To Represent Such A Quantity, Which In Volves Both Direction And Magnitude, Is By Means Of A Straight Line In Space. Then ...
Vegetarianism
Vegetarianism, A System Popu Larly Designated As Limiting The Human Diet To Foods Obtained From The Vegetable Kingdom Exclusively, And Abstaining From An Foods Obtained From The Animal Kingdom. This Is An Approximately Cor Rect Definition Of What Was Meant By The Word When The Vegetarian Society Was Founded In ...
Vein
Vein, In Anatomy, One Of A Number Of Thin Ramifying Elastic Tubes Arising In The Extremities Of The Body, And Pro Ceeding By A More Or Less Direct Course To The Heart, To Which They Carry Back The Blood Sent Forth By The Arteries And Transferred To Them By The ...
Velocity
Velocity, In All Its Significance, Involves The Notion Of Direction Of Motion As Well As That Of Speed Or Rate Of Mo Tion. The Notion Of Speed Is A Very Familiar One. In Measuring It We As Sume The Possibility Of Measuring Space And Time; And The Unit Of Speed ...
Vendome
Vendome (vong-domi), A Town Of France; In The Department Of Loir-et Cher; On The Loir; 42 Miles N. N. E. Of Tours And 111 S. W. Of Paris. Above It Rise The Picturesque Ruins Of The Castle Of The Dukes Of Vendome, Destroyed At The Revolution, And Within The Town ...
Venezuela
Venezuela, A Republic In The N. E. Part Of South America; Bounded On The N. Ly The Caribbean Sea; On The W. By The United States Of Columbia; On The S. By Brazil; And On The E. By British Guiana; Lat. 1° 20' To 12° 25' N., Ion. 59° 54' ...
Venezuelan Boundary
Venezuelan Boundary Di• Bute, In 1855 A Crisis Arose Between Great Britain And Venezuela Regarding The Boundary Line Separating The Latter Country From British Guiana—a Ques Tion Which Had Been Long In Dispute. The Controversy Dated Back To 1814, When Great Britain Acquired By Treaty With The Netherlands The Province ...
Venice
Venice, A Celebrated City Of North. Eastern Italy, Capital Of The Above Prove Ince And Of The Former Venetian Repub Lic; Near The N. Extremity Of The Adriatic, 70 Miles W. Of Trieste. The City Is Built Entirely On Piles Driven Into About 117 Small Islands Situated In The Shallow ...
Venus
Venus, In Astronomy, The Second Of The Known Inferior Planets, If The Ar Rangement Be Made According To Their Relative Distances From The Sun. With The Exception Of The Moon Venus Is Near Est Of All The Heavenly Bodies To The Earth, And, When Near Its Extreme E. Or W. ...
Verb
Verb, In Grammar, That Part Of Speech Which Predicates Something In Regard To Something Else (the Subject Or Thing Spoken Of) ; As, The Man Lives, The Boy Threw A Stone. Verbs Affirm Ac Tion Or Existence Of A Subject Under Cer Tain Conditions Or Relations Called Voice, Mood, And ...
Vergil Publics Vergilms Maro
Vergil (publics Vergilms Maro) , The First Of Latin Poets; Born In Andes Near Mantua, Oct. 15, 70 B. C. The Plain Of Lombardy Then Lay Outside The Limits Of Italy, And Formed A Province Known As Cisalpine Gaul. The Population Was Mainly Celtic, But Was Already Per Meated By ...
Vermont
Vermont, A State In The North At Lantic Division Of The North American Union; Bounded By Quebec, New Hamp Shire, Massachusetts, And New York; Admitted To The Union, March 4, 1791; Number Of Counties, 14; Capital, Mont Pelier; Area, 9,564 Square Miles; Pop. (1890) 332,422; (1900) 343,641; (1910) 355,956; (1920) ...
Verona
Verona, An Ancient City Of Northern Italy; Capital Of The Province Of The Same Name; Picturesquely Situated At The Foot Of The Tyrolese Alps, And On Both Banks Of The Adige; 72 Miles W. By N. Of Ven Ice. It Is A Member Of The Famous Quad Rilateral, Having Fortifications ...
Versailles
Versailles, A City Of France; Capi Tal Of The Department Of Seine-et-oise; On A Plain 11 Miles S. W. Of Paris. A City More Of Pleasure Than Of Industry, Long Accustomed To Find Its Sustenance In The Expenditures Of A Luxurious Court, And Subsequently A Place Of Residence For Many ...
Vertebra
Vertebra, In Comparative Anatomy, One Of The Bony Segments Of Which The Spine, Or Backbone, Consists. Theoreti Cally, A Typical Vertebra Consists Of A Central Piece Or Body, From Which Two Arches Are Given Off, One (the Neural), Protecting The Nervous System, The Other (the Hamal) Protecting The Organs Of ...
Vertebrata
Vertebrata, In Zoology, A Division Of The Animal Kingdom, Instituted By La Marck, Comprising Animals In Which The Body Is Composed Of A Number Of Defi Nite Segments, Arranged Along A Longitu Dinal Axis; The Nervous System Is In 14 Main Masses Dorsal, And The Neural And Hamal Regions Of ...
Vesta
Vesta, An Ancient Goddess, Called Hestia By The Greeks. According To The Traditions Of That People She Was A Virgin Divinity, And Watched Over The Fire That Burned On The Household Hearth, Which Was Looked On As Her Shrine. Something Sacred Attached To This Part Of The House. It Was ...
Vesuvius
Vesuvius, A Volcanic Mountain In The Bay Of Naples; Supposed To Have Been Heaved Up From The Submarine Level Where It Was Formed. Besides The Shells Which Indicate Its Sea Origin, It Contains Erratic Blocks Of Limestone From The Higher Apennine Offshoot, Monte Som Ma, Which, In An Irregular Semicircle, ...
Veterinary Medicine
Veterinary Medicine, That Branch Of Medical Science Which Em Braces The Treatment Of Diseased Do Mestic Animals, And The Preservation Of Their Health. It Has Evidently Been Practiced From The Earliest Times; And There Is Every Reason To Suppose That The Study Of Disease In The Inferior Ani Mals Was ...
Veto
Veto, The Power Which One Branch Of The Legislature Of A State Has To Nega Tive The Resolutions Of Another Branch; Or The Right Of The Executive Branch Of Government, Such As King, President, Or Governor, To Reject The Bills, Measures, Or Resolutions Proposed By The Legisla Ture. In Great ...
Victor Emmanuel Ii
Victor Emmanuel Ii., King Of Italy, Son Of Charles Albert, King Of Sardinia ; Born In Turin, Italy, March 14, 1820. While Heir Apparent, He Fought In The Campaign Against The Austrians, Which, Terminating In The Disastrous Battle Of Novara, Caused His Father To Abdicate. He Became King In 1849, ...
Victoria
Victoria, Queen Of The United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Ireland And Empress Of India, Only Child Of Edward, Duke Of Kent (fourth Son Of George Iii.) ; Born In Kensington Pal Ace, May 24, 1819. Her Mother, Victoria Maria Louisa (1786-1861), Was The Daughter Of Francis, Duke Of Saxe ...
Victoria Regia
Victoria Regia, A Genus Of Euryalidz, Akin To Euryale, From Which It Differs By The Sepals Being Deciduous, By The Petals Gradually Passing Into Stamens, And By The Cells Of The Ovary Being More Numerous. Species, One Or Three. The Type Is Victoria Regia, Named By Lindley After Queen Victoria. ...