1 Pound
Pound, (1) An English Weight Of Two Dif Ferent Donominations, Avoirdupois And Troy. Since 1856 The Legal Original Standard Weight In Great Britain And Her Colonies Has Been The Im Perial Pound Avoirdupois, A Cylindrical Mass Of Platinum, Grooved Near The Top And Bearing The Mark P. S. 1844 1 ...
182 Pittsburgh
182 Pittsburgh Attended And Maintained By The Colored Popula Tion, 20 Of These Being Baptist And 11 Methodist. Many Of The Church Edifices Are Large And Some Very Beautiful And Costly. Saint Paul's Catholic Cathedral, Situated At The Corner Of Fifth Avenue And Craig Street, Is A Very Large And ...
Agricultural Chemistry
Agricultural Chemistry. A Bug Of Any Of Several Families Of Hemiptera, Which Obtain Their Food By Sucking The Juices Of Plants Through Beak Like Mouths. The Largest Group Is The Family Consisting Of At Least 1,500 Species, Some Of Which Are Dreaded Pests Of Cultivated Crops And Trees. Two Well-known ...
Alicaline Solution
Alicaline Solution Sodium Carbonate (crystals) 125 Grams Water 500 C. C. For A Developer, 30 C.c. Of Pyro Solution And 30 C.c. Of Alkaline Solution Are Put Into 185 To 305 C. C. Of Water. It Was Found About This Time To Obtain The Best Results On Plates Having Had ...
Answer Plea Pleading Replication
Answer; Plea; Pleading; Replication). The Court Then Directed The Attendance Of The Par Ties And Witnesses At The Trial, Which Was A For Mal Examination Of The Material Facts, Usually Before A Jury. (see Juav; Trial). After Ver Dict Various Remedies Were Provided For The Unsuccessful Party. For Instance, He ...
Appeal
Appeal. Criminal Procedure In England To-day Is Founded Largely On The Old System At Common ,law In Civil Cases, Which Was Superseded By The Judicature Acts, Dating From 1873. The Arrest Of The Defendant, Usually By Warrant, Generally Follows An Indictment By A Grand Jury In The Case Of The ...
Derived Proteins
Derived Proteins. Primary Protein Derivatives.— Those Formed From The Protein Molecule Apparently Through Hydrolytic Changes, With But Slight Al Teration In The Protein Molecule: Embracing (1) Proteins—insoluble Products Of The Action Of Water, Very Dilute Acids Or Enzymes; (2) Metaproteins — Products Of Such Action Of Acids And Alkalis As ...
Description History
History, Description, Antiquities, Etc.: Adam (madame) (la Patrie Portugaise> (paris 1896; Aldama-ayala,
Diseases Caused By The
Diseases Caused By The Non-living Environment. From What Has Been Said In Previous Para Graphs, It Is Evident That Unfavorable Physical And Chemical Conditions Of The Soil, Excessive Dryness Or Moisture Of The Soil Or Atmosphere, Unfavorable Conditions Of Temperature, Light, Etc., May Cause Derangements Resulting In Temporary Or Chronic ...
E A Carman
E. A. Carman. Port-roi'al, A Cistercian Convent In France, Which Played An Important Part In The Jansenist Controversy (see Jansen Ism). It Was Founded In 1204 By Mahaut De Garlande, Wife Of Matthieu De Montmorency, Was Situated Near Chevreuse In The Yvette Val Ley, At What Is Now Called Les ...
Egru Pich
Pich,egru, Charles, Shiirl Pesh-gril, French General: B. Arbois, Of Jura, 16 Feb. 1761; D. Paris, April 1804. He Was For Some Time A Tutor At The College Of Brienne, But Soon Exchanged This Profession For That Of A Soldier And Served With A French Artillery Regiment. He Was Chosen The ...
Geometrical Probartlity
Geometrical Probartlity. In What Precedes It Has Been Assumed Except In One Case That The Number Of Equally Probable Events Governing The Event E Is Finite. The Definition May Be Extended To Include The Case In Which The Number Of Events Is Infinite Pro Vided Appropriate Measures For The Totalities ...
Icbcob
Icbcob Ca( Oh) 2 2koh Cac0s. The Calcium Carbonate (cacob) That Is Formed At The Same Time Is Practically Insoluble And May Be Removed By Filtration. The Solution Is Then Evaporated To Dryness And The Resulting Hydrate Of Potassium Is Finally Melted And Cast Into Sticks In Metallic Molds. Potassium ...
John Hubert Cornyn
John Hubert Cornyn, Editorial Staff Of The Americana. Provencal Literature Made Its Appearance In Southern France Toward The Close Of The 11th Century; Although Previous To This Date There Undoubtedly Existed Ballad And Other Verse In The Vernacular Of The Masses, Which Seems To Have Been Handed Down From One ...
Language
Language : Aulete, Caldas, Contemparaneo Da Lingue Portu Gueza) (lisbon 1881) ; Coelho, F. A., (theoria Da Conjugacio Em Latim Et (ib. 1870) ; Id., (a Lingua Portugueza' (porto 1881) ; Id., Manual Etymologico Da Lingua Portugueza' (lisbon 1890) ; Cornu, Jules, (die Portugiesische Sprache (in Groeber Der Romanischen Strass ...
Liter Ature And Portuguese
Portuguese Language, Liter Ature And The Portuguese Is One Of The Romance Family Of Languages, Formed By The Junction Of The Latin-speaking Celts With The Teutonic Races. Words Of Greek, Phoenician, Iberian, Celtic And Carthaginian Origin Are Found In Portuguese As In Spanish, Indicating The Relations Into Which Commerce Or ...
Literature
Literature: Almeida-garrett, 'bosquejo Da Historia Da Poesia E Lingua Portugueza' (in Lusitano,' Vol. I, Paris 1826) ; Bell, A. F. G., 'studies In Portuguese Literature' (oxford 1914) ; Bellermann, C. F., 'die Alten Liederbiicher Der Portugiesen' (berlin 1840) ; Braga, Theophilo, Da Litteratura Portugueza' (32 Vols., Oporto And Lisbon 1870 ...
Mandrake Podophyllum
Podophyllum, Mandrake, Or May-apple, Genus Of Hardy Perennial Herbs Of The Family Berberidacece. The Four Species Are Natives, Two Of China, One Of The Himalayas And One Of North America. The Last Species Grows About 15 Inches Tall, Bears One Or Two Dark Green Leaves; In The Axil Of Two-leaved ...
Marquis De Las Castillejos
Reuss, Marquis De Las Castillejos, Spanish General And Statesman : B. Reuss, Catalonia, 6 Dec. 1814; D. Madrid, 30 Dec. 1870. Destined For The Law, He Entered The The Teers In The Cause Of The Infant Queen Isabella On The Outbreak Of The Civil War, Which In 1833 Followed The ...
Mathematical Expectation
Mathematical Expectation. A Person Who Has A Possibility Of Securing Without Cost A Property Of Any Sort Places Upon That Possibility A Value Which Depends Upon That Of The Property And Upon The Probability Of His Securing It. In Our Subject A Definite Valuation Is Placed Upon Such A Possibility. ...
N H Portsmouth
Portsmouth, N. H., City, One Of The County-seats Of Rockingham County, On The Piscataqua River Near Its Mouth, And On The Boston And Maine Railroad, 57 Miles North Of Boston. It Was First Settled In 1623 By A Com Pany Under The Direction Of Fernando Gorges, And Was Under The ...
N J Princeton
Princeton, N. J., Battle Of, In The American Revolution. After The Battle Of Trenton (q.v.), Washington Recrossed The Dela Ware And On 2 Jan. 1777 Occupied Trenton With Strong Outposts At Bordentown And Crosswicks. General Grant, Commanding The British Troops At New Brunswick, 30 Miles Distant, Was Joined By Lord ...
N Y Port Jervis
Port Jervis, N. Y., City In Orange County, On The Delaware And Neversink Rivers, Where The States Of New York, New Jersey And Pennsylvania Meet, And On The New York, Ontario And Western Railroads, 88 Miles Northwest Of New York Gty. It Was Settled In The Last Of The 18th ...
N Y Potsdam
Potsdam, N. Y., Village In Saint Law Rence County, On The Raquette River, And On The New York Central And Hudson River Rail Road, About 20 Miles From The Saint Lawrence River And 30 Miles West Of Malone. In 1786 The State Of New York Created A Land Com Mission ...
Photogravure
Photogravure, Firto-gra-viie, A Process Of Engraving In Which, By The Aid Of Photography, Subjects Are Reproduced As Plates Suited For Printing In A Copper-plate Press. The Process Known As Heliogravure Is Essentially The Same. See Pficao-exclitivilic. That Depart Ment Of Photo-engraving In Which The Plates Are In Intaglio. See Photo-engraving. ...
Photometry
Photometry Is The Art Of Comparing The Intensity Of A Source Of Light With That Of Another Source Which Is Taken As A Standard. The Possibility Of Making Such Comparisons De Pends Upon The Power Of Determining By Means Of The Eye When Two Neighboring Fields Of View, Illuminated Respectively ...
Photomicrograph
Photomicrograph. A Photomicro Graph Is A Photograph Of A Microscopically Small Object. The Term Microphotograph Is Sometimes Used, But Is Very Inaccurate, And Should Be Used Only To Designate A Very Small Photograph; E.g., A Photograph An Eighth Of An Inch Square Of The Niagara Falls Is A Micro Photograph. ...
Photophone
Photophone, The Name Given An Ap Paratus For Transmitting Articulate Speech To A Distance Along A Beam Of Light. It Was First De Scribed In 1880 By Alexander Graham Bell, Known In Connection With The Telephone, At The Boston Meeting Of The American Association; But Already In 1878 Its Inventor ...
Photoplay
Photoplay, The Technical Name Given To A Moving-picture Which Presents A Complete Drama. The Conditions Under Which A Moving Picture Is Made And Exhibited Place The Photo Play In A Distinct Class By Itself. It Cannot, Like The Novel, Short Story, Or The Regular Theatrical Play Depend Upon Language To ...
Photosynthesis
Photosynthesis, The Synthesis Of Chemical Compounds By The Action Of Light. The Broader Subject Of Photochemistry Includes All Chemical Reactions That Are Induced Or Main Tained By The Action Of Light, Whether They Result In True Synthesis Or Not; But Photosynthesis, In The Strict Sense, Is A Constructive Process, Re ...
Phrenology
Phrenology (greek, Phren, Mind; Logos, Discourse), The Science Which Teaches That There Exists A Relation Between The Several Faculties Of The Mind And Particular Regions Of The Brain, And That These Are The Organs Of Those Faculties; In Accordance With This Theory Phrenologists Chart The Cranium Of Man In Sec ...
Phrygia
Phrygia, Friri-a, In Ancient Geography, A Country Of Asia Minor, Occupying The Central Plateau West Of The Halys And The Interior Desert, But Otherwise Very Ill-defined, Since The Country Varied Much At Different Times And In General Was An Ethnological Rather Than A Geographical Term, As It Was Applied To ...
Phyllopoda
Phyllopoda, The Most Primitive Group Of Existing .crustacea. The Name Refers To The Feet, Which Are Broad Leaflike Structures, The Thoracic Appendages Being Unjointed, While Those Of The Head Are Typically Arthropodan. The Number Of Segments Of The Body Varies Between Very Wide Limits, Those Of The Abdomen Being Without ...
Physical Crystallography
Physical Crystallography Treats Of The Physical Properties Of Crystals And Their Determination. In General Any Measurable Property Will Yield Results Varying With The Di Rection And Alike Only In Directions Which Are Structurally Equivalent. If These Results Are Represented By Straight Lines Of Proportionate Length In The Given Directions They ...
Physical Training
Physical Training, A Term Used To Indicate The Systematic Development And Main Tenance Of Bodily Power And Health. In The Broad Sense It Includes Gymnastic And Athletic Exercise, Active Sports, Personal, Public And School Hygiene. While The Term Is Often Used In Its Broad Sense As Health Training, This Article ...
Or Draw Poker Poker
Poker, Or Draw-poker, A Card Game Said To Have Originated In The United States, And Of Which There Are Several Varieties, The Most Common Being Draw-poker, Played With A Pack Of 52 Cards And Any Number Of Players. The Game Begins By The Dealer Staking A Sum Agreed On, Called ...
Or Hyperemia Plethora
Plethora, Or Hyperemia, A Con Dition Of Overfulness Of The Blood-vascular Sys Tem, A Condition In Which There Is Obvious Ex Cess Of Blood In The Body. It Can Hardly Be Called A Disease. That Is To Say, The Quantity Of Blood May Be In Excess Of The Normal, But ...
Or Penuchle Pinocle
Pinocle, Or Penuchle, A Game Of Cards Very Popular Among The Germans In America. The Object Of The Game, Which May Be Joined In By Either Two, Three, Or Four Persons, Is To Secure 1,000 Points. The Game Is Played With Two Full Packs Of Cards, Mixed, From Which The ...
Or Phys Iologie Du
Physiology Of Taste, Or Phys Iologie Du Gout. This Work May Be Compared In A Distant Way To The Angler) Of Isaak Walton. It Is A Similar Repertory Of Information, Precept, Anecdote And Personal Reflection, A Similar Stream Of Pleasant Talk By A Charming Companion Who Discourses Most Entertainingly Of ...
Or Pinnated Grouse Prairie
Prairie Chicken, Or Pinnated Grouse, A Familiar Western Gamebird (tym Panuchus Americanus). The Genus Tympanuchus (or Cupidonia) Is Particularly Well Characterized By A Large Patch Of Naked Yellow Skin On Each Side Of The Neck, Ordinarily Concealed By A Tuft Of Narrow-pointed Feathers Attached To The Skin At Its Anterior ...
Or Porsenna Porsena
Porsena, Or Porsenna, A Lars (or "mighty Lord"), King Of The Etru Rian City Of Clusium. According To The Legend Narrated By Livy, He Received The Tarquins On Their Expulsion From Rome (ac.) 508, And After Endeavoring In Vain To Effect Their Restoration By Negotiation, Advanced With An Army To ...
Or Postulates
Postulates, Or Axioms, Are Sets Of Propositions Belonging To Mathematical Dis Ciplines From Which The Remaining Propositions Can Be Deduced. Thus The Axioms Of Euclid Constitute A Tentative Set Of Postulates For Ordi Nary Geometry. The Old-fashioned View Was That These Axioms Constitute A Set Of Self Evident Truths, Referring ...
Or Prefet Prefect
Prefect, Or Prefet, The Title Of A High Civil Official In France, Created By A Law Of The 28th Pluviose In The Year Viii (17 Feb. 1800). It Was Derived From The Old Roman Title Praefect (q.v.). There Were 86 Prefects In Modern France, Each At The Head Of The ...
Or Pronghorn Prongbuck
Prongbuck, Or Pronghorn, The American Pronghorned Goat-antelope (antilo Copra Americana), One Of The Two Sole Living Representatives On The American Continent Of The Large Series Of Old World Antelopes (bo Vicke). The Other Being The Rocky Mountain Goat (oreatnnos Mentions:), Which Is More Nearly A True Antelope Than A Goat. ...
Or Pteridospermze
Pteridospermze, Or Pteridosperme/e, In Paleobotany, A Class, Co-ordinate With Gymnosperme And An Giospermee, Of Fossil Paleozoic Fern-like Plants, Including All Such Which On The Evidence Avail Able Appear To Have Been Reproduced By Means Of Seeds. Potonie Called This Class Cycadofilices. And Some Paleobotanists Even Regard The Group As A ...
Or Public Health
Public Health, Or The Health Of The People, I.e., Of Groups Or Communities Of Human Beings, Is To-day A Great And Growing Subject Which May Be Regarded Either As A Science— And Is Then Nearly Or Quite Synonymous With Public Hygiene — Or As A State Or Condition Of The ...
Or Puna Poona
Poona, Or Puna, India, (1) The Capital Of A District Of The Deccan Division, Bombay, At The Confluence Of The Mula And Muta, Tribu Taries Of The Bima In A Plain Nearly 2,000 Feet Above The Sea, 119 Miles Eastward From Bombay By The Great Indian Peninsula Railway. It Is ...
Or Table Lawn Tennis
Ping Pong, Or Table Lawn Tennis, A Game That Was Introduced From England And Became Very Popular In The United States In 1902. The Game Is Played Very Much As Is The Regular Game Of Lawn-tennis. Follow Ing Are The Rules Of The Game, Which Should Be Learned Thoroughly Before ...
Or Trinitrophenol Picric Acid
Picric Acid, Or Trinitrophenol, C4h2oh(no.),(1, 2, 4, 6), Was Discovered By Woulfe In 1771. It Is Formed By The Action Of Nitric Acid On Indigo, Wood, Silk, Leather, Aloes, Resins, And Many Derivatives Of Benzene. On A Commercial Scale Picric Acid Is Manufactured From Phenol By First Treating It With ...
Or Vine Pest Phylloxera
Phylloxera, Or Vine-pest, An American Aphist (phylloxera Vastatrice), De Structive To Grapevines. It Has Four Forms: Sexual, Leaf-gall, Root And Winged. Sexual Female Lays An Egg Upon The Vines During The Autumn. About The Time The Buds Open, The Larva Hatched From This Egg Forms A Gall Upon The Tipper ...
Or Nor Bertines Premonstratensians
Premonstratensians, Or Nor Bertines, A Religious Order, Founded By Norbert, Canon Of Xanten In Cleves, Who On Account Of His Zeal As Archbishop Of Magde Burg In 1127 Was Canonized. In The Forest Of Saint Gobain, In A Meadow Pointed Out To Him, As He Said, By Heaven (premontre, Pratum ...