Leveling
Leveling. In Surveying, The Operation Of Ascertaining The Different Elevations Of Objects On The Surface Of The Earth. Leveling Is Employed To Find The Relative Elevation Of Points A Con Siderable Distance Apart, To Obtain The Profile Of A Line. Or To Establish A Grade. These Objects May He More ...
Levirate Marriage
Lev'irate Marriage (from Lat. /orb-. Gk. Aaiip, Doer. Skt. As. Tacor, 0110. Zeih Hur, Husband's Brother). The Marriage Of A Man To The Widow Of His Deceased Brother. This Was An Ancient Usage Widely Prevalent At Certain Stages Of Civilization, And Rests Ultimately Upon The Circumstance That The Wife As ...
Levite
Le'vite (lat. Lerites. Gk. Areirlic,levifes, From Ileb. Litu-i). The Designation In The Penta Teuch For Servitors Attached To The Sanctuary Of Yahweh. The Usage Of Levite In The • Obs Codes Supposed To He Found In The Pentateuch Differs In An Important Particular. In The Deuteronomic Code The Priests Are ...
Leviticus
Levit'icus (lest. Leritieus, Etk. Acutrix6v, Leritikon, Pertaining, To The Levites, From Acidrns. Lc Rites, Lcviic), Book Oe. The Name Of The Third Book Of The Pentateuch, Derived From The Title Given To It In The Greek Translation, 'the Levitical Book,' As Treating Chiefly Of The Fune Tions Of The Levites, ...
Lewenhaupt
Lewenhaupt, Latven-houpt, Adam Lvdvig (1659-1719). A Swedish General. He Was Horn Near Copenhagen; Studied • At Ppsala, Lund, Rostock. And Wittenberg; Served In The Austrian Army Against The Turks, And Under William Tit. In Holland; And In 1697 Returned To Sweden. In The War Waged By Charles Xii. Against Peter ...
Lewis
Lewis, Sir George Cornewall (1806-63). An English Statesman And Author, Eldest Son Of Sir T. F. Lewis, Of Harpton Court, Radnorshire. He Was Horn In London, April 21, 1806. He Was Educated At Eton And At Christ Church. Ox Where He Was Distinguished For Classics And Mathematics. He Became A ...
Lewis And Clark Expedition
Lewis And Clark Expedition. In American History. An Expedition. Under The Com Mand Of Meriwether Lewis (q.v.) And William Clark (q.v.), Which In 1804-00 Penetrated From The Mississippi River, Through Territory Now Forming Parts Of Missouri. Kansas. Nebraska. South Dakota, North Dakota. Montana. Idaho, Washington. And Oregon. To The Pacific ...
Lewis_2
Lewis, Morgan (1754-1844). An American Soldier And Jurist. He Was Born In New York City, The Son Of Francis Lewis (q.v.), Gradu Ated At Princeton In 1773, And, On The Eve Of The Revolution, Began Reading Law In The Office Of John Jay. He Joined The Continental Army Before Boston ...
Lex Loci
Lex Loci. See Conflict Of Laws. Leyden, Or Leiden, Li'den. One Of The Oldest And Most Famous Cities Of The Netherlands, Situated In The Province Of South Holland, Ou Sev Eral Arms Of The Old Rhine, 22 Miles Southwest Of Amsterdam And Six Miles Inland( Nlap: Nether Lands, C 2). ...
Lexington
Lex'ington. A City And The County-seat Of Payette County, Ky., 98 Miles South Of Cincin Nati. Ohio: On The Chesapeake And Ohio, The Lexington And Eastern. The Louisville And Nash Ville, The Queen And Crescent Route, The South Ern, And Other Railroads (map: Kentucky. G 2). It Is The Centre ...
Lexington_2
Lexington. A Town In Middlesex County. Mass., 11 Miles Northwest Of Boston; On The Boston And Maine Railroad (map: Massachu Setts, E 3). Among The Points Of Interest Are The Cary Library, With 20,000 Volumes, And Fine Marble Statues Of John Hancock And Samuel Adams; A Statue Of Captain Parker: ...
Leys
Leys, Its Or Ia. Hendrik, Baron (1815-69). A Belgian Historical And Genre Painter. He Was Horn At Antwerp, February 18, 1815. In 1829 He Studied With Ferdinand De Braekeleer, His Brother-in-law, And Later With Nvappers, At The Antwerp Academy. Ile Received The Great Gold Medal At The Brussels Academy In ...
Lherzolite
Lherzolite, Ler'zi'elit (named From Lherz, In The Pyren•es): An Igneous Rock Of The Peri Diitite (q.v.) Family. Of Which The Essential Min Erals Are Unitise, Diallage, And An Orthorhombic Pyroxene. Tlt-illat-nie-francols Antoine' De, M :mill Is De Sainte-mesme And Comte D'ent Reniont ( 1661-1704 ). A French Mathematician, Horn In ...
Li Hung Chang
Li Hung Chang, Le Hung, Ebling (1823? 1901). A Chinese Statesman, Born In Lu-ehow, Ngan-hwei Province, February 1 G. 1823 ( Or 1819). Ile Was Highly Educated, And Passed Through The Various Grades Of Scholarship, Receiv Ing The Third Degree (chin Sze) In 1847. In 1849 He Entered The Ilanlin ...
Libanius
Liba'nius (lat., From Gk. A (flci Km A.d. 314-393). One Of The Latest And Most Eminent Of The Greek Sophists Or Rhetoricians. He Was Horn At Antioch. In Syria, Studied At Athens Un Der Various Teachers, And First Set Up A School In Constantinople. Where His Prelections Were So Attractive ...
Libel
Libel. A Term Of The Common Law, Descrip Tive Of That Species Of Defamation (q.v.) Which Is Committed By Writing Or Its Equivalent. It Is A Eriminal Offense As Well As A Civil Wrong. It Consists Of The Publication Of That \\bleb Tends To Bring Another Into Hatred, Contempt. Or ...
Liber Pontificalis
Li'ber Pon'tifica'lis (lat.. Pontifical Hook). A History Of The Bishops Of Rome Pro Fessing To Begin With The Apostle Peter And Extending To Nicholas I. (807), With An Addi Tion Subsequently Made Of The Times Of Adrian Ii. And Stephen Vi. (891). Anastasius, Librarian Of The Church Under Nicolas I. ...
Liber Studiorum
Liber Stu'dio'rum (lat., Book Of Stud Ies). A Set Of Prints From Engraved Plates Pre Pared By J. M. W. Turner From His Own Designs, And Published In Parts Between The Years 1807-16. The Intention Was, Probably, To Issue One Hundred Plates, But Only Seventy-one Were Published, Of Which Number ...
Liberal Republican Party
Liberal Republican Party. In American History, The Name Given To A Short Lived Political Party Which Participated In The Presidential Campaign Of 1872, Composed Largely Of 'bolters' From The Regular Republican Organiza Tion. The Party First Appeared As A Prominent Political Factor In Missouri In 1870, Under The Leadership Of ...
Liberia
Liberia (neo-lat.. From Lat. Fiber, Free). A Negro Republic On The Grain Coast Of West Africa, Bounded On The North By French Guinea. On The East By The French Ivory Coast, On The Southwest By The Atlantic, And On The West By Sierra Leone (map: Africa. D 4). The Coastline ...
Liberty
Liberty, Itimuitors. The Inherent Right Of The Individual To Form His Religious Opinions According To The Dictates Of His Own Eon-demo. And To Give Outward Expression To Them In The Form Of Public Worship Independently Of All Restraint Or Coercion Upon The Part Of The State. It. Includes More Than ...
Liberty Party
Liberty Party. A Political Party Which Existed In The Northern States Of The American Union From 1839 To 1848, And Was The First Regu Lar Organization That Attempted To Oppose Slav Ery By Political Means. The Abolitionist Follow Ers Of William Lloyd Garrison (q.v.) Had Adopt Ed The Doctrine Of ...
Liberty Of The Individual
Liberty Of The Individual. In Dividual Liberty Has Reference To A Sphere Of Ac Tion In Which The Individual Is Referred To His Own Will So Far As The Limitations Of Government Are Concerned. Viewed From One Side It Consists Of Urn Ioinonitics Or Exemptions From The Operation Of Governmental ...
Libraries
Libraries. A Term Applied Indifferently To Buildings Designed To Contain Books, And To The Books Deposited In These Buildings. In The Present Article It Is Used Chiefly In The Latter Sense. Dismal. Though There Were Libraries In An Cient Times In Egypt, No Remains Of These Col Lections Have Been ...
Library Associations And Cm
Library Associations And Cm Bs. The Tirst Convention Of Librarians Was Held In Yew York, September 15-17. 1833. With 53 Delegates. !'he Next Was Held In Philadelphia. October 441. 147n1, With 103 Delegates. At The (dose. The American Library As,oeiation, Of Which The Ohice) Is Promote The Welfare Of Libraries ...
Library Classification
Library Classification. Books Alone Are No More A Library Than Boxes Of Type Or Dictionaries Of Words Are A Collection Of Books Must Be Classified Before It Deserves The Name Library. Classification Is Putting Like Things Together. Each Book, Pamphlet. Clipping. Map. Or Other Item Goes With Any Others Like ...
Library Sciiools And Training
Library Sciiools And Training. When Near The Close Of The Last Century Librarianship Was Recognized As A Profession, It Became Clear That It Had The Same Need For Professional Schools As Law, Medicine, Or Teaching, But. Nowhere Was There Offered Systematic Training For This Impor Tant Field. Alay 7, 1883, ...
Libyan
Libyan, Lit/can (luba, Legate. Egypt. Lebu, .143e€t, Libges). A Branch Of The Stock, Or Linguistic Family. Occupying From Most Ancient Times The North Of Africa Be Tween The Barcau Desert And The Atlantic Ocean. They Include In Morocco Anunirg (berbers). Rifians, And S Elh As (shluhs ) ; In Senegal. ...
License
License. In General, An Authority Given By One Person To Another To Do Certain Acts Which Hut For Such Authority Would Be Unlawful. Spe Cifically. The Term Includes Licenses By A Land Owner To Come Upon Or Otherwise Use His Land And Licenses By Municipal Or Other Authority To Ply ...
Lichens
Lichens, (lat. Lichen, From Gk. Xecxiiv, Nia*, 11011//, Lichen). A Very Large Group It Plants, Mostly Northern And Arctic In Their Distribution, Some Of The Forms Living At The Very Limits Of Vegetation. They Have Gen Erally Flat, Membranous, Or •ruistaveons Bodies, But Some Forms Have Branching Stalks. Lichens Are ...
Licinian Rogations
Licin'ian Rogations (lat. Rogationcs Licinkr, From Royarr, To Ask). A Rogation Was The Term For A Bill Proposed By A Roman Magis Trate For Incorporation In The Laws Of The State. In B.c. 367. After A Struggle Of Almost Ten Years, The Tribunes Licinius Stolo And Lucius Sextius Se Cured ...
Lick Observatory
Lick Observatory. An Astronomical Observatory Situated On Mount Hamilton, An Eminence In The Coast Range. California. 42s5 Feet High. And About 25 Miles East Of San It Is Reaehed By A Carriage Road 20 Miles Long, Hut Of Easy Ascent. The Observatory, Which Was Completed In Isss. Constitutes The Astronomical ...
Lidner
Lidner, 16cvner, Bengt (1757-93). A Swed Ish Poet, Born At Giiteborg. When He Went To The University Of Lund (1774) He Became The Head Of A Coterie Of Youthful Poets. Already Dissi Pated, Be Had To Leave The University At The End Of A Year, And Took His Degree At ...
Liebig
Liebig, Wbik, Jt'sttts Von. Baron I31. One Of The Greatest Chemists Of The Nine Teenth Century. He Was Horn At Darmstadt, Ger Many. The Son Of A Dealer In Dyestuffs. He Early Showed A Strong Predilection For Natural Science. At The Age Of Fifteen He Became Apprenticed To An Apothecary ...
Liechtenstein
Liechtenstein, Letetemstin. An Inde Pendent Principality, Lying Between Austria And Switzerland, With The Exception Of Monaco And San Marino The Smallest Independent State Of Europe. It Is Bounded By Vorarlberg On The North And East, And The Swiss Cantons Of Orisons And Saint-gal) On The South And West. The Area ...
Liege
Liege, Ht-ftzhf (flem. Luik, Ger. Liittieh). The Capital Of The Belgian Province Of The Same Name, And One Of The Most Important Manufac Turing Centres Of Belgium, Situated On Both Banks Of The Meuse At Its Confluence With The Ourthe, In A Region Remarkably Picturesque (map: Belgium. D 4). The ...
Lien
Lien ( Fr. /it A, Bond, From Lat. Ligamen, Band. From Ligare, To Bind). In Law, A Security Or Kohl Over Goods Or Land, And The Right To Retain Or Take The Same For A Debt Which Is Due. Liens Exsit (1) At Co Lllll Ton Law, (2) In Equity, ...
Life Buoy
Life Buoy. A Float Intended To Support Persons Who Have Fallen Into The Water Until Other Assistance Can Reach Them. Those In Com Mon Use Are Large Rings Of Cork-stuffed Canvas, Each About 30 Inches In Diameter With A Lifeline Looped To The Outer Side. The Wearer Gets Within The ...
Life Preservers
Life-preservers. Contrivances Adjust Able To The Body For Buoying Up Persons In The Water. They Are Made Of Various Materials And In Various Forms. The Best Kind Of Ordinary Life-preserver, Such As Is Used On Passenger Ves Sels, Is Made Of Good. Sound Cork Blocks, Or Other Suitable Substance, With ...
Life Saving Guns And Rockets
Life-saving Guns And Rockets. Ordnance U-ed To Tire Line Carrying Projectiles From The Shore To A Wrecked N'? R Vice \ersa. The Lyle Gun. Which Is Mere Generally Used In The L Nited States Than Any Other. Is Described Under Life-san !no: Seri Le Ocean Going Steamers 3 Re Required ...
Life Saving Service
Life-saving Service. The Life-saving Service Of The United States Was Organized Under The Present System In 1s71. Previously. However, A Number Of Small Boat-houses Had Been Located On The Coasts Of Long Island And New ,jersey, Placed In Charge Of Officers Known As Keepers. And Imperfectly Equipped With Boats And ...
Lifeboat
Lifeboat. A Boat Specially Constructed For Saving Persons From Wrecked Or Imperiled Vessels, In Storms Or Heavy Seas, When The Use Of An Ordinary Open Boat Would Be Impossible Or Extremely Dangerous. There Have Been Countless Contrivances For This Purpose. All Varying In Their Types; But Unless A Boat Is ...
Ligament
Ligament (lat. /igamentain, Hand, From Ligare, To Bind). A Cord, Band, Or Membranous Expansion Of Fibrous Tissue Passing In A Fixed Direction From One Bone To Another, And Serving To Limit And Control The Movements Of Joints. Ligaments Are Divided Into Three Classes: (1) Capsular (lrtt. Capsula. A Small Box) ...
Ligature
Ligature (lat. Ligatura, From Uwe, To Bind). A Thread Of Silk. Eatglit. Or Other Material, Tied Around A Blood-vessel To Arrest Hemorrhage Or To Diminish The (low Of Blood To An Aneurism Or Tumor. The Use Of Liga Tures Was Known Many Centuries Ago. The Old Roman Surgeons Using Them ...
Light As
Light (as. Ifobt. Goth. Liuhap, Bolt, Ger. Licht ; Connected With Lat. Lueere, To He Bright, Gk. Xenc6s, Frukog, Bright, Ir. Lorhe, Lightning, Ochureh Slay. Lueho, Beam Of Light, Skt. Rife, To Shine). The Sensation Of Which One Becomes Conscious Through The Optic Nerves. In General The Cause Of This ...
Lighthouse
Lighthouse. A Building On Some Con Spicuous Point Of The Seashore, An Island Or Rock. From Which Light Is Exhibited At Mold As A Guide To Mariners. The Importance Of Such Structures Has Been Since Very Re Mote Times, And The Ancients Devoted Eonsiderable Attention To Lighthouse Construction, But It ...
Lighthouse Board Of The
Lighthouse Board Of The Uni Ted States. A Body Organized In Accord Ance With An Act Of Congress, Approved August 31, 1852, And Having The Control And Manage Ment Of All Lights, Buoys, Beacons. Etc.. On The Coasts Of The United States, And The Custody Of All Archives. Drawings, Apparatus. ...
Lighthouse Illumination
Lighthouse Illumination, In The Entoptric Or Reflecting System All Of Those Rays Proceeding From The Focus Of A Parabolic Mirror Which Fall Upon Its Surface Are Reflected Parallel To The Axis So As To Form A Solid Beam Of Light. When A Series Of Such Reflectors Are Arranged Close To ...
Lightning Arresters
Lightning-arresters. Devices To Protect Electrical Apparatus From Damage By Lightning. In The Early Days Of Telegraphy And Telephony Many Accidents Were Caused By Light Ning Striking The Wires And Running Into The Offices, Often Injnring The Operator And Ilestroy Ing, Property. In Order To Obviate These Ties An Instrument Was ...
Lightning Me
Lightning (me. Lightnyng, Illumination. From Lighten. Light). A Brilliant Flash Of Light Between Clouds, Or Between A Cloud And The Earth. These Flashes Were Shown By Benjamin Franklin To Be Simply Enormous Electrical Discharges. The Length Of Such A Flash May He Several Miles. When The Flashes Are Between The ...
Lignite
Lignite (from Lat. Lignum, Wood). A Min Eral Substance, Which, Like Common Coal, Is Of Vegetable Origin, But Differs From It In Often Showing A Distant Fibrous Or Woody Structure. The External Form May Also Be Preserved, And Lignitized Tree-trunks Are Not Uncommon In Many Clay Formations Of Recent Geological ...
Ligny
Ligny, Iniyi". A Village In The Province Of N8111111% Licigh1111. 111110 Miles Northeast Of Charle Roi, Noted As The Scene Of A Battle Between The French Napoleon And A Prussian Army Commanded By Bliicher. _liter Driving The Prus Sian Vanguard From Charleroi On Juno 15, 1815, Napoleon Dispatched Ney With ...
Ligule
Ligule (lat. Ligula, Liuqula, Diminutive Of Lingua, °lat. 11;11g11(1, Tangoes Ultimately Eon Fleeted With Eng. Tongue). In General, An Out Growth Front The Surface Of A Leaf Or Leaf-like Organ. In Practice The Name Is Applied In Three Groups Of Plants. The Most Conspicuous Of Which Is The Grass Family. ...
Liguori
Liguori, R•-g,wo'r,% Alfonso .11a It I A Nt, Saint (1696-1787). A Roman Catholic Ecclesias Tic And Theologian, Founder Of The Lledempto•ist (q.v.) Order. Ile Was Born Of A Noble Family At 31arianella, Near Naples. And At First Studied Law, Taking His Doctor's Degree At The Age Of Six Teen, And ...
Liiilyvicik
Liiilyvicik, Alit. In Dickens's Nicho/as Siekleby, The Uncle Of Ali's. Kenwigs. Ile Is A Pompous Collector Of Ile Marries An Actress, Who First Henpecks Him And After Wards Leaves Him. Lily (.18. Lilige, From Lat. /ilium, Front Xciptov, /cirion, Lily), ',ilium. A Large Genus Of Bulbous Plants Of The Natural ...
Lilburne
Lil'burne, Jolts ( I014-57). An English Agitator And Pamphleteer. Lie Was Born At Green Nv Ich, And Was Educated At Newcastle And Auckland. Lie Was Apprenticed To The Wholesale Cloth Trade, But, Imbibing Opinions In Opposition To The English Church, At The Age Of Eighteen He Went To Holland To ...
Liliaceze
Lil'ia'ceze (neo-lat. Nom. Pl., From Let. From Gk. ),eiptov, Leirion, Lily; Connected With Xclp61, 1einos, Pale, Lith. Teitus. Thin, Skt. Ti, 'tura Lily Vamily. A Natural Or Der Of Monocotyledonous, Mostly Herbaceous, Bul Bous, Tuberous, Or Sometimes Fibrous Rooted Plailts And Occasionally Shrubs Or Trees, Which Last Are Mostly Tropical. ...
Lima
Lima. The Capital Of Peru. It Is Situated On The 1:111me, Sev(.11 Miles Frmil Where It Flows Into The Pacific Geean. And From The Port Of Callao (q.v.), In Latitude 12' 2' S., Longitude 77' 7' W. (map: Peru, B 6). To Its Prox Imity To The Andes, The Climate ...
Lime Tree Linden Or Ling
Lime-tree. Linden. Or Ling ( R 11•0111 Hind, Linde, Heel. Lied, 011c, R. I 7 Linden: Probably Connected With (:i:. Silver Fir). A Name Given To Trees ' The 'min, Natural Order Till:it-ea% Mitiv,- Of Fur Pe. The North Of Asia. And North .\meri• Cies, Which Number About A (loien. ...
Limen
Li'men (lat., Threshold). A Metaphorical Expression Introduced Into Psychology By Llerbart. The Ideal Boundary Or Limit, Which Ideas Or Representations May He Said To Cross On Becom Ing Conscious. Was Termed By Him The Of Eon Scion Sae Ss! The Word Was Then Transferred By Fechner To Psychophysics, Where It ...
Limerick
Limerick. A City, Civic County, And Port, Capital Of County Limerick, Ireland, On The Shannon, 120 Miles West-south Vest Of Dublin (map: Ireland. C 4). It Occupies Both Sides Of The River, Together With King's Island. Is Divided Into The English Town, The Oldest Part Of The City Connected Ttith ...
Limicdlie
Limicdlie (neo-lat., From Lat. Limns, Mud Rolcre, To Inhabit). A Large Order Or Suborder Of Birds, Often Known As The 'plover-snipe' Group, Differing From Other Wading Birds Chiefly In Their Breeding Habits. They Lay Few Eggs, Usually Four, And The Young When Hatched Are At Once Able To Run About ...
Limitation Of Actions
Limitation Of Actions (lat. Limita Tio, A Bounding, From Limitare, To Hound, From Lat. Limes, Boundary; Connected With Limen, Threshold). In Law, The Limited Period Of Time Allowed To A Party In Which To Commence An Action After His Cause Of Action Has Accrued. Ow Ing To The Difficulty Of ...
Limited Liability
Limited Liability. At Co111111011 Law, This Could Be Secured Only By A Special Contract ; That Is, By One To Which Both Parties Expressly Assented. If An Insurance Or Banking Partnership Wished To Limit Its Liabilities To Its Assets, And Save Its Members From Personal Responsibility For Its Debts, It ...
Limits
Limits, Of 1vhen The Difference Be Tween A Variable And A Constant Quantity May Become And Remain Less In Absolute Value Than Any Assignable Quantity, However Small, The Con Stant Is Called The Limit Of The Variable, E.g. The Sum Of Two. Three, Four, . . . N Terms Of ...
Limoges
Limoges, Winezhe The Capital Of The De Partment Of Haute-vieime, France, And The Ancient Capital Of Limousin (q.v.), Situated On The Right Bank Of The Vienne, 215 Miles South Southwest Of Paris (nap: France, H 6). It Is A Very Old Town, With Narrow, Crooked Streets In The Older Quarters, ...
Limonite
Limonite (from Gk. Xabo Marshy. Meadow), Or Flrown Hematite. The Hydrated Sesquioxide Of Iron (2fe,o,31-1,0), Con Taining 59.89 Per Cent. Of Metal. When Pure Or Nearly So, It Occurs In Compact Masses With A Silky Or Submetallie Lustre, Brown Or Brownish Yellow, In Color, And A Hardness Of 5-5.5 On ...
Limpet
Limpet (probably From As. Lempedu. Variant Of Lanlnrcde, Lamprey, From \l L. Lumpredu, Lam Prey, From Lat. Lombere, To Lick + Pout. Rock; Hardly Connected With Lat. Lepas, Gk. Xercis, Limpet, From Neras. Bare Rock. From Xereiv, Le Prin, To Strip, To Peel). A Gastropod Mollusk Of The Prosobranehiate Patclli( ...
Lin Tseh Sty
Lin Tseh-sty, Lin' Ts3' Sou' (1785-1850). A Chinese High Official Who Attained International Notoriety As 'commissioner Lin.' He Was Born In The Province Of Fukien, And Until He Was Seven Teen Years Old Assisted His Father As A Maker Of Artificial Flowers. Aided By A Wealthy Friend.•hose Daughter He Married, ...
Linacre
Linacre, Lin'a-ker, Or Lynaker, Thomas ( ?1-160-152-1). An English Humanist, Physician, And Divine, Horn At Canterbury. He Studied At Oxford, And Became Fellow Of All Souls' College In 1484. Shortly Afterwards He Went To Italy And Devoted Himself To The Study Of Latin, Greek. Natural Philosophy, And Medi Cine Under ...
Lincoln
Lincoln', Lin'kon. The Capital Of Lincoln Shire, England, A Civic County, Parliamentary And Municipal Borough. And Episcopal See, On The Witham, 130 Miles Northwest Of London (map: England, F 3). It Is A Junction Of Six Railroads And Has Extensive Canal Communications. Built On The Slope Of A Hill, Which ...
Lincoln
Lincoln, Almailam (1809-115). The Six Teenth President Of The [tithed States, Born In Itardin County, Ky., February 12, 1s09. His Ancestry Has Been With Some Difficulty Traced Hack To Samuel Lincoln, Of Norwich, England, Who Emigrated To America And Settled In Hing Ham. Alass.. In 1638. Some Of His Descendants, ...
Lincoln_2
Lincoln. The Second City Of Nebraska, State Capital And The County-seat Of Lancaster County, 55 Miles Southwest Of Hnaha ; On The Burlington Route. The Chicago, Rock Island And Pacific, The Fremont. Elkhorn And Slissouri Val Ley, The Union Pacific. And The Missouri Paeitie Railroads (map: Nebraska, Ii 3). The ...
Lindau
Lindau, T'l 1839-1. A Gen-an Atist. Novelist. And Essayist. Born Al Lie Studied At Halle And Leipzig. He Visited Paris. Where He Became Deeply Ally, Ted By The French Literary Spirit. And. Returning To Germany In 18113. Edited The Itulof For A Year. Went Then To Berlin, All] Ill I ...
Line
Line. A Term Used In The Fine Arts, By Ex Tension Of Its Original Meaning. As With Drawing. The Use Of Line In Representation Of Visual Nhjects In General Is Discussed Under Drawing And Perspective; This Article Will Con Fine Itself To Its Use In Painting. Line Is Of Equal ...
Line Engraving
Line-engraving. That Which Is Done With The Burin, The Only Tool In C0111131011 Use. The Term "line-engraving' Is Almost Wholly Limited To Such Engraving As Is Intended For Printing Off Upon Paper. The Burin Is A Slender Steel Bar, Square, Or More Rarely Triangular In Section, With This Peculiarity, That ...
Linen As
Linen (as. Linen, From Lin, Flax, From Lat. //now, Flax). The Term Linen Is N.ua Lly Applied To Fabrics Woven From The Fibre Of Flax (q.v.), Although Materials Made From Hemp Or Even Jute Are Sometimes Called By This Name. Linen Is One Of The Oldest Of All Textile Manufactures, ...
Lingard
Lingard, Jou ( 1771-1851). A Roman Catholic Historian Of England. Ile Was Born Of Humble Parentage At Winchester, Febru Ary 5. 1771, And, Being Destined For The Priest Hood, Was Sent To The English College Of Douay, In France, Where He Remained Until That College, In Common With Most Of ...
Linnet As
Linnet (as. /mete, Of., Fr. Final, Linnet, From Lat. Hawn, Flax; So Called From Their Feed Ing On Flaxseed). A Finch Of The Genus Linaria, Or Some Near Relative. The Size Is Small. The Tail Forked, And The Colors Brown Mixed With White, And More Or Less Flushed With Erimson, ...
Linoleum
Linoleum (neo-lat., From Lat. Haut, Flax Olcum, Oil). A Peculiar Preparation Of Linseed Oil In Which The Latter Is So Treated That It Be Comes Solid. This Was First Accomplished By Using Sulphur, But It Was Subsequently Ascer Tained That The Same Effect Could Be Secured By Niere Oxidization. Oil ...
Lion As
Lion (as. Leo. Of. Lion, Lent. Fr. Lion, Ft. Leone, Bore, From Lat. Leo, From Gk. Law, 'con, Lion). The Most Famous Of The Great Eats (l'elis Leo), And Distinguished From All Others By Its Mane And The Hairy Tuft At The End Of The Tail. It Inhabits Africa And ...
Lipan
Lipan, A Roving And Predatoryathapascan Tribe Formerly Ranging Chiefly In Southeastern Texas, Between The Nueces And The Rio Grande. As Well As In The Adjacent Northern States Of Mexico. They Lived Entirely By Hunting, Without Any Fixed Habitation Or Territorial Claim, In Consequence Of Which The Estimates Of Their Numbers ...
Lippe
Lippe, Lip'pc (sometimes Called Lippe Detmold, Det'zmilt ) A Principality And Con Stituent State Of The German Empire, Bounded By The Prussian Provinces Of Westphalia And Han Over And An Enclave Of The Principality Of Wal Deck (slap: Germany, C 2). It Occupies, To Gether With Its Three Small Exclaves ...
Lippi
Lippi, Lip'pe, Fitipeo. The Name Of Two Prominent Florentine Painters Of The Early Re Naissance.—fra Filippo (c.1406-69), The Father, Was The Son Of A Butcher Of Florence. At The Death Of His Parents, When Only Eight Years Old, He Was Placed In The Carmelite Convent At Flor Ence, And In ...