Asaphus
As'aphus (gk. A, A Priv. Aaddic, Saphos, Clear, Distinct). An Ordovician Genus Of Smooth Trilobites, Often Of Large Size, Among The Mem Bers Of Which There Is Manifested A Tendency To Lose That Longitudinal Lobation Which Is So Pe Culiarly Characteristic Of The Trilobites As A Group. The Large Head-shield ...
Asbestos
Asbestos (gk. Inextinguishable, Incombustible, From 4, A Negat. Sbcnnynai, To Extinguish). A Fibrous Mineral, Used Chiefly For Protection Against Heat, Its Structure Permitting It To Be Matted Or Woven. The Asbestos Of Commerce Belongs To Two Mineral Species—viz., True Asbestos And Chrysolite. The Former Is A Variety Of Amphibole (q.v.), ...
Ascaris
As'caris (gk. Daxanic, As•a•is, A Worm In The Intestines). A Genus Of Intestinal Nematode Worms, Which Are Of Comparatively Large Size. The Body Is Thick, And The Mouth Is Usually Sur Rounded With Three Lips Or Cephalic Valves, One In A Dorsal Position And The Other Two In The Median ...
Aschaffenburg
Aschaffenburg, Fi-shii'fcn-burk. The Capital Of The Bavarian District Of Lower Fran Conia, On The Right Bank Of The Slain, At Its Junction With The Aschaff (latitude 50° L' N., Longitude 9° 7' E.), About 2:3 Miles East-south East Of Frankfort (map: Germany. C 4). It Is Built Upon An Eminence, ...
Ascidian
Ascid'ian (gk. Doriotor, Asloidion, Dim. Of Rim*, Uskos, A Skinbag, A Bladder), Or Tunicate (lat. Tanicalus, Clothed With A. Tunic). One Of The Small Marine Animals, Constituting The Class Uro•ho•da Of The Phylum Chordata, And Popl In Rly Known As Sea-scpairts. They Are Of T Wo 1:111(1=3 : ( ) ...
Asconycetes
As'conyce'tes (gk. Fiakey, Askos, Skin Hag Nom. Pl. Pl./on-cc, Ntykeics, Mushrooms, Fungi). One Of The Largest Groups Of Fungi, Only Rivaled In The Number Of Species By The Basidio Mycetes (mushrooms And Their Allies). Its Members Are Readily Distinguished By The Cha• Acteristic Fructification Called The `ascoearp! The Essential Elements ...
Asgard
Asgard, Ils'glird (old Norse Fiss, God + Gardhr, Barth, Inclosure, Home). The Home Ot The Norse Gods, Or The Scandinavian Olympus. It Was Said To Stand In The Middle And Highest Part Of Ida's Plain, Which Is The Centre Of The Universe. There The ,esir (gods) Built A Hall, Glads-heim ...
Asgill
Asgill, Fls'gil, Joun (1659-1733). An Ec Centric English Writer. Ile Was Born At Hanley Castle, Worcestershire, And Studied For The Liar. At Intervals The Whole Of His Checkered Life He Praeticed His Profession In Some Form Or Other: But He Was Continually Getting Into Finan Cial And Other Difficulties. Fortunately ...
Ash As
Ash (as. Erse, 1n1hg. Aseh, (;cr. Esche), Fraxinus. A Genus Of Trees Belonging To The Natural Order Oleacem. The Leaves Are Decidu Ous, And Are Pinnate, With A Terminal Leaflet. There Are About 50 Species, Mostly Natives Of Europe, Eastern Asia, And Of North America. The Common Ash (praxinus Excelsior) ...
Ashanti
Ashanti, Ii-shiin'te, Or Ashantee. A Negro Kingdom In Western Africa. Separated From The Gulf Of Guinea By The British Gold-coast Colony (q.v.), Of Which It Has Practically Been A Part Since 1396 (map: Africa. D 4). Its Boundaries Are Only Imperfectly Defined, And Its Area Is Estimated At About 10.000 ...
Asher
Ash'er (heb., Blessed). The Name Given By Biblical Tradition (gen. Xxxv. 26) To The Eighth Son Of Jacob, Being The Second Born To Him By His Concubine Zilpah, The Handmaid Of Leah. Asher Is Thus Merely The Customary Eponymous Heir Of The Tribe Of Asher, Which Formed Part Of The ...
Asheville
Asheville, Ash'vil. A City And County Seat Of Buncombe County, N. C., 262 Miles By Rail Northeast Of Atlanta, Ga.; At The Junction Of The Swannanoa And The French Broad Rivers, And On The Southern Railway (map: North Carolina, B 4). It Is Finely Situated, At An Elevation Of 2300 ...
Ashtoreth Astarte
Astarte, Ash'toreth. A Goddess Ap Pearing Frequently In The Old Testament 1 I. Kings Xi. 5-33; 11. Kings Xxiii. 13), Where She Is Called The Goddess Of The Sidonians. The Form Of Her Name In Thellassoretie Text Of The Old Testament Appears To He Due To Intentional Perversion, Her Real ...
Asia
Asia, A'shl-a. The Largest Division Of Land On The Globe. And The East Portion Of The Eur Asian Continent, Of Which It Embraces More Than Four-fifths. Lts Area, Exclusive Of Islands, Is About 16,000.000 Square Miles; Or, Including Islands, Is About 17.000.000 Square Miles, Equal To About One Third Of ...
Asiarch
Asiarch, ( Asiarches, From 'asia, Asia ± Arehein, To Govern). The Title Of An Officer Of High Rank In The Roman Province Of Asia, Similar To Officers In Other Provinces Called After Their Respective Provincial Names. Galatareh, Lykiar•h, Pamphyliarch. The Appointment. Functions, And Tenure Of Office Be Longing To This ...
Asoka
Asoka, It-s616, Written Also Acoka, Ashoka. A Renowned King Of Early India, Famous As The Patron Of Buddhism, To Which He Stands In A Similar Relation To That Of Constantine To Christianity. His Full Name Was Asoka Vardhana. Ile Was The Son Of Sfi•a Amitragnata, Of The Alaurya Line, And ...
Asparagus
Asparagus (gk, Ciar Dpayos, Asparagus, Or Acrocipay,c, Uspharagos). A Genus Of Plants Of The Natural Order Liliaccw. The Species Of This Genus Are Herbaceous Or Shrubby Plants, Na Tives Chiefly Of The South Of Europe And Of Africa. The Most Widely Diffused Species Is The Common Asparagus (asparagus Officinalis), A ...
Aspasia
Aspasia, (gk. (c.440 P.c.). A Celebrated Woman Of Ancient Greece, Noted For Her Genius, Beauty, And Political Influ Ence: Daughter Of Axiochus, And Born At .aliletus. The Circumstances Of Her Removal To Athens Are Unknown. But The Beginning Of Her Con Nection With Pericles Dates From About B.c. 460. Pericles ...
Asphalt Mining
Asphalt Mining, In The Ease Of Rock Asphalt, Is Usually A Simple Process, In Which Blasting Is Employed To Loosen The Rock. In The Seyssel Mines, In France, The Bituminous Limestone Is Blasted From Between Layers Of Ordinary White Limestone, And The Work Done For The Most Part Underground. In ...
Asphyxia
Asphyxia (gk. Izacsuzfia, A Stopping Of The Pulse, From A, A Negat. A01.,;=tc, Sphyxis, Pulse). A Condition Brought About In Oxygen-breathing Animals When Any Obstacle Prevents The En Trance Of Air Into The Pulmonary Vesicles, And Unconsciousness Or Death Occurs. Aquatic Ani Mals May Be Asphyxiated Either By Depriv Ing ...
Aspii Alt Refining And
Aspii Alt Refining And Working Varies With Both The Natural Product And The Uses To Which It Is To Be Put. Generally Speaking, The Object Of The Process Is To Remove Water And Volatile And Other Foreign Matter From The Crude Ma Terial; But For Some Purposes It Is Highly ...
Ass A S
Ass (a. S. Asset, Goth. Asilus, Bus. Osclii, Lat. Asinus, Probably Of Eastern Origin: Cf. Heb. Lithon, She - Ass) Or Doxxr:y, When Domesti Cated. A Member Of The Family Equidx, And Genus Equus, Of Horses. Zebras, Etc. Two Species Are Recognized By Blanford And Other Specialists —one Asiatic And ...
Assai
Assai, As-si' (from The Native Brazilian Name Of The Palm-t•ee). A Beverage Used At Path And Other Places On The Amazon. It Is Prepared From The Fruit Of Certain Species Of Palm Nearly Allied To The Cabbage Palm Of The West Indies. (see Areca ; And Cabbage Palm. ) The ...
Assam
Assam'. A Chief Eommissionship In The North-eastern Part Of British India, Bordering On China, Burma, Slanipur, And Bengal (map: Burma, A 1 ). Area, 52,078 Square Miles. The In Terior Belongs Chiefly To The Valley Of The Brahma Putra, While The Territory On Both Sides Of The River Is Mostly ...
Assassination
Assas'sina'tion. The Act Of Taking The Life Of Any One By Surprise Or Treacherous Vio Lence, Either By A Hired Emissary, As In The Case Of Political Plots, Or By A Fanatic Who Hopes To Further His Ideas Through The Death Of His Vic Tim, As In The Case Of ...
Assassins
Assassins (fr. Assassin, Of. Plur. Has Sasis. Front Ar. Haskashin, Plur. Of Hashash, Hash Ish-eater). A Secret Order Of Islam, Partly Re Ligious And Partly Seeular In Character, And An Offshoot Of The Sect Of Ismaili, Which Was In Turn A Branch Of The Great Shiite Faction. The Mem Bers ...
Assault And Battery
Assault And Battery (fr. Batterie, From Battre, To Beat, Batter). Au Infringement Of The Common-law Right To Personal Safety And Freedom. The Words 'assault' And 'battery' Are Commonly Used Together. For The Reason That The Two Offenses Which They Indicate Are Usually Committed Together. But The Offenses Are Sepa Rate ...
Assaying Gold And Silver
Assaying Gold And Silver Ores. Gold And Silver Are Generally Associated Together In Ores, And Such Ores Are Universally Determined By Fire Assay. The Fire-assay Consists Essentially In The Collection Of The Gold And Silver In A Button Of Metallic Lead, Either By Scorification Or By Fu Sion. The Lead ...
Assessors
Assess'ors (lat. Ossessor, One Who Sits Beside, From Ad, To -)- Sederc, To Sit). In Homan Law, Persons Who Were Called In By Those Admin Istering Public Justice To Sit With Them, And Give Legal Advice And Assistance. The Practice Has Continued In Those European Countries In Which The Civil ...
Assets
As'sets (lat. Ad Satis, Up To What Is Enough). One Of Those Terms In The Law Of Eng Land Which In Itself Bears Evidence Of A Norman Origin. It Is Derived From The French Word Asses, Or More Exactly, In Norman-french, Assetz, `enough,' Or 'sufficient,' Signifying The Property Of A ...
Assignats
Assignats, A'sfynya' Or As'ig-nfits (fr. As Signat, From Lat. Pp. Assignatus, Assigned, From Ad, To + Signare, To Sign). Paper Money Issued During The French Revolution, Which Derived Its Name From The Public Domain Assigned For Its Ultimate Redemption. One Of The Earliest Acts Of The Revolutionary Authorities Was The ...
Assignment
Assignment (from Lat. Ad, To + Signare, To Sign). In Law, A Transfer Or Making Over (usually In Writing) To Another, Of Any Property, Real Or Personal, Or Of Any Right Therein. The Term Is Usually, Although Not With Strict Accu Racy, Applied To A Transfer In Writing, As Dis ...
Assimilation
Assim'ila'tion (lat. Assimilare, Assima Lare, To Make Like, From Ad, To F Sin Ills, Like, Similar) In Plants. The Process By Which Foods Are Transformed Into Living Substance. It Is The Final Step In Nutrition (q.v., Where Its Relation To Other Processes Is Shown). The Term Has Long Been Applied ...
Assimo Taparelli Azeglio
Azeglio, Assimo Taparelli, 1%larchese D' (1798-1866). An Dalian States Man, Author, And Artist, The Descendant Of An Ancient And Noble Piedmontese Family. Lle Was Born At Turin. October 4, 1798. After A Brief Service In A Piedmontese Cavalry Regiment, Which Ill-health Forced Him To Abandon, D'azeglio Went To Rome And ...
Assiniboia
Assiniboia, As-sin't-boi'a (ojibwa, Asinni, Stone + /nu', The Dakota). A District In Canada, Formed In 1882 Out Of The Northwest Territories, Containing 90,340 Square Miles (map: North West Territories, G 4). It Is Bounded On The North By Saskatchewan, On The East By Manitoba, On Flue Smith By The United ...
Assize Of Jerusalem
Assize Of J'eru'salem. The Name Given To A Body Of Laws In The Latin Kingdoms Of Jerusalem And Cyprus, Formerly Supposed To Have Been Compiled By Godfrey De Bouillon (gib Bon), But Dating In Reality From A Later Period. The Assize Consisted Of Two Parts, The Assize Of The High ...
Association Of Ideas
Association Of Ideas. The Phrase `association Of Ideas' Seems To Have Been First Used By The English Philosopher, John Locke, Although The Facts To Which It Gives Expression Were Often Discussed Long Before Loeke's Time. Even As Early As The Time Of Aristotle, We Find Four Classes Of Association Described; ...
Assumpsit
Assump'sit (lat. 3d Pers. Sing. Perf. Assumere, To Undertake). The Technical Name Of A Form Of Action At Common Law. It Was First Used As A Form Of Action On The Case (see After The Statute Of Westminster Il (1285), In Which The Plaintiff Pleaded That The Defendant Undertook To ...
Assyria
Assyr'ia (gk. 'aaavpia, In O. Per In Scriptions Apra, E. Syr. Atkor, W. Syr. Ar. Th Fir, Assyr. Asshur. Later Abbreviated To Syria). An Ancient Country In Mesopotamia. It Took Its Name From The City Of Ashur (asshur, Assur), Which Was The Earliest Capital Of The Dis Trict. The Country ...
Assyrian Art
Assyr'ian Art. The Historic Inscriptions Show That The Earliest Rulers Of Assyria In The Seventeenth Century 13.c. Built Monumentsanden Riehed Them With Images, With Colored Decorations, And With Hangings. None Of These Early Works Has Yet Been Found, Hut It Is Probable That They Resembled The Art Of Babylonia Even ...
Astrakhan
Astrakhan (ranted After The Khan Aster). The Capital Of The Government Of The Same Name In Russia, Situated 011' An Island Of The Volga, 60 Miles Front The Caspian Sea And 933 Miles Southeast Of :moscow (slap: Russia, G 5). It Is The Seat Of A Greek Archbishop And An ...
Astro Photography
As'tro-photog'raphy (gk. 5crrpop, As Iron, Star + Photography). In No Department Of Astronomy Has Development In Recent Years Been So Marked As In The Application Of Photo Graphic Processes Of Observation. If Photog Raphy Could Accomplish Nothing More Than What It Has Done And Is Doing For Descriptive Astronomy Alone. ...
Astrocaryuivi
As'trocar'yuivi (gk. Ciarpor, Astron, Star Roipeoe, Karyon, Mit; Referring To The Arrange Ment Of The Fruits). A Genus Of Palms, Of Which About Thirty Species Are Known, Natives Of Tropi Cal America, Remarkable For The Abundance Of Acute And Formidable Spines, In Some Cases A Foot Long, With Which Almost ...
Astrology
Astrology (gk. Ciarpov, Astron, Star + Logos, Science). The Term Meant Orig Inally Much The Same As Astronomy, 'the Knowl Edge Of The Stars,' But Was At Length Restricted To The Science Of Predicting Future Events, Especially The Fortunes Of Men. From The Le-fsitions Of The Heavenly Bodies. This Was ...
Astronomy
Astronomy (gk. Aarpoy, Nstron, Star Voyoc, Nomos, Law). The Oldest Of The Sciences. The Early History Of Astronomy Is Perhaps More Important Than That Of Any Other Science; In Deed, It May Be Said That A Study Of The State Of Scientific Culture Among The Early Peoples Amounts To Little ...
Asturias
Asturias, (from Basque Asta, Rock + Era, River; Literally 'the Country Of The Dwellers By The Rocky River'). A Former Divi Sion Of Spain, Now Included In The Province Of Oviedo, Bounded On The North By The Bay Of Biscay, East By Santander, South By Leon, And West By Galicia. ...
Asylum
Asy'lum (lat., Gk. Aat'2or, Asylon, Right Of Sanctuary, Refuge, A Place Safe From Violence, From A, A Prix. Syle, Right Of Seizure). A Place Of Refuge. In Ancient Times, Sacred Places, Especially The Temples And Altars Of The Gods, Were Appointed As Asylums To Which Crim Inals As Well As ...
Atahualpa
Atahualpa, ( ? -1533). Inca Of Peru. He Was The Favorite Son Of Huayna Capac, Who Upon His Death-bed Made Atahualpa Icing Of Quito, While Huascar. His Eldest Son, Re Ceived Peru (1525). In The Spring Of 1530, Ata Hualpa. Incensed At Huascar's Demand For Hom Age, Declared War Against ...
Atchison
Atch'ison. A City And County - Scat Of Atchison County, Kan., 49 Miles Northwest Of Kansas City, Mo.; On The Missouri River, And On The Missouri Pacific, The Chicago, Rock Island And Pacific, The Atchison, Topeka And Santa Fe, The Chicago. Burlington And Quincy, And Several Other Railroads (slap: Kansas, ...
Athabasca
Athabasca, Iitlfa-biteka. (n. Amer. In Dian, Place Of Hay And Reeds). A District In Canada, Formed In 1882 Out Of The Northwest Territories, And Enlarged In 1895, So As To Con Tain 251,300 Square Miles, Including 11,800 Square Miles Of Water Area (map: Canada, H 5). The District Lies Between ...
Athanaric 381
Athan'aric 381). A King Of The Western Goths (visigoths), Whose Settlements Lay On The North Bank Of The Lower Danube. Flaying Taken Advantage Of The Weakness Of The Roman Empire When The Imperial Armies Were Engaged In Suppressing The Rebellion Of Pro Copius, War Was Declared Against Him By The ...
Athanasian
Athanasian (iith'a-na'zhan ) Creed, Tiie. Often Called The Quicunque, From Its First Latin Word. The Longest Of The Three So-called Ecumenical Creeds, And The Latest In Time Of Composition. (see Creeds And Confessions And Nicene Creed.) It Was Long Supposed That The Athanasian Creed Was The Work Of The Saint ...
Athens
Ath'ens (gk. 'abiivat, Athenoi, Usually De Rived From The Name Of The Goddess Athene). The Capital Of The Kingdom Of Greece And Of The Nome Of Attica ; Situated In Latitude 37° 59' N., And Longitude 23° 41' E.. On The Southwest Coast Of Attica, Less Than :3 Miles From ...
Athletics
Athletics (from Gk, Ei0x7n-hs, Athl(ws, Contestant). The Term Has Of Late Been Definitely Applied To Recognized Contests Of Physical Skill End Endurance, For Pastime And For The Develop Ment Of Bodily Strength. These Are Commonly Divided Into Two Classes—track And Field Games, And Gymnastic Performances. The Former Include The Running ...
Athor
Athor, Ii!thor, Athyr, Wth1r, Or Ha Thor, Hii!thor (egyptian Hat-hoc). An Egyp Tian Goddess. The Original Seat Of Her Cult Seems To Have Been Denderah In Upper Egypt. Where The Ruins Of Her Famous Temple Are Still To Be Seen, But At A Very Early Period Her Worship Spread Over ...
Atlanta
Atlan'ta. The Capital Of Georgia, And County Seat Of Fulton County, 171 Miles West By North Of Augusta And 294 Miles Northwest Of Savannah (slap: Georgia, B 2). It Is Popu Larly Known As The "gate City," And Is The Larg Est City In The State, The Commercial Metropolis Of ...
Atlantic City
Atlantic City. A Seaside• Resort, On A Long, Narrow, Sandy Island, Known As Absecon Beach, In Atlantic County, New Jersey, 60 Miles Southeast Of Philadelphia And 137 Miles South By West Of New York; On Divisions Of The Penn Sylvania And The Reading Railroads (map: New Jersey, D 5). The ...
Atlantic Ocean
Atlantic Ocean. An Ocean So Named From Atlas (q.v.), Probably Because It Was The Sea Beyond Mount Atlas. In Northwestern Africa. It Lies To The West Of The Great Land Masses Of The Old World And To The East Of Those Of The New World, And Extends From The Arctic ...
Atlas
Atlas. A Mountain System Of Northern Africa, Extending In A Southwest And Northeast Direction From The Western End Of Morocco To The Eastern Coast Of Tunis. In The Main Parallel With The Coast Of The Atlantic And The Medi Terranean (map: Africa, D 1). It Is Generally Divided Into Two ...
Atmosphere
Atmosphere (gk. Etr,a6s, A-tmos, Vapor + Aq5aipa, Sphaira, Sphere, Globe). The Name Ap Plied To The Mixture Of Gases And Vapors Sur Rounding Any Climate Or Sun, But Especially The Envelope Of Our Globe. Spectrum Analysis Tells Us Much About The Constituent Gases And Vapors, And Even The Relative Motion ...
Atmospheric Electricity
At'mospher'ic E'lectric'ity. Ob Servation Shows That The Lower Atmosphere, With Its Clouds And Rain, Or Snow And Dust, Is Gener Ally In An Electrified State. In November, 1749, Benjamin Franklin Argued That Lightning Is But An Immense Electric Flash, Similar To The Sparks Obtained From Electrical Machines. On May 10, ...
Atmospheric Influence
Atmospheric Influence. Air Con Sists Normally Of Oxygen, Nitrogen, Water-vapor, And Carbonic Acid; But Owing To The Continual De Composition Of Organic Bodies That Is Taking Place In Nature, Its Constituents Usually Include Many Other Gases, As Hydrogen Disulphide, Sulphur Tri Oxide, Etc., Which May Act Chemically On Various Bodies, ...
Atomic Weights
Atomic Weights. If One Should Weigh Out A Number Of Volatile Oxygen Compounds In Such Quantities That The Volumes Occupied By Them (under Some Given Pressure And Tempera Ture) Should Be Equal To One Another As Well As To The Volume Occupied By 2 Parts By Weight Of Hydrogen Gas, ...
Atomic Weights Referred Either
Atomic Weights Referred Either To Hydro Gen Or To Oxygen. Being Purely Relative Quan Tities, The Atomic Weights Of The Elements Assume Definite Values Only If Referred To Some Fixed Num Ber Chosen To Represent One Of Them. Different Sets Of Atomic Weights May Therefore Be Obtained By Choosing Different ...
Atonement
Atonement (from Atone, Literally To Be At One). Sin Produces Estrangement From God And Renders Man Liable To The Penalty Of The Law Of God. The Work Of Salvation From This Double Result Is Wrought By Jesus Christ, Who Is Sent By God As The Saviour Of The World. The ...
Atreus
Atreus, Etr7ris (gk. 'arpeeis). In Greek Legend, Son Of Pelops And Hippodamia, Grand Son Of Tantalus, And Brother Of Thyestes. In The Iliad There Is No Trace Of The Terrible Feud Between The Brothers. This Legend Develops Later, Perhaps Under The Influence Of Dorian Hostility To The Acluean Rulers Of ...
Atrium
Atrium (lat., A Hall; Literally, 'dark Room,' From Ater, Black, Dark, Referring To The Smoke From The Stove Or Hearthstone. See Below). In Roman Architecture, The One Large Apartment Of The Primitive Italic And Roman House; The General Room Which Served For Kitchen, Dining-room, Reception And Sleeping Room. In It ...
Attachment
Attachment (fr. Attachement, From A Lat. Ad, To Bret. Tech, Engl. Tack, A Nail). The Legal Process Under Which A Sheriff Or Like Officer Takes A Person Or Property Into Custody; Or The Proceeding Under The Process. An Attach Ment Against The Person Was Used Most Fre Quently, Either To ...
Attack
Attack' (fr. Attaque, The Same In Deriva Tion As Attachment ) . A Military Operation Against An Enemy. It May Apply To Any Action Which Brings One Body Of Troops In Battle In Con Tact. With Another, But Is More Generally Applied To A Distinct Military Operation By Which An ...
Attention
Atten'tion (lat. Ad, To + Tendcre, To Stretch, Reach Out, To Direct One's Self, Strive). The Problem Of Attention Is Distinctively A Prob Lem Of Modern Psychology. It Is, Of Course. Pos Sible, Now That The Study Of Attention Has Been Systematically Undertaken, And Its Part-problems Discriminated, To Find The ...
Attica
At'tica (gk. 'arruch, At Like, Earlier, 'aktlic7t, Aktike, From Akti, Akte, Headland, Promontory, Coastland). The Eastern Extremity Of The Mainland Of Greece. It Forms A Triangu Lar Peninsula Extending To The Southeast Into The -egean Sea, Washed On The Southwest By The Saronic Gulf, And On The Northeast By The ...
Attila
Attila, Fit'ti-ia (ger. Et, Fl; Hung. Ethele, Conjectured To Have Been Originally A Title Of Honor). A King Of The Huns, The Son Of Munzuk, A Hun Of The Royal Blood. In A.d. 434 He Suc Ceeded His Uncle, Lions, As Chief Of Countless Hordes Scattered Over The North Of ...
Attorney
Attorney, Iit-tfieni (of. Atonic; Low Lat. Attornatus, Turned To). A Person To Whom Authority Has Been Turned Over Or Transferred To Act For Another. If The Authority Is Con Ferred By A Letter Or Power Of Attorney, Be Is Called An Attorney In Fact, Or An Agent (q.v.). If He ...
Attornment
Attornment, Iit-thriement (for Deriva Tion, See Attorney). The Formal Recognition, By A Tenant, Of The Grantee Of The Freehold As His Landlord. This Doctrine, Which Has Played An Important Role In The Modern Law Of Landlord And Tenant, Had Its Almost Forgotten Origin In The Feudal System Of Land Tenure, ...
Atwoods Machine
Atwood's Machine, Ma-shiin'. An In Strument For Illustrating The Relations Of Time, Space, And Velocity In The Motion Of A Body Fall Ing Under The Action Of Gravity, Invented By George Atwood (q.v.). It Is Known That A Body Falling Freely Passes Through 16 Feet In The First Second, 64 ...
Auber
Auber, O'brte, Daniel Francois Esprit (1782-1871). A Famous French Operatic Com Poser. He Was Horn At Caen, Normandy, And Died In Paris. His Father, An Amateur Painter And Violinist Of Some Note, Was A Dealer In Prints, And Sent Him To England To Learn The Trade. But His Love For ...
Aubigne
Aubigne, 6'1wdyfi', Theodore Agrippa D' Le.1550-10301. A French 'huguenot Soldier, Mili Tant Poet, Historian, And Statesman. Iic Was Born Near The Town Of Pons In Saintonge. As A Child He Was A Brilliant Classical Scholar. He Early Em Braced The Huguenot Cause, Was Captured, Con Demned To Death, Escaped, And ...
Auction
Auc'tion (lat. Nuctio, Increase, Public Sale By Increased Bids. From Ungere, Increase). A Public Sale Of Property To The Highest Bidder. Ordinarily, The Property Offered For Sale Is De Scribed, And The Conditions In Accordance With Which It Will Be Sold Are Announced, Before Bids Are Invited. Each Bid Is ...
Auditor
Auditor (lat., Hearer, Front Audire, To Hear). At Common Law, An Officer Appointed By The Court In The Action Of Account Or Account Render To Take And State The Items Of Debit And Credit Between The Parties To The Action, De Termine The Balance Due, And Report To The Court. ...
Audubon
Audubon, Edn•bon, Jon Jam Es (1780 1851). An American Naturalist. He Was Horn At Mandeville, In Louisiana, Then A Spanish Col Ony, On May 5, 1780. And Died January 27, 1851. This Date Of His Birth. However, Is Merely A Tra Dition; And Probably He Was Born Some Years Before ...
Auerbach
Auerbach. Ou'or-bac, Ilestrump (1812-82). A German Novelist, Born At Nordstetten. He Was The Founder Of The Contemporary German `tendency Novel,' In Which Fie I011 Is Used As A Means Of Influencing Public Opinion On Social, Political, Moral, And Religions Questions. Auer Bach Was Of Humble, Jewish Parentage. But Had A ...