A Rgum Ents For
A Rgum Ents For And Against Cremation. Within The Last Few Years The Conviction Has Rapidly Spread That A More Rapid And Sanitary Method Of Disposal Must Be Substituted For Burial, Especially In The Great Centres Of Population. To Find Enough Land For Burial Purposes Is Becoming A More And ...
Aai Erica
Aai Erica. Association Omga Nized Iu 1810, By Robert Vinley (q.v.), "to Promote A Plan For Colonizing (with Illeir Convent) The Free People Of Color Residing In Our Country, In Africa, Or Such Other Place As Congress May Deem Most Expedient." Branches Were Established Through Out The Country And An ...
Aciiromatopsia Color Blindness
Color-blindness, Aciiromatopsia, Or Daltonism. An Incurable Defect Of Vision, Owing To Which Some Persons Are Unable To Distinguish Certain Colors. The Name Daltonism Is After Dalton, The English Chemist, Who Suffered From The Defect. Acquired Color-blindness Is A Symp Tom Of Diseases Of The Optic Nerve And Retina. Congenital Color-blindness ...
Agriculture
Agriculture. With The Exception Of The River Valleys, Connecticut Soil Is Not Favorable To Agri Culture. The Surface Is Broken And Stony, And Generally Lacks Fertility. With The Development Of The Fertile And Easily Cultivated Plains Of The West, Connecticut, In Common With The Other New England States, Found Market ...
Agriculture
Agriculture. Owing To Its Climate And Soil, Cuba Is Exceptionally Well Adapted For Agriculture, But Long Years Of Political Oppression And Un Fa Vorahle Labor Conditions, Combined Somewhat With The Indisposition For Work Inherent In The Natives, Have Retarded The Agricultural Develop Ment Of The Island. Prior To The Late ...
Agriculture_2
-agriculture. Costa Rica Is Essentially An Agricultural Country. And Is Chiefly Dependent On The Cultivation Of Coffee. Notwithstanding The Sparse Population Of The Country- And The Lack Of Transportation Facilities, Agriculture Is In A Flourishing Condition, As Evidenced By The Constantly Increasing Exports Of Agricultural Products. This State Of Affairs ...
Aint Simon
:".aint-simon.) Of The French Communists, Charles Fourier (q.v.) Probably Liad The Greatest Influence. Ile Did Not Advocate Abolition Of Pri Vate Property. But Believed In Associations Of 2000 People Who Should Live In A 'phalanx,' Work And Consume In Common So Far As Pleased Them, Lint Who Were By No ...
Alexander 1701 70 Crude N
Crude N, Alexander (1701-70). An English Scholar. Maker Of A \veil-known Bible Concordanee. He Was Born At Aberdeen And Edu Eated At Alarischal College In That City. With A View To The Church, But Haying Exhibited Decided Symptoms Of Insanity, Lie Was For Some Time Idaced In Confinement. On His ...
Alien
Alien). Is A Recognized Officer Of A Foreign State, Under The Special Protection Of International Law; He May Raise The Flag And Place The Arms Of The United States Over His Gates And Doors: And His Official Papers And Archives Are Exempt From Seizure And Destruction. While These Duties Of ...
Alphonse 1840 97 Datjdet
Datjdet, Alphonse (1840-97). The Most Graceful Of Modern French Humorists. The Most Sympathetic Satirist And The Nnnsi Min Ing, If Not The Deftest, Story-teller Of His Genera Tion In France. Ile Was A Native Of Provence. And Inherited Its Warm Imagination. Lie Has Given Us One Of The (lassies Of ...
American Colleges
Colleges, American. The Offspring Of European Colleges, And Possessing At First The Same General Form Of Organization. American Colleges Have Gradually Undergone Changes Which Make Them Distinctive. Harvard (q.v.), The Oldest, Was Founded In 1636, Under The Influ Ence Of Men Who For The Most Part Had Received Their Education ...
American Constitutional Law
American Constitutional Law. In A State Which Has A Constitution Of The 'fixed' Or Statu Tory Type, Like The United States, Much Less Is Left To Convention And Understanding, And Much Less Depends Upon Custom And Expediency. The Area Of Law Under Such A Constitution Is, There Tore, Much Wider, ...
Ancient Cosmogonies
Ancient Cosmogonies. Scarcely Any People, Either Ancient Or Modern, Has Been Without Sonic Theory Concerning The Creation Of The World. Passing Over The Views Of Such Primitive Tribes As The Australians Or American Indians, The Cosmogonies Of Chief Interest In Connection With Our Own Views Are Those Of Babylonia, India, ...
Ancient Dances
Ancient Dances. In Egypt (lancing Reached A State Of Considerable Excellence, For Although Egyptian Dances Were Monotonous And 'unim Aginative, Like Those Of Most Oriental Peoples, The Use Of The Body And Of The Hands And Arms Was Carried To Great Perfection. Their Most Im Portant Dances—those In Honor Of ...
Ander Sergeyevicii Is13 0
Ander Sergeyevicii ( I S13-0). A Famous Rus Sian Composer, Founder, With Glinka, Of The Rus Sian National School Of Music. He Was The Son Of A Wealthy Nobleman In The Government Of Tu La. Speechless To His Sixth Year, He Early Exhibit Ed Fondness For Music, And Was Taught ...
Anglican And Protestant
Anglican And Protestant The Uni Versal Tendency Of The Reformers Was Naturally To Dissociate Themselves From The Older Church By Abandoning To A Greater Or Less Extent The Ceremonies And Vestments Used By It. The Lutherans And The Anglicans, However, Showed A More Conservative Spirit Than The Others. Luther Himself ...
Anthony 1676 1729 Collins
Col'lins, Anthony (1676-1729). An Eng Lish Author, A Noted Free-thinking Writer On Reli Pious Questions. Ile Was Born At Isleworth Or At Heston, Near Hounslow, In Middlesex, June 21, 1676. Lie Studied At Eton, And King's College, Cambridge, And In The Temple In London. In 1707 He Published His Essay ...
Antonio Allecri Da Correggio
Correggio, Antonio Allecri Da (c.1494 1534). An Italian Painter, So Called From His Birthplace, A Small Town Near Modena. We Are Less Informed About His Life Than About That Of Any Other Of The Chief Italian Painters. Accord Ing To The Traditional As Given By Vas Ari And The Local ...
Artificial Cotton
Cotton, Artificial. A Material Made In Germany From The Wood Of The Fir-tree, Which Is Reduced To Thin Shavings. These Are Washed, Then Steamed For Ten Hours, After Which They Are Treated With A Strong Solution Of Sodium Lye And Then Heated Under Great Pressure For Thirty-six Hours. The Wood ...
Baring
Baring. The Process Of Cooking Meat In The Dry Heat. Of An Oven Is Properly Termed Baking. The Oven Of A Stove Generally Receives Its Heat From The Fire-box, Although In Very Large Estab Lishments It Is Heated By Steam Under Pressure. No Matter How Great. The Surrounding Heat., A ...
Battle Cold Harbor
Cold Harbor, Battle Or. One Of The Most Sanguinary Battles Of The Civil War In America. Fought June 1 And 3, 1861, At. Cold Harbor. Va.. About 10 Miles Northeast Of Rich Mond, Between The Federal Army Of The Potomac, Numbering About 102,000, Under General Grant, And The Confederate Army ...
Bear Trap Dams Or Gates
Bear-trap Dams Or Gates. In Their Simplest Form, Consist Of Two Leaves Extending Across The Pass Or Opening To Be Closed, And So Hinged To The Sill Of The Dam On Their Outer Edge That They Form A Triangle When In Use And Lie Fiat On The Sill Of The ...
Bertrand 1772 1842 Clausel
Clausel, Bertrand ( 1772-1842). A French Marshal, Born At Mirepoix, In The De Partment Of Ariege. December 12. 1772. He En Tered The Army At An Early Age, And Commanded A Brigade In The Italian Campaign Of 1799. He •fig Made A General Of Division Of The Army Of The ...
Bibliography
Bibliography. A Chapter On Cremation Treat Ing The Subject From The Sanitary And Economic Standpoint Is Contained In Baker, Municipal En Gineering And Sanitation (new York, 1901). From The Coke Is Allowed To Mix In The Second Air-chquiber With The Air Heated By Passing Through The Side Air-passages. The Incinerating ...
Boiling
Boiling. The Use Of The Term 'boiling' In Con Nection With Cooking Meat In Water Is Rather Un Fortunate, For The Operation Thus Designated. If Properly Carried Out, Should Involve Hardly Any Boiling. The Coloring Matter Of The Blood Is Changed, The Fibre Softened. And The Connective Dissolved At A ...
Book Of Daniel
Daniel, Book Of. A Composition Of About The Year Me. 165, Written By A Jewish Patriot As An Exhortation And Encouragement To The Jews. Who At The Time Were Sorely Oppressed And Hin Dered In The Free Exercise Of Their Religion By Antiochus 1v., Surnamed Eitiplianc4. The Book, Comprising Twelve ...
Botanical Cytology
Botanical Cytology. As Yet Little Is Known Regarding The Structure Of Protoplasm In Plants. Hut The Which Have Been Made Favor The Assumption That Its Structure Is Iden Tical With That In Animals. Much More Attention Has Been Paid To The Nucleus. Even The Small Nuclei Of Many Of The ...
Botanical And Commercial Classifications
Botanical And Commercial Classifications. The Cotton Of Commerce Is The Product Of A Few Species Of Gossypium, A Genus Of The Natural Order To Which Also Belong The Hfilly Hock, Mallow, Hibiscus, Etc., As May Be Readily Seen By A Comparison Of Their Flowers. (for Illus Tration, See Plate With ...
C Him
C Him (1842—). A French Poet, Dramatist, And Novelist. Ile Was Horn In L'aris, January 12, 1842, And Was A Weak. Nervous, Sentimental Boy, Son Of A Clerk In The War Department. His Mother Died In His Childhood, His Father In His Youth. He Obtained A Government Clerkship, But The ...
Catherine 1711 85 Clive
Clive, Catherine ( 1711-85). A Noted Eng Lish Actress, Familiarly Called 'kitty Clive.' She Was A Daughter Of William Rafto•, An Irish Gen Tleman Of Reduced Circumstances, Living In Lou Don. There Is A Doubtful Story About Her Having Been Overheard Singing While Scrubbing A Door Step Where There Were ...
Ccelenterata
Ccelenterata, (neo-lat. Nom. Pl., From Calenteron, Front (.l•:. Noixos, Hollow + Hrepov, Enteral. Intestine). One Of The Phyla Of The Animal Kingdom, Usually Ranked As Next To The Lowest Of The Types Of Aletazoa: The Polyps And Jelly-fishes. It Is Characterized By The Absence Of A Body-cavity And A Separate ...
Centres
Centres. A Point Such That Every Radius Vec Tor (see Co6rdinates ) Drawn From It To A Point On The Curve Is Matched By Another Vector Of The Same Length In The Opposite Direction Is Called The Centre Of A Curve. See Also Circle And The Paragraph On Carrot Are ...
Charitable And Penal Institutions
Charitable And Penal Institutions. The State Has A Large Munher Of Charitable And Penal Institutions. The Humane Institutions Alone Cost In 1900 $365,000, And The Correctional Institu Tions And Soldiers' Innnes, Over $300.000. The Com Bined Amounts Being Much Greater Than The Amount Which The State Government Annually Ex Pends ...
Charles Cornwallis
Cornwallis, Charles, First Afarquis And Second Earl (1738-1805). An English General And Statesman. The Son Of The First Earl Corn Wallis, He Was Born In London, December 31, 1738. After An Education At Eton And Cam Bridge, He Entered The Army, And Served As Aide De-camp To The Marquis Of ...
Christopher Columbus
Columbus, Christopher (the Usual Eng Lish Form, Adopted From The Latinized Form Of The Italian Colomlm, Which Was The Original Spelling Of The Family Name. After The Discov Erer Entered The Spanish Service Be Became Known As Cristobal Colon) (c.1446-1506). The Discoverer Of America. Columbus Was Born In 1445 Or ...
Ciilodwic Clovis
Clo'vis, Ciilodwic, Or ('iilodoyed11 ). A King Of The Franks, Of The Line Of The Merovingians. By The Death Of His Father, In 431, He Became King Of The Salian Franks, Whose Capital Was At Tournai, In What Is Now The Belgian Province Of Hainault. Pis First Achieve Ment Was ...
Classification
Classification. Artificial Colors Were For Merly Classified Merely According To The Sources From Which They Were Obtained. Thus, Many Of Them, Including Magenta, 'aniline Blue,' Ani Line Green; `aniline Yellow,' Etc., Were Grouped Together As Aniline Colors. At Present Somewhat Different Systems Of Classification Are Used By Different Authors, But ...
Claudius Claudianus
Clau'dia'nus, Claudius. A Latin Poet Who Lived In The End Of The Fourth And The Be Ginning Of The Fifth Century, Born At Alexandria. Lle Came To Rome In The Year 395 And There Secured The Patronage Of Stilicho And, Through Him, Of The Emperor Hono•ius. For The Great Vandal ...
Claudius I Tiberiusclaudius
Claudius I. ( Tiberius Claudius Nero Dust's: Officia 1 Ly Ti, Claudius C-esar Gustavus ( If.rmanicus) ( D.c. I0-a.d. Ro Man Emperor (a.d. 41-54). He Was The Youngest Son Of Nero Claudius Drusus, Stepson Of The Emperor Augustus, And Was Born At Lugdunum (lyons), Ti C. 10. Being Naturally Sickly ...
Clausewitz
Clausewitz, Klow-ze-vits, Karl Von 11780-1s31). A Prussian General And Eminent Military Writer, Born At Burg. He Entered The Army In 1792, Took Part In The Campaigns On The Rhine In 1793-94, And Attended The Berlin Academy For Young Officers In 1801-03, When He Attracted Tlw Attention And Won The Fallor ...
Clavicle
Clavicle (lat. Eh/ocala, A Little Key, Dim. Of C(oris, Key). Or Collar-bone. A Long Bone. Curved Somewhat Like The Italic Letter F, And Placed At The Upper And Anterior Part Of The Thorax, In A Nearly Horizontal Position. In Connection With The Scapula Or Shoulder-blade, The Clavicle Forms The Shoulder, ...
Clay Mining And Working
Clay Mining And Working. The Prepara Tion Of Clay For Use In The Plastic Arts Is A Simple Process, Owing To The Accessibility Of Clay-banks And Strata, And The Ease With Which The Material Can Be Separated From The Other Substances With Which It Is Commonly Found. After Preliminary Exploration ...
Clay As
Clay (as. Claw, Ger. Mei: Ultimately Con Nected With Lat. Plus, Gluten, Glue, Gk. Lexoth, Gloios, Gum, Och. Slay. Gl(nu, Slime). A Term Applied To Earthy Material Or Soil Which Shows Plasticity When Wet, Thus Permitting It To Be Molded Into Any Desired Form, Which It Retains When Dry. Its ...
Clayton Bulwer Treaty
Clayton-bulwer Treaty. A Treaty Between The United States And Great Britain, Signed, After Prolonged Negotiations Between Secretary Of State John M. Clayton (q.v.), On The One Side, And Sir Henry Bulwer, Special Am Bassador Of Great Britain, On The Other, On April 19. 1850, The Ratifications Being Exchanged On July ...
Clearing House
Clearing-house. Clearing-house Asso Ciations Are Unions Of Banks, For The Purpose Of Securing A Speedy Settlement Of The Claim« Of Banks Against One Another. The Oldest Of These Is The London Clearing-house. Which Appears To Have Been Established About 1775. The Most Important Clearing-house In The United States Is That ...
Cleavage
Cleavage (from Cleure, As. Elf'ofan, Ger. Hieben, To Cleave, Glubere, To Peel, Gk. 7x6isetp, Glyphrin, To Hollow Out). In Geology, A Property Induced, Under Certain Conditions, Dur Ing Deformation In A Rock By Virtue Of Which The Rock May Be Readily Split Into Parallel Layers Or Rods, I.e. Parallel To ...
Clebsch
Clebsch, Kieds11, Rudolf Friedrich Al Fred A German Mathematician, Born At Kiinigsberg, Prussia. He Studied At K;inigs Berg, Where He Was A Pupil Of Hesse. Riehelot, And F. Neumann. He Held The Chair Of Theo Retical Mechanics At The Polytechnic School In Karlsruhe From 1858 To 1863; Was Ina De ...
Cleistogamous Flowers
Cleistog'amous Flowers (gk. Xneur T6s.•leistos, That Which May Be Closed, From ,cxskzr, Oriel», To Close -ydpos, Gamos, Marriage). Relatively Inconspicuous And-never-open Flowers, Which Occur, Along With The Ordinary Flowers, In Many Plants, Representing All Of The Principal Alliances Of The Flowering Plants. Cleis Togamous Flowers Are Seldom In A Conspicuous ...
Clematis
Clematis Kx?warts, 1;lr•aecrli,c, Brush Wood, From Vine-shoot, From Kxip, Han, To Break). A Genus Of Plants Of The Nat Ural Order Bannneulace:e. Having Four Colored Sepals, Petals Small Or None, And Numerous One Seeded Achenes. With Long,. Generally Feathery, Awns. The Species, Which Number About 150, Are Herbs Or Shrubs, ...
Clement
Clement (lat. C/cnicns, Merciful, Gk. Km /ins, K/eint's). The Name Of Fourteen Popes. Clem Ent I., Commonly Known, In Historical Theology, As 'clement Of Rome.' Is Probably Not Identical With The Clement Mentioned In Phil. Iv. 3. After The Apostles, However, No One Stood In Higher Honor Among The Early ...
Clement Of Alexandria
Clement Of Alexandria (lat. Clemens Alcsandrinvs, Gk. Kx-6/ins- 'axe,savapcios, Ii Leales Alexandreios) (c.150-c.21,5). Titus Flavius Clemens, A Celebrated Greek Father Of The Church. He Was Probably Of Heathen Parentage, And His Birthplace Is Unknown. He Received A Liberal Education, And Sought Out Many Teachers In His Search For Truth. He ...
Clement_2
Clement, ,jacques C.1 567-so ) . The Assassin Of Henry Iii. Of France. Lie Was Born At Sorbon, In The Department Of Ardennes, And In Early Life Seems To Have Been A Soldier. Later Lie Entered A Dominican Convent In Paris. Ignorant, Passionate, And Probably Also Demented, Clement Became A ...
Clementi
Clementi, Kitt-ma'te, Mum° (1752-1832). An Italian Piano Virtuoso And Composer, Born In Rome. His Father, A Goldsmith And • Fer Vent Music-lover, Placed Him Under A Relative, Buroni, For Lessons In Piano And Harmony, And In 1761 Clementi Became An Organist.. Later On, Carpani Taught Him Counterpoint; And Sarta Relli, ...
Cleon
Cleon (tat., From Gk. Kxiwv, Kteon) ( ? -422 N.c.). An Athenian Demagogue, Who Lived In The Early Part Of The Peloponnesian War. Ile Was A On Of Cleametus, And Was By Trade A Leather-deal•. Ile First Caine Into Promi Nence As A Public Speaker Nvir) Was, Opposed To The ...
Cleopatra
Cle'opa'tra (gk. Kxon-cirpa). The Name Of Several Queens And Princesses Of Egypt Of The Family Of The Ptolemies (q.v.). The Most Famous Of Them, Cleopatra Vi., Daughter Of Ptolemy Xiii., Auides, Was Horn In B.c. 69 Or 68. Her Father Died In 51, Leaving A Will Wherein Lie Appointed As ...
Clergy Of
Clergy (of. Clergie, Lat. Cicrieus, Film] Gk, Arpoc6s, Klitikos, Clergyman, Frodi Kxvos, Klcros, Lot). A Term Very Generally Applied To The Ministers Of The Christian Religion, In Eontradis Tinction To The Laity ('i.'.). This Use Of The Term Is Very Ancient, And Appears To Have Grad Ually Become Prevalent, As ...
Clermont Tonnerre
Clermont Tonnerre, Tnifir'. A Well Known French Family. It Originated In Dauphin In The Eleventh Century. Stanislas Marie Ade Laide, Count De (1757-92). Was Born At Pont-ft Mousson. He Entered The States-general In 1789 As Representative Of The Nobility. And There, As Well As In The National Assembly, Ac Quired ...
Cleveland
Cleveland. The County-seat Of Cuyahoga, County, Ohio, The Largest City Of The State, And The Seventh In The United States, And An Impor Tant Industrial And Commercial Centre, Situated On The South Shore Of Lake Erie, At The Mouth Of The Cuyahoga River, In Latitude 410 30' 5" N., Longitude ...
Click Beetle
Click-beetle. A Beetle Of The Family •lateridce, Also Known As Elater, Snapping-bug, And Skip-jnek, On Account Of Its Acrobatic Per Formances. When Disturbed These Beetles Curl Up Their Legs And Fall To .the Ground, Where They Lie Rigid On Their Backs For Some Moments, And Then Begin A Series Of ...
Climate
Climate. The Climate Of Cuba On The Coast Is Extremely Equable, Hut Less So Inland. The Aver Age Temperatures For ,tanuary Vary From 72° F. At The North, To 75° F. At The South, And The July Temperatures Average About 82° F.; The Coast Temperatures Seldom Exceed 90° F. In ...
Climate And
Climate And Son,. The High Altitude Of The State Premises A Cod Temperature: But, Save On The Higher Elevations, Extremes Are Rare. The Climate Being Generally Mild And Remarkably Salubrious. The (lays Are Sometimes Hot, But The Nights Are Cool And Free Of Humidity. The Yearly Mean Temperature At Denver ...
Climate And Soil
Climate And Soil. In Connecticut The Aver Age Annual Temperature Decreases From About 50° F. On The Southern Coast To About 48° In The Northeastern Part And 46° In The North West. In Midwinter The Average Temperatures Decrease From About 30° Along The Southern ?oast To 24° In The Northern ...
Climate Of
Climate (of. C/ifnut, From Lat. Elima, Gk. Chipa, •lima, Region, Slope. From Exivetv, To Incline). A Word Used In Meteorology To Indi Cate The Summation Or General Result Of All The Solar And Terrestrial Influences That Affect Ani Mal Or Vegetable Life. It Is Possible. In Fact, To Disregard The ...
Clipper
Clipper ( Probably Con Nected With Dutch Klepper, Fast Horse. From Kleppen, To Run Swiftly, And Thus With Eng. Clap). A Sailing Vessel Built With Very Sharp Lines. More Or Less Raking Masts. And Great Spread Of Canvas, With A View To Speed; A Development Of A Model For The ...
Cloaca
Cloaca, Klii-a'ka (lat., Sewer). The Doom Or Drains Were Subterranean Passages, Usually Built Of Stone, Devised To Carry Off The Spring Or Waste Water And The Refuse Of A Roman City. In Rome The Early City Was Naturally Drained By Streams Running Through Three Valleys Between The Hills. Three Main ...
Clock Manufacture In Ti1e United
Clock-manufacture In Ti1e United States. American Clocks Were First Manufactured In Con Necticut, About 1800, By Eli Terry. His Clocks Soon Became Popular, And He Continued In Busi Ness Until His Death, When His Sons Succeeded Him, Under The Name Of The 'terry Manufac Turing Company.' Many Neighboring Establish Ments ...
Clocks Provided With Automatons
Clocks Provided With Automatons. The De Sire To Construct Clocks Which Shall Perform Auto Matically Many Other Things Besides Simply Re Cording The Time Of Day Is As Old As Clockmak Mg, And Was Developed To A Wonderful Degree In The Ancient Clepsydrae Of Oriental Nations. In Deed, The Automatons ...
Cloister
Cloister (from Op. Cloistre, Fr. Cloitre, From Ml. Elaustrum, Inclosure, From Clawkre, To Close). Strictly, The Entire Space Inclosed By The Main Encircling Wall Of A Religious Estab Lishment (germ. Kloster, Monastery), Including Church, Dormitories, And All Other Buildings. Thus, All The Buildings For The Body Of Canons Attached To ...
Clontarf
Clontarf' (1r., Bull's Meadow). A Town Of Ireland. About Three Miles East-northeat Of Dublin (map: Ireland, E 3). It Is Much Fre Quented During The Summer Months For Sea Bathing, And There Are Many Handsome Villas In The Vicinity. Clontarf Is Celebrated As The Place Where, Hi 1014, Brian Boroimhe ...
Clothes Moth
Clothes - Moth. Any Of Several Small Moths Of The Genus Tinea, The Larva Of Which Feed On Woolen Fabrics And Furs. In The United States The Depredations Wrought By Clothes Moths, Or 'moth,' Are Caused By At Least Three Different Species, Which Di&r Both In Structure And Habits. One ...
Cloudburst
Cloudburst. A Term First Applied In The United States About 1810, And In India About 1860, To A Sudden Extraordinarily Heavy Local Rain. No Definite Rate Or Amount Of Rainfall, Or Area Covered By It, Has Been Assigned As A Limit Proper For Distinguishing Cloudbursts From Ordinary Heavy Rains. Many ...
Cloudiness As Cloud
Cloud, Cloudiness (as. Dud, Inns's Of Rock, Hillock, Which A Cloud Often Resemhles). In General, Anything That Obscures The Vision Through A Clear Atmosphere. As Clouds Of Dust, Smoke, Or Moisture. The Clouds Of Smoke Over Cities And From Forest Fires And The Clouds Of Dust Over The Plains Of ...
Clouet
Clouet, A French Family Of Paint Ers, Originally Flemish. Jehan, The First Clouet, Lived In Brussels About 1475, And Does Not Seem To Have Left His Country. His Son, Jehan. Called .1ehannet (c.1485-1541), Came To France, And Settled At Tours, Where He Married Jeanne Boucault. Afterwards He Went To Paris, ...
Clough
Clough, Klrif. Artiluit Hugh (1319-61). An English Author. He Was Horn In Liverpool. But When Only Four Years Old Was Taken By His Father, A Merchant, To Charleston, S. C. He Re Turned To England, However, In 1828, And Was At Rugby Under Doctor Arnold, Whose Strenuous Appeal To Moral ...
Clover Insects
Clover - Insects. Various Insects In Juriously Affect Cultivated Clover, Of Which The Following Are Prominent: The Roots Are Attacked By Borers, And The Stems By A Gall-making Bee Tle (lonqurin Liozardil: Also By A Cutworm. The Larva Of The Zebra-moth (q.v.). Weevils Do Great Injury To Clover In Various ...
Clover As
Clover (as. Ehefre, Trefoil, Of Unknown Origin), Or Trefoil ( Tri/o/ii/ ). A Genus Of Plants Of The Natural Order Leguminosa% Suborder Papilionaceir, Containing A Great Number Of Species, Natives Chiefly Of Temperate Climates, Abounding Most Of All In Europe, Although About Sixty Species Are Indigenous To The United States; ...
Cloves
Cloves (from Fr. Doe, From Let. Cloves, Nail, So Called From The Shape). The Dried Flower-buds Of The Clove-tree, Coryophyllus Aro Mallet's, Of The Natural Order Myrtace(e. The Clove-tree Is From 15 To 40 Feet High, Evergreen, With A Beautiful Pyramidal Head. The Flowers Are Small. But Produced In Great ...
Club
Club. A Word Said To Be Derived From The Saxon Eleofan, To Divide—a Club Being An Asso Ciation, The Expeusss Of Which Are Shared Among The Members. Societies Of Somewhat The Same Nature Existed In Ancient Greece And Rome, And Mention Of Them Is Made In Aristotle, Cicero, Plutarch, And ...
Clubs Theatres And Hotels
Clubs. Theatres. And Hotels. The Union, Roadside, Tavern. Colonial. Rowfant, Excelsior, And The Euclid And Country Clubs. All Owning The Houses In Which They Are Installed. The Last Named Being Six Miles Distant To The East On The Lake-front, A Re Representative Organizations. Among The Principal Places Of Amusement Are ...
Clyde
Clyde (called (hotta By Taeitus, Connected With Oir. Clued, Name Of A River, Gk. Xvrew, Klyzein, To Wash Ont, Lat. Clucre, To Purify, Goth. Hlatrs, As. Hiallor, Ger. Tauter, Pure). The Third In Size, Commercially The Most Important, River In Scotland, Widely Celebrated For The Ro Mantic Beauty Of Its ...
Clymer
Clymer, Kli'mer, George (1739-1813). An American Patriot. One Of The Signers Of The Dec Laration Of Independence And A Prominent Mem Ber Of The Constitutional Convention Of 1787. Be Was Born In Philadelphia, Was Orphaned When Only One Year Old, Was Educated At The College Of Philadelphia (now The University ...
Co61erative Production
Co61'erative Production. An Attempt To Solve The More Difficult Problem Of Doing Away With The Employer, The 'entrepreneur,' By Having The Workers Furnish Their Own Capital. Under Our Present Economic System The Distribution Of Wealth Among The Agents Of Production Involves A Grave Conflict Of Interests, Which May Lead To ...
Coach
Coach (fr. Cock', Ger. Kutsche, Probably From Hung. Boost, Coach, Named After A Little Place Called Koes (pronounced Koch) In Western Hungary). A Heavy Inclosed Four-wheeled Car Riage For The Conveyance Of Passengers. The Con Struction Of The Coach Differs From That Of Other Inclosed Vehicles In The Following Particulars: ...