The National Standard Encyclopedia: A Dictionary of Literature, the Sciences and the Arts, for Popular Use. A Volume for Universal Reference Containing Over 20,000 Articles ... with 1,000 IllustrationsA.L. Burt, 1884 - 698 páginas |
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Página 458 - Each legion was divided into ten cohorts, each cohort into three maniples, and each maniple into two centuries.
Página 7 - an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation ; an event which proceeds from an unknown cause, or is an unusual effect of a known cause, and, therefore, not expected.
Página 615 - Simony is the corrupt presentation of any one to an ecclesiastical benefice for money, gift, or reward.
Página 223 - ... small channel running from the sea; a prominence, or jutting, in a winding coast. Creese, krees. A dagger used by the Malays. Cremona, kre-monah. A name given formerly to violins of a very superior kind, made in the seventeenth century, by the Amati family at Cremona, in Italy.
Página 63 - One of a system of cylindrical veasels or tubes, membranous, elastic, and pulsatile, which convey the blood from the heart to all parts of the body...
Página 182 - A circle is a plane bounded by a single curved line called its circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within it called the centre. The circumference itself is usually called a circle.
Página 205 - A CASTLE was the keeper or governor of a castle belonging to the king or to a great baron. These offices were frequently hereditary; thus there were constables or hereditary keepers of the tower, and of the castles of Dover, Windsor, etc.
Página 533 - Both these might be performed by deputy; but the principal was to answer for the success of the trial, the deputy only venturing some corporal pain for hire, or perhaps for friendship.
Página 565 - world's pole " : " one of the two points in which the axis of the earth is supposed to meet the sphere of the heavens ; the fixed point about which the stars appear to revolve. These two extremities or fixed points are called
Página 315 - It is an abbreviation of the word " manufactory," which is " a building or collection of buildings appropriated to the manufacture of goods; 'the place where workers are employed in fabricating goods, wares or utensils; as a cotton factory." Imperial dictionary. It should be noted that both in the statute and in the definition quoted from the dictionary, a factory is declared to be primarily a place. It is a mill, workshop or other manufacturing or business establishment. A manufacturing...