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Aa River -- AA, the name of a large number of small European rivers. The word is derived from the Old German aha, cognate to ( 14 lines )

Andrew Aagesen -- AAGESEN, ANDREW (1826-1879), Danish jurist, was educated for the law at Kristianshavn and Copenhagen, and interrupted ( 25 lines )

Aal -- AAL, also known as A'L, ACH, or AICH, the Hindustani names for the Morinda tinctoria and Morinda citrifalia, ( 9 lines )

Aalborg -- AALBORG, a city and seaport of Denmark, the seat of a bishop, and chief town of the amt (county) of its name, on the south ( 24 lines )

Aalen -- AALEN, a town of Germany, in the kingdom of Wurttemberg, pleasantly situated on the Kocher, at the foot of the Swabian ( 10 lines )

Aalesund -- AALESUND, a seaport of Norway, in Romsdal amt (county), 145 m. N. by E. from Bergen. Pop. (1900) 11,672. It occupies ( 25 lines )

Mehemet Aali -- AALI, MEHEMET, Pasha (1815-1871), Turkish statesman, was born at Constantinople in 1815, the son of a government official. ( 21 lines )

Aar -- AAR, or AARE, the most considerable river which both rises and ends entirely within Switzerland. Its total ( 37 lines )

Aarau -- AARAU, the capital of the Swiss canton of Aargau. In 1900 it had 7831 inhabitants, mostly German-speaking, and mainly ( 26 lines )

Aardvark -- AARD-VARK (meaning "earth pig"), the Dutch name for the mammals of genus Orycteropus, confined to Africa (see ( 26 lines )

Aardwolf -- AARDWOLF (earth-wolf), a South and East African carnivorous mammal (Proteles cristatus), in general appearance like a ( 7 lines )

Aargau -- AARGAU (Fr. Argovie), one of the more northerly Swiss cantons, comprising the lower course of the river Aar (q.v.), ( 70 lines )

Aarhus -- AARHUS, a seaport and bishop's see of Denmark, on the east coast of Jutland, of which it is the principal port; ( 19 lines )

Aaron -- AARON, the traditional founder and head of the Jewish priesthood, who, in company with Moses, led the Israelites ( 92 lines )

Aarons Rod -- AARON'S ROD, the popular name given to various tall flowering plants ("hag taper,', "golden rod," etc.). In architecture ( 6 lines )

[Francis Van Aarssens]? -- AARSSENS, or AARSSEN, FRANCIS VAN (1572-1641), a celebrated diplomat and statesman of the United Provinces. ( 21 lines )

Ivar Aasen -- AASEN, IVAR (1813-1896), Norwegian philologist and lexicographer, was born at Aasen i Orsten, in Sondmore, ( 56 lines )

Aba -- ABA. (1) A form of altazimuth instrument, invented by, and Cabled after, Antoine d'Abbadie; (2) a rough homespun manufactured in ( 4 lines )

Ababda -- ABABDA (the Gebadei of Pliny, probably the Troglodytes of classical writers), a nomad tribe of African "Arabs,, of Hamitic ( 76 lines )

Abaca -- ABACA, or ABAKA, a native name for the plant Musa textilis, which produces the fiber called Manila Hemp (q.v.). . ( 3 lines )

Abacus -- ABACUS (Gr. abax, a slab Fr. abaque, tailloir), in architecture, the upper member of the capital of a column. ( 67 lines )

Abaddon -- ABADDON, a Hebrew word meaning "destruction." In poetry it comes to mean "place of destruction," and so the ( 11 lines )

Abadeh -- ABADEH, a small walled town of Persia, in the province of Fars, situated at an elevation of 6200 ft. in a fertile ( 9 lines )

Abae -- ABAE (rabai), a town in the N.E. corner of Phocis, in Greece, famous in early times for its oracle of Apollo, ( 25 lines )

Abakansk -- ABAKANSK, a fortified town of Siberia, in the Russian government of Yeniseisk, on the river Yenisei, 144 m. S.S.W. ( 8 lines )

Abalone -- ABALONE, the Spanish name used in California for various species of the shell-fish of the Haliotidae family, with a ( 10 lines )

Abana -- ABANA (or AMANAH, classical Chrysorrhoas) and PHARPAR, the "rivers of Damascus" (2 Kings v. 12), now generally ( 19 lines )

Charles Xavier Joseph De Franque Ville Abancourt -- ABANCOURT, CHARLES XAVIER JOSEPH DE FRANQUE VILLE D', (1758-1792), French statesman, and nephew of Calonne. He was ( 14 lines )

Abandonment -- ABANDONMENT (Fr. abandonnement, from abandonner, to abandon, relinquish; abandonner was originally equivalent ( 28 lines )

[Abandonment of An Action]? -- ABANDONMENT OF AN ACTION is the discontinuance of proceedings commenced in the High Court of Justice either because the ( 12 lines )

[Abandonment In Marine Insurance]? -- ABANDONMENT IN MARINE INSURANCE is the surrender of the ship or goods insured to the insurers, in the case of a constructive ( 5 lines )

[Abandonment of Wife And Children]? -- ABANDONMENT OF WIFE AND CHILDREN is dealt with under DESERTION, and the abandonment or exposure of a ( 5 lines )

[Abandonment of Domicile]? -- ABANDONMENT OF DOMICILE is the ceasing to reside permanently in a former domicile coupled with the intention of choosing a new ( 6 lines )

[Abandonment of An Easement]? -- ABANDONMENT OF AN EASEMENT is the relinquishment of some accommodation or right in another's land, such as right of ( 4 lines )

[Abandonment of Railways]? -- ABANDONMENT OF RAILWAYS has a legal signification in England recognized by statute, by authority of which the Board of ( 5 lines )

[Pietro Abano]? -- ABANO, PIETRO D, (1250-1316), known also as PETRUS DE ( 1 lines )

Apono? -- APONO or APONENSIS, Italian physician and philosopher, was born at the Italian town from which he takes his name ( 25 lines )

Abano Bagni -- ABANO BAGNI, a town of Venetia, Italy, in the province of Padua, on the E. slope of the Monti Euganei; it is 6 m. S.W. ( 11 lines )

Abaris -- ABARIS, a Scythian or Hyperborean, priest and prophet of Apollo, who is said to have visited Greece about 770 ( 11 lines )

Abated -- ABATED, an ancient technical term applied in masonry and metal work to those portions which are sunk beneath the ( 5 lines )

Abatement -- ABATEMENT (derived through the French abattre, from the Late Latin battere, to beat), a beating down or diminishing or ( 40 lines )

[Abatement of A Nuisance]? -- ABATEMENT OF A NUISANCE is the remedy allowed by law to a person or public authority injured by a public nuisance ( 8 lines )

[Abatement of Freehold]? -- ABATEMENT OF FREEHOLD takes place where, after the death of the person last seised, a stranger enters upon lands before ( 9 lines )

[Abatement Oe Debts And Legacies]? -- ABATEMENT OE DEBTS AND LEGACIES. When the equitable assets (see ASSETS) of a deceased person are not sufficient to ( 11 lines )

[Abatement In Pleading]? -- ABATEMENT IN PLEADING, or plea in abatement, was the defeating or quashing of a particular action by some matter of ( 15 lines )

[Abatement In Litigation]? -- ABATEMENT IN LITIGATION. In civil proceedings, no action abates by reason of the marriage, death or bankruptcy of any ( 10 lines )

[Abatement of False Lights]? -- ABATEMENT OF FALSE LIGHTS. By the Merchant Shipping Act 1854, the general lighthouse authority (see LIGHTHOUSE) has ( 5 lines )

[Abatement In Commerce]? -- ABATEMENT IN COMMERCE is a deduction sometimes made at a custom-house from the fixed duties on certain kinds of goods, on ( 6 lines )

[Abatement In Heraldry]? -- ABATEMENT IN HERALDRY is a badge in coat-armour, indicating some kind of degradation or dishonour. It is called also rebatement. ( 3 lines )

[Niccolo Abati]? -- ABATI, or DELL' ABBATO, NICCOLO (1512--1571), a celebrated fresco-painter of Modena, whose best works are there and at ( 9 lines )

Abatis -- ABATIS,ABATTIS or ABBATTIS (a French word meaning a heap of material thrown), a term in field fortification ( 7 lines )

Abattoir -- ABATTOIR (from abattre, to strike down), a French word often employed in English as an equivalent of "slaughter-house" ( 4 lines )

Firmin Abauzit -- ABAUZIT, FIRMIN (1679-1767), a learned Frenchman, was born of Protestant parents at Uzes, in Languedoc. His father died when ( 54 lines )

Abbadides -- ABBADIDES, a Mahommedan dynasty which arose in Spain on the downfall of the western caliphate. It lasted from about 1023 ( 95 lines )

[Antoine Thomson Abbadie]? -- ABBADIE, ANTOINE THOMSON D', (1810-1897), and ARNAUD MICHEL D', (1815-1893), two brothers notable for their travels in ( 57 lines )

Jakob Abbadie -- ABBADIE, JAKOB (1654?-1727), Swiss Protestant divine, was born at Nay in Bern. He studied at Sedan, Saumur and ( 27 lines )

Abba Mari -- ABBA MARI (in full, Abba Mari ben Moses benJoseph), French rabbi, was born at Lunel, near Montpellier, towards the end of ( 31 lines )

[Abbas I of Egypt]? -- ABBAS I. (1813-1854), pasha of Egypt, was a son of Tusun Pasha and grandson of Mehemet Ali, founder of the reigning ( 21 lines )

Abbas II -- ABBAS II. (1874-- ), khedive of Egypt. Abbas Hilmi Pasha, great-great-grandson of Mehemet Ali, born on the 14th of ( 38 lines )

[Abbas I of Persia]? -- ABBAS I. (e. 1557-1628 or 1629), shah of Persia, called the Great, was the son of shah Mahommed (d. 1586) . In the ( 39 lines )

Abbasids -- ABBASIDS, the name generally given to the caliphs of Bagdad, the second of the two great dynasties of the Mahommedan ( 49 lines )

Abbas Mirza -- ABBAS MIRZA (c. 1783-1833), prince of Persia, was a younger son of the shah, Feth Ali, but on account of his ( 24 lines )

Abbas-tuman? -- ABBAS-TUMAN, a spa in Russian Transcaucasia, government of Tiflis, 50 m. S.W. of the Borzhom railway station and 65 ( 6 lines )

Abbazia -- ABBAZIA, a popular summer and winter resort of Austria, in Istria, 56 m. S.E. of Trieste by rail. Pop. (1900) 2343. It ( 13 lines )

Abbess -- ABBESS (Lat. abbatissa, fem. form of abbas, abbot), the female superior of an abbey or convent of nuns. The ( 34 lines )

Abbeville -- ABBEVILLE, a town of northern France, capital of an arrondissement in the department of Somme, on the Somme, 12 ( 39 lines )

Edwin Austin Abbey -- ABBEY, EDWIN AUSTIN (1852- ), American painter, was born at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the 1st of April 1852. He left ( 43 lines )

Abbey -- ABBEY, EDWIN AUSTIN (1852- ), American painter, was born at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the 1st of April 1852. He left ( 43 lines )

Abbon of Fleury -- ABBON OF FLEURY, or ABBO FLORIACENSIS (c. 945-1004), a learned Frenchman, born near Orleans about 945. He distinguished ( 23 lines )

Ezra Abbot -- ABBOT, EZRA (1819--1884), American biblical scholar, was born at Jackson, Waldo county, Maine, on the 28th of April ( 47 lines )

George Abbot -- ABBOT, GEORGE (1562-1633), English divine, archbishop of Canterbury, was born on the 19th of October 1562, at Guildford in ( 65 lines )

Robert Abbot -- ABBOT, ROBERT (1588?-1662?), English Puritan divine. Noted as this worthy was in his own time, and representative in ( 41 lines )

William Abbot -- ABBOT, WILLIAM (1798--1843), English actor, was born in Chelsea, and made his first appearance on the stage at Bath ( 16 lines )

Abbot -- ABBOT, EZRA (1819--1884), American biblical scholar, was born at Jackson, Waldo county, Maine, on the 28th of April ( 135 lines )

Abbotsford -- ABBOTSFORD, formerly the residence of Sir Walter Scott, situated on the S. bank of the Tweed, about 3 m. W. of Melrose, ( 36 lines )

Edwin Arrott Abbott -- ABBOTT, EDWIN ARROTT (1838- ), English schoolmaster and theologian, was born on the 20th of December 1838. He ( 30 lines )

Emma Abbott -- ABBOTT, EMMA (1849-1891), American singer, was born at Chicago and studied in Milan and Paris. She had a fine soprano ( 9 lines )

Jacob Abbott -- ABBOTT, JACOB (1803-1879), American writer of books for the young, was born at Hallowell, Maine, on the 14th of November ( 40 lines )

John Stevens Cabot Abbott -- ABBOTT, JOHN STEVENS CABOT (1805-1877), American writer, was born in Brunswick, Maine, on the 18th of September ( 22 lines )

Lyman Abbott -- ABBOTT, LYMAN (1835- ), American divine and author, was born at Roxbury, Massachusetts, on the 18th of December 1835, ( 34 lines )

Abbottadad -- ABBOTTADAD, a town of British India, 4120 ft. above sealevel, 63 m. from Rawalpindi, the headquarters of the ( 9 lines )

Abbreviation -- ABBREVIATION (Lat. brevis, short), strictly a shortening; more particularly, an "abbreviation" is a letter or group ( 647 lines )

Abbreviators -- ABBREVIATORS, a body of writers in the papal chancery, whose business was to sketch out and prepare in due form the ( 21 lines )

Abdallatif -- ABDALLATIF, or ABD-UL-LATIF (1162-1231), a celebrated physician and traveller, and one of the most voluminous writers ( 35 lines )

Abd-ar-rahman -- ABD-AR-RAHMAN, the name borne by five princes of the Omayyad dynasty, amirs and caliphs of Cordova, two of them being rulers of great capacity. ( 11 lines )

Abd-ar-rahman II -- ABD-AR-RAHMAN II. (822-852) was one of the weaker of the Spanish Omayyads. He was a prince with a taste for ( 7 lines )

Abd-ar-rahman III -- ABD-AR-RAHMAN III. (912-961) was the greatest and the most successful of the princes of his dynasty in Spain (for the ( 84 lines )

[Abd-el-aziz IV]? -- ABD-EL-AZIZ IV. (1880- ), sultan of Morocco, son of Sultan Mulai el Hasan III. by a Circassian wife. He was fourteen ( 68 lines )

Abd-el-kader? -- ABD-EL-KADER (c. 1807-1883), amir of Mascara, the great opponent of the conquest of Algeria by France, was born near ( 65 lines )

[Abdera Spain]? -- ABDERA, an ancient seaport town on the south coast of Spain, between Malaca and New Carthage, in the district inhabited by the ( 13 lines )

[Abdera Thrace]? -- ABDERA, a town on the coast of Thrace near the mouth of the Nestos, and almost opposite Thasos. Its mythical foundation ( 21 lines )

Abdication -- ABDICATION (Lat. abdicatio, disowning, renouncing, from ab, from, and dicare, to declare, to proclaim as ( 79 lines )

Abdomen -- ABDOMEN (a Latin word, either from abdere, to hide, or from a form adipomen, from adeps, fat), the belly, ( 6 lines )

[Abdominal Surgery]? -- ABDOMINAL SURGERY.---The diseases affecting this region are dealt with generally in the article DIGESTIVE ORGANS, ( 245 lines )

Abduction -- ABDUCTION (Lat. abductio, abducere, to lead away), a law term denoting the forcible or fraudulent removal of a ( 37 lines )

Abd-ul-aziz? -- ABD-UL-AZIZ (1830-1876), sultan of Turkey, son of Sultan Mahmud II., was born on the 9th of February 1830, and ( 40 lines )

Abd-ul-hamid? -- ABD-UL-HAMID I.,(1725-1789), sultan of Turkey, son of Ahmed III., succeeded his brother Mustafa III. in 1773. Long ( 21 lines )

[Abd-ul-hamid II]? -- ABD-UL-HAMID II. (1842- ), sultan of Turkey, son of Sultan Abd-ul-Mejid, was born on the 21st of September 1842, and ( 145 lines )

Abd-ul-mejid? -- ABD-UL-MEJID (1823-.1861), sultan of Turkey, was born on the 23rd of April 1823, and succeeded his father Mahmud II. ( 62 lines )

Abdur Rahman Khan -- ABDUR RAHMAN KHAN, amir of Afghanistan (c. 1844-1901), was the son of Afzul Khan, who was the eldest son of Dost ( 186 lines )

Abecedarians? -- ABECEDARIANS, a nickname given to certain extreme Anabaptists (q.v.), who regarded the teaching of the Holy ( 48 lines )

Abednego? -- ABEDNEGO, the name given in Babylon to Azariah, one of the companions of Daniel (Dan. i. 7, etc.). It is probably a ( 8 lines )

Heinrich Abeken -- ABEKEN, HEINRICH (1809-1872), German theologian and Prussian official, was born at Berlin on the 8th of August ( 21 lines )

Abel -- ABEL (Hebrew for breath), the second son of Adam, slain by Cain, his elder brother (Gen. iv. 1-16). The narrative ( 69 lines )

Frederick Augustus Abel -- ABEL, SIR FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, BART. (1827-1902), English chemist, was born in London on the 17th of July 1827. After ( 51 lines )

Karl Friedrich Abel -- ABEL, KARL FRIEDRICH (1725-1787), German musician, was born in Kothen in 1725, and died on the 20th of June 1787 in ( 26 lines )

Niels Henrik Abel -- ABEL, NIELS HENRIK (1802-1829), Norwegian mathematician, was born at Findoe on the 25th of August 1802. In 1815 he ( 52 lines )

Thomas Abel -- ABEL (better ABELL), THOMAS (d. 1540), an English priest who was martyred during the reign of Henry VIII. The place ( 22 lines )

Peter Abelard -- ABELARD, PETER (1079-1142), scholastic philosopher, was born at Pallet (Palais), not far from Nantes, in 1079. He was the ( 276 lines )

Johann Philipp Abelin -- ABELIN, JOHANN PHILIPP, an early 16th-century German chronicler, was born, probably, at Strasburg, and died there ( 21 lines )

Abencerrages -- ABENCERRAGES, a family or faction that is said to have held a prominent position in the Moorish kingdom of Granada in the 15th ( 16 lines )

Abendana? -- ABENDANA, the name of two Jewish theologians. (1) JACOB (1630-i695), rabbi (Hakham) of the Spanish Jews in London ( 10 lines )

Abenezra -- ABENEZRA (IBN EZRA), or, to give him his full name, ( 1 lines )

[Abraham Ben Meir Ibn]? -- ABRAHAM BEN MEIR IBN Ezra (1092 or 1093-1167), one of the most distinguished Jewish men of letters and writers of the ( 76 lines )

Abensberg -- ABENSBERG, a town of Germany, in the kingdom of Bavaria, on the Abens, a tributary of the Danube, 18 m. S.W. of Regensburg, ( 9 lines )

Abeokuta -- ABEOKUTA, a town of British West Africa in the Egba division of the Yoruba country, S. Nigeria Protectorate. It ( 71 lines )

Aberavon -- ABERAVON, a contributory parliamentary and municipal borough of Glamorganshire, Wales, on the right bank of the Avon, near ( 37 lines )

Abercarn -- ABERCARN, an urban district in the southern parliamentary division of Monmouthshire, England, 10 m. N.W. of Newport ( 8 lines )

[James Hamilton of Abercorn]? -- ABERCORN, JAMES HAMILTON, 1ST EARL OF (c. 1575-1618), was the eldest son of Claud Hamilton, Lord Paisley (4th son of ( 17 lines )

John Abercrombie -- ABERCROMBIE, JOHN (1780-1844), Scottish physician, was the son of the Rev. George Abercrombie of Aberdeen, where he was born ( 18 lines )

David Abercromby -- ABERCROMBY, DAVID, a 17th-century Scottish physician who was sufficiently noteworthy a generation after the probable ( 27 lines )

Patrick Abercromby -- ABERCROMBY, PATRICK (1656-c.1716), Scottish physician and antiquarian, was the third son of Alexander Abercromby ( 48 lines )

Ralph Abercromby -- ABERCROMBY, SIR RALPH (1734-1801), British lieutenant-general, was the eldest son of George Abercromby of Tillibody, ( 106 lines )

[Henry Austin Bruce Aberdare]? -- ABERDARE, HENRY AUSTIN BRUCE, 1ST BARON (1815-1895), English statesman, was born at Duffryn, Aberdare, Glamorganshire, on ( 47 lines )

Aberdare -- ABERDARE, HENRY AUSTIN BRUCE, 1ST BARON (1815-1895), English statesman, was born at Duffryn, Aberdare, Glamorganshire, on ( 47 lines )

[George Gordon of Aberdeen]? -- ABERDEEN, GEORGE GORDON, 1ST EARL OF (1637-1720), lord chancellor of Scotland, son of Sir John Gordon, 1st baronet ( 69 lines )

[George Hamilton Gordon of Aberdeen]? -- ABERDEEN, GEORGE HAMILTON GORDON, 4TH EARL OF (1784-1860), English statesman, was the eldest son of George Gordon, Lord ( 196 lines )

Aberdeen -- ABERDEEN, GEORGE GORDON, 1ST EARL OF (1637-1720), lord chancellor of Scotland, son of Sir John Gordon, 1st baronet ( 427 lines )

Aberdeenshire -- ABERDEENSHIRE, a north-eastern county of Scotland, bounded N. and E. by the North Sea, S. by Kincardine, Forfar and ( 434 lines )

Aberdour -- ABERDOUR, a village of Fifeshire, Scotland. Pleasantly situated on the shore of the Firth of Forth, 17 1/2 m. N.W. ( 22 lines )

Aberdovey -- ABERDOVEY (Aberdyfi: the Dyfi is the county frontier), a seaside village of Merionethshire, North Wales, on the Cambrian ( 11 lines )

Aberfoyle -- ABERFOYLE, a village and parish of Perthshire, Scotland, 34 1/4 m. N. by W. of Glasgow by the North British railway. Pop. ( 17 lines )

Abergavenny -- ABERGAVENNY, a market town and municipal borough in the northern parliamentary division of Monmouthshire, England, 14 ( 71 lines )

[George Robert Aberigh-mackay]? -- ABERIGH-MACKAY, GEORGE ROBERT (1848-1881), Anglo-Indian writer, son of a Bengal chaplain, was born on the 25th ( 12 lines )

John Abernethy -- ABERNETHY, JOHN (1680-1740), Irish Presbyterian divine, was born at Coleraine, county Londonderry, where his father ( 54 lines )

Aberration -- ABERRATION (Lat. ab, from or away, errare, to wander), a deviation or wandering, especially used in the figurative ( 233 lines )

Abersychan -- ABERSYCHAN, an urban district in the northern parliamentary division of Monmouthshire, England, 11 m. N. by W. of Newport, ( 9 lines )

Abertillery -- ABERTILLERY, an urban district in the western parliamentary division of Monmouthshire, England, 16 m. N.W. of Newport, on ( 10 lines )

Aberystwyth -- ABERYSTWYTH, a municipal borough, market-town and seaport of Cardiganshire, Wales, near the confluence of the rivers Ystwyth ( 37 lines )

Abettor -- ABETTOR (from "to abet," O. Fr. abeter, a and beter, to bait, urge dogs upon any one; this word is probably of Scandinavian ( 15 lines )

Abeyance -- ABEYANCE (O. Fr. abeance, "gaping"), a state of expectancy in respect of property, titles or office, when the ( 30 lines )

Abgar -- ABGAR, a name or title borne by a line of kings or toparchs, apparently twenty-nine in number, who reigned in ( 49 lines )

[Apocryphal Literature]? -- APOCRYPHAL LITERATURE, sect. "New Testament" (c.)

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Abhidhamma -- ABHIDHAMMA, the name of one of the three Pitakas, or baskets of tradition, into which the Buddhist scriptures ( 48 lines )

Abhorrers -- ABHORRERS, the name given in 1679 to the persons who expressed their abhorrence at the action of those who ( 22 lines )

Abiathar -- ABIATHAR (Heb. Ebyathar, "the [divine] father is pre-eminent"), in the Bible, son of Ahimelech or Ahijah, ( 15 lines )

[Otto Wilhelm Hermann Von Abich]? -- ABICH, OTTO WILHELM HERMANN VON (1806-1886), German mineralogist and geologist, was born at Berlin on the 11th ( 20 lines )

Abigail -- ABIGAIL (Heb. Abigayil, perhaps "father is joy"), or ( 1 lines )

Abigal? -- ABIGAL (2 Sam. iii. 3), in the Bible, the wife of Nabal the Carmelite, on whose death she became the wife of David (1 Sam. ( 11 lines )

Abijah -- ABIJAH (Heb. Abiyyah and Abiyyahu, "Yah is father"), a name borne by nine different persons mentioned in the Old ( 22 lines )

Abila -- ABILA, (1) a city of ancient Syria, the capital of the tetrarchy of Abilene, a territory whose extent it is impossible ( 16 lines )

Nikolaj Abraham Abildgaard -- ABILDGAARD, NIKOLAJ ABRAHAM (1744-1809), called "the Father of Danish Painting," was born at Copenhagen, the ( 12 lines )

Abimelech -- ABIMELECH (Hebrew for "father of [or is] the king"). (1) A king of Gerar in South Palestine with whom Isaac, in ( 74 lines )

Abingdon -- ABINGDON, a market town and municipal borough in the Abingdon parliamentary division of Berkshire, England, 6 ( 71 lines )

James Scarlett Abinger -- ABINGER, JAMES SCARLETT, 1ST BARON (1769-1844), English judge, was born on the 13th of December 1760 in Jamaica, where ( 50 lines )

Frances Abington -- ABINGTON, FRANCES (1737-1815), English actress, was the daughter of a private soldier named Barton, and was, at ( 28 lines )

Abiogenesis -- ABIOGENESIS, in biology, the term, equivalent to the older terms "spontaneous generation," Generatio acquivoca, ( 91 lines )

Abipones -- ABIPONES, a tribe of South American Indians of Guaycuran stock recently inhabiting the territory lying between Santa ( 38 lines )

Abitibbi -- ABITIBBI, a lake and river of Ontario, Canada. The lake, in 49 deg. N., 80 deg. W., is 60 m. long and studded with islands. ( 10 lines )

Abjuration -- ABJURATION (from Lat. abjurare, to forswear), a solemn repudiation or renunciation on oath. At common law, it ( 10 lines )

Abkhasia -- ABKHASIA, or ABHASIA, a tract of Russian Caucasia, government of Kutais. The Caucasus mountains on the N. and ( 21 lines )

Ablation? -- ABLATION (from Lat. ablatus, carried away), the process of removing anything; a term used technically in geology of the wearing ( 4 lines )

Ablatitious? -- ABLATITIOUS (from Lat. ablatus, taken away). reducina or withdrawing; in astronomy a force which interferes ( 6 lines )

Ablative? -- ABLATIVE (Lat. ablativus, sc. casus, from ablatum, taken away), in grammar, a case of the noun, the fundamental sense ( 13 lines )

Ablution? -- ABLUTION (Lat. ablutio, from ablucre, "to wash off"), a washing, in its religious use, destined to secure that ( 102 lines )

Abnaki? -- ABNAKI ("the whitening sky at daybreak," i.e. Easterners), a confederacy of North American Indians of Algonquian stock, ( 19 lines )

Abner -- ABNER (Hebrew for "father of [or is a light"), in the Bible, first cousin of Saul and commander-in-chief of ( 61 lines )

Abo? -- ABO (Finnish Turku), a city and seaport, the capital of the province of Abo-Bjorneborg, in the grand duchy of ( 39 lines )

Abomasum? -- ABOMASUM (caillette), the fourth or rennet stomach of Ruminantia. From the omasum the food is finally deposited ( 10 lines )

Abomey? -- ABOMEY, capital of the ancient kingdom of Dahomey, West Africa, now included in the French colony of the same name. ( 24 lines )

Aborigines? -- ABORIGINES, a mythical people of central Italy, connected in legendary ( 32 lines )

Abortion -- ABORTION (from Lat. aboriri, to fail to be born, or perish), in obstetrics, the premature separation and expulsion of the ( 155 lines )

Aboukir? -- ABOUKIR, a village on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt, 14 1/2 m. N.E. of Alexandria by rail, containing a castle used ( 19 lines )

[Edmond Francois Valentin About]? -- ABOUT, EDMOND FRANCOIS VALENTIN (1828-1885), French novelist, publicist and journalist, was born on the 14th of February ( 71 lines )

[Isaac Abrabanel]? -- ABRABANEL, ISAAC, called also ABRAVANEL, ABARBANEL (1437-1508), Jewish statesman, philosopher, theologian and ( 25 lines )

Abracadabra? -- ABRACADABRA, a word analogous to Abraxas (q.v.), used as a magical formula by the Gnostics of the sect of Basilides ( 43 lines )

Abraham -- ABRAHAM BEN MEIR IBN Ezra (1092 or 1093-1167), one of the most distinguished Jewish men of letters and writers of the ( 444 lines )

[Abraham A Sancta Clara]? -- ABRAHAM A SANCTA CLARA (1644-1709), Austrian divine, was born at Kreenheinstetten, near Messkirch, in July ( 31 lines )

[Abraham Ibn Daud]? -- ABRAHAM IBN DAUD (c. 1110-1180), Jewish historiographer and philosopher of Toledo. His historical work was the ( 13 lines )

Abrahamites? -- ABRAHAMITES, a sect of deists in Bohemia in the 18th century, who professed to be followers of the pre-circumcised ( 11 lines )

Abraham-men? -- ABRAHAM-MEN, the nickname for vagrants who infested England in Tudor times. The phrase is certainly as old as 1561, and ( 9 lines )

Abrantes? -- ABRANTES, a town of central Portugal, in the district of Santarem, formerly included in the province of Estremadura; ( 19 lines )

Abrasion? -- ABRASION (from Lat. ab, off, and radere, to scrape), the process of rubbing off or wearing down, as of rock by moving ( 10 lines )

[Abraum Salts]? -- ABRAUM SALTS (from the German Abraum-salze, salts to be removed), the name given to a mixed deposit of ( 5 lines )

Abraxas -- ABRAXAS, or ABRASAX, a word engraved on certain antique stones, called on that account Abraxas stones, which were used ( 18 lines )

Abrogation? -- ABROGATION (Lat. abrogare, to repeal or annul a law; rogare, literally "to ask," to propose a law), the ( 19 lines )

[Abruzzi E Molise]? -- ABRUZZI E MOLISE, a group of provinces (compartimento) of Southern Italy, bounded N. by the province of Ascoli, N.W. ( 82 lines )

Absalom -- ABSALOM (Hebrew for "father of [or is] peace"), in the Bible, the third son of David, king of Israel. He was deemed ( 41 lines )

Absalon -- ABSALON (c. 1128-1201), Danish archbishop and statesman, was born about 1128, the son of Asser Rig of Fjenneslev, ( 99 lines )

Abscess -- ABSCESS (from Lat. abscedere, to separate), in pathology, a collection of pus among the tissues of the body, the result ( 56 lines )

Abscissa? -- ABSCISSA (from the Lat. abscissus, cut off), in the Cartesian system of co-ordinates, the distance of a point ( 8 lines )

Abscission? -- ABSCISSION (from Lat. abscinidere), a tearing away, or cutting off; a term used sometimes in prosody for the elision of ( 7 lines )

Abscond? -- ABSCOND (Lat. abscondcre, to hide, put away), to depart in a secret manner; in law, to remove from the jurisdiction of the ( 7 lines )

Absence? -- ABSENCE (Lat. absentia), the fact of being "away," either in body or mind; "absence of mind" being a ( 10 lines )

Absenteeism? -- ABSENTEEISM, a term used primarily of landed proprietors who absent themselves from their estates, and live and spend their ( 23 lines )

Absinthe? -- ABSINTHE a liqueur or aromatized spirit, the characteristic flavouring matter of which is derived from various species of ( 21 lines )

Absolute? -- ABSOLUTE (Lat. absolvere, to loose, set free), a term having the general signification of independent, self-existent, ( 108 lines )

Absolution? -- ABSOLUTION (Lat. absolutio from absolvo, loosen, acquit), a term used in civil and ecclesiastical law, denoting the ( 54 lines )

Absolutism? -- ABSOLUTISM, in aesthetics, a term applied to the theory that beauty is an objective attribute of things, not merely ( 17 lines )

[Absorption of Light]? -- ABSORPTION OF LIGHT. The term "absorption" (from Lat. absorbere) means literally "sucking up" or "swallowing," and ( 166 lines )

Abstemii? -- ABSTEMII (a Latin word. from abs. away from. temetum. intoxicating liquor, from which is derived the English ( 15 lines )

Abstinence -- ABSTINENCE (from Lat. abstinere, to abstain), the fact or habit of refraining from anything, but usually from the ( 8 lines )

Abstraction? -- ABSTRACTION (Lat. abs and trahere), the process or result of drawing away; that which is drawn away, separated or ( 46 lines )

[Abstract of Title]? -- ABSTRACT OF TITLE, in English law, an epitome of the various instruments and events under and in consequence ( 8 lines )

[Franz Abt]? -- ABT, FRANZ (1819-1885), German composer, was born on the 22nd of December 1819 at Eilenburg, Saxony, and died at ( 11 lines )

Abu? -- ABU, a mountain of Central India, situated in 24 deg. 36' N. lat. and 72 deg. 43' E. long., within the Rajputana state of ( 168 lines )

Abu Bakr -- ABU-BEKR (573-634), the name ("Father of the virgin") of the first of the Mahommedan caliphs (see CALIPH.) He was ( 58 lines )

[Abu Hamed]? -- ABU HAMED, a town of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan on the right bank of the Nile, 345 m. by rail N. of Khartum. It stands ( 12 lines )

[Abu Hanifa An-numan Ibn Thabit]? -- ABU HANIFA AN-NU`MAN IBN THABIT, Mahommedan canon lawyer, was born at Kufa in A.H. 80 (A.D. 699) of non-Arab ( 40 lines )

[Abu Klea]? -- ABU KLEA, a halting-place for caravans in the Bayuda Desert, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. It is on the road from Merawi ( 12 lines )

[Abu-l-ala Ul-ma-arri]? -- ABU-L-`ALA UL-MA.ARRI [Abu-l-`Alaa Ahmad ibn `Abdallah ibn Sulaiman] (973-1057), Arabian poet and letter-writer, ( 54 lines )

Abu-l-atahiya? -- ABU-L-`ATAHIYA [Abu Ishaq Isma`il ibn Qasim al-`Anazi] (748-828), Arabian poet, was born at Ain ut-Tamar ( 30 lines )

Abulparaj? -- ABULPARAJ [Abu-l-Faraj,Ah ibn ul-Husain ul-Isbahani] (897--967), Arabian scholar, was a member of the tribe of the ( 30 lines )

[Abul Pazl]? -- ABUL PAZL, wazir and historiographer of the great Mogul emperor, Akbar, was born in the year A.D. 1551. His ( 22 lines )

Abulfeda -- ABULFEDA [Abud-Fida' Isma'Il ibn'Ah,Imad-ud-Dni] (1273-1331), Arabian historian and geographer, was born at ( 48 lines )

Abu-l-qasim? -- ABU-L-QASIM [Khalaf ibn'Abbas uz-Zahrawi], Arabian physician and surgeon, generally known in Europe as ( 2 lines )

Abulcasis? -- ABULCASIS, flourished in the tenth century at Cordova as physician to the caliph 'Abdur-Rahman III. (912--961). No ( 12 lines )

Abundantia? -- ABUNDANTIA ("Abundance"), a Roman goddess, the personification of prosperity and good fortune. Modelled after the Greek Demeter, ( 12 lines )

[Abu Nuwas]? -- ABU NUWAS [Abu,Ah Hal-asan ibn Hani'al-Hakami] (c. 756-810), known as Abu Nuwas, Arabian poet, was born in al ( 30 lines )

[Abu Simbel]? -- ABU SIMBEL, or IPSAMBUL, the name of a group of temples of Rameses II. (c. 1250 B.C.) in Nubia, on the left ( 67 lines )

[Abu Tammam]? -- ABU TAMMAM [Habib ibn Aus] (807-846), Arabian poet, was, like Buhturi, of the tribe of Tai (though some say ( 30 lines )

Abutilon? -- ABUTILON (from the Arabic aubutilun, a name given by Avicenna to this or an allied genus), in botany, a genus of ( 12 lines )

Abutment? -- ABUTMENT, a construction in stone or brickwork designed to receive and resist the lateral pressure of an arch, vault or ( 4 lines )

[Abu Ubaida]? -- ABU UBAIDA [Ma,mar ibn ul-Muthanna] (728-825), Arabian scholar, was born a slave of Jewish Persian parents in Basra, ( 29 lines )

Abydos -- ABYDOS, an ancient city of Mysia, in Asia Minor, situated at Nagara Point on the Hellespont, which is here scarcely a mile ( 14 lines )

Abyss? -- ABYSS (Gr. a-, privative, bussos, bottom), a bottomless depth; hence any deep place. From the late popular abyssimus ( 39 lines )

Abyssinia -- ABYSSINIA (officially ETHIOPIA), an inland country and empire of N.E. Africa lying, chiefly, between 5 deg. and 15 deg. N. ( 1907 lines )

[Abyssinian Church]? -- ABYSSINIAN CHURCH. As the chronicle of Axum relates, Christianity was adopted in Abyssinia in the 4th century. ( 82 lines )

Acacia -- ACACIA, a genus of shrubs and trees belonging to the family Leguminosae and the sub-family Mimoseae. The small flowers ( 65 lines )

Academies? -- ACADEMIES. The word "academy" is derived from "the olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement," the birthplace ( 1372 lines )

[Greek Academy]? -- ACADEMY, GREEK or ACADEME (Gr. akademeia or ekademia), the name given to the philosophic successors of ( 146 lines )

[Royal Academy]? -- ACADEMY, ROYAL. The Royal Academy of Arts in London, to give it the original title in full, was founded in 1768, ( 415 lines )

Acadian? -- ACADIAN, in geology, the name given by Sir J. W. Dawson in 1867 to a series of black, red and green shales and ( 13 lines )

Acadie? -- ACADIE, or ACADIA, a name given by the French in 1603 to that part of the mainland of North America lying between the ( 7 lines )

Acamthocephala? -- ACAMTHOCEPHALA, a compact group of cylindrical, parasitic worms, with no near allies in the animal kingdom. Its ( 214 lines )

Acanthus? -- ACANTHUS (the Greek and Latin name for the plant, connected with ake, a sharp point), a genus of plants belonging to ( 20 lines )

Acapulco -- ACAPULCO, a city and port of the state of Guerrero on the Pacific coast of Mexico, 190 m. S.S.W. of the city ( 27 lines )

Acarnania? -- ACARNANIA, a district of ancient Greece, bounded on the W. by the Ionian Sea, on the N. by the Ambracian ( 29 lines )

Acarus? -- ACARUS (from Gr. akari, a mite), a genus of Arachnids, represented by the cheese mite and other forms. ( 3 lines )

Acastus? -- ACASTUS, in Greek legend, the son of Pohas, king of Iolcus in Thessaly (Ovid, Metam. vili. 306; Apollonius Rhodius i. 224; ( 18 lines )

Acatalepsy? -- ACATALEPSY (Gr. a-, privative, and katalambanein, to seize), a term used in Scepticism to denote incomprehensibility. ( 3 lines )

Acaulescent? -- ACAULESCENT (Lat. acaulescens, becoming stemless, from a, not, and caulis, a stem), a term used of a plant apparently ( 4 lines )

[Acca Larentia]? -- ACCA LARENTIA (not Laurentia), in Roman legend, the wife of the shepherd Faustulus, who saved the lives of the ( 29 lines )

Acceleration -- ACCELERATION (from Lat. accelerare, to hasten, celer, quick), hastening or quickening; in mechanics, a term ( 6 lines )

Accent? -- ACCENT. The word "accent" has its origin in the Lat. accentus, which in its turn is a literal translation of ( 272 lines )

Acceptance? -- ACCEPTANCE (Lat. acceptare, frequentative form of accipere, to receive), generally, a receiving or acknowledgment of ( 36 lines )

Acceptilation? -- ACCEPTILATION (from Lat. acceptilatio), in Roman and Scots law, a verbal release of a verbal obligation. This formal mode ( 9 lines )

Access? -- ACCESS (Lat. accessus), approach, or the means of approaching. In law, the word is used in various connexions. ( 12 lines )

Accession? -- ACCESSION (from Lat. accedere, to go to, to approach), in law, a method of acquiring property adopted from Roman ( 28 lines )

Accessory? -- ACCESSORY, a person guilty of a felonious offence, not as principal, but by participation; as by advice, command, ( 24 lines )

[Donato Acciajuoli]? -- ACCIAJUOLI, DONATO (1428-1478), Italian scholar, was born at Florence in 1428. He was famous for his learning, especially ( 17 lines )

Accidence? -- ACCIDENCE (a mis-spelling of "accidents," from the Latin neuter plural accidentia, casual events), the term for ( 7 lines )

Accident? -- ACCIDENT (from Lat. accidere, to happen), a word of widely variant meanings, usually something fortuitous and unexpected; ( 42 lines )

Accidentalism? -- ACCIDENTALISM, a term used (1) in philosophy for any system of thought which denies the causal nexus and maintains that ( 28 lines )

Accius? -- ACCIUS, a Latin poet of the 16th century, to whom is attributed a paraphrase of Aesop's Fables, of ( 4 lines )

[Lucius Accius]? -- ACCIUS, LUCIUS, Roman tragic poet, the son of a freedman, was born at Pisaurum in Umbria, in 170 B.C. The year of ( 29 lines )

Acclamation? -- ACCLAMATION (Lat. acclamatio, a shouting at), in deliberative or electoral assemblies, a spontaneous shout of ( 22 lines )

Acclimatization? -- ACCLIMATIZATION, the process of adaptation by which animals and plants are gradually rendered capable of surviving and ( 712 lines )

Appendix -- APPENDIX The task of collecting information as to animals which have become permanently naturalized away from their native ( 320 lines )

Accolade? -- ACCOLADE (from Ital. accolata, derived from Lat. collum, the neck), a ceremony anciently used in conferring knighthood; ( 20 lines )

[Benedetto Accolti]? -- ACCOLTI, BENEDETTO (1415-1466), Italian jurist and historian, was born at Arezzo, in Tuscany, of a noble family, ( 20 lines )

[Bernardo Accolti]? -- ACCOLTI, BERNARDO (1465--1536), Italian poet, born at Arezzo, was the son of Benedetto Accolti. Known in his ( 16 lines )

[Pietro Accolti]? -- ACCOLTI, PIETRO (1455--1532), brother of the preceding, known as the cardinal of Ancona, was born in Florence on the ( 18 lines )

Accommodation? -- ACCOMMODATION (Lat. accommodare, to make fit, from ad, to, cum, with, and modus, measure), the process of fitting, adapting, ( 45 lines )

[Accommodation Bill]? -- ACCOMMODATION BILL. An accommodation bill, as its name implies, is a bill of exchange accepted and sometimes endorsed without ( 5 lines )

Accompaniment? -- ACCOMPANIMENT (i.e. that which "accompanies"), a musical term for that part of a vocal or instrumental ( 26 lines )

Accomplice? -- ACCOMPLICE (from Fr. complice, conspirator, Lat. complex, a sharer, associate, complicare, to fold together; the ( 17 lines )

[Vittoria Accoramboni]? -- ACCORAMBONI, VITTORIA (1557--1585), an Italian lady famous for her great beauty and accomplishments and for her tragic ( 47 lines )

Accord? -- ACCORD (from Fr. accorder, to agree), in law, an agreement between two parties, one of whom has a right of action against the ( 6 lines )

Accordion -- ACCORDION (Fr. aeeordeoni Ger. Handharmonica, Ziehharmonica), a small portable reed wind instrument ( 32 lines )

[Marianoelo Accorso]? -- ACCORSO (ACCURSIUS), MARIANOELO (c. 1490-1544), Italian critic, was born at Aquila, in the kingdom of ( 21 lines )

Account? -- ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, computare, to calculate), counting, reckoning, especially of ( 40 lines )

Accountant-general? -- ACCOUNTANT-GENERAL, formerly an officer in the English Court of Chancery, who received all moneys lodged in court, ( 6 lines )

Accountants? -- ACCOUNTANTS. The term "accountant" is one to which, of late years, its original meaning has been more generally ( 303 lines )

Accoutrement? -- ACCOUTREMENT (a French word, probably derived from a and coustre or coutre, an old word meaning one who has ( 6 lines )

Accra? -- ACCRA, a port on the Gulf of Guinea in 5 deg. 31' N., 0 deg. 12' W., since 1876 capital of the British Gold Coast ( 49 lines )

Accretion? -- ACCRETION (from Lat. ad, to, and crescere, to grow), an addition to that which already exists; increase in any ( 6 lines )

Accrington? -- ACCRINGTON, a market town and municipal borough in the Accrington parliamentary division of Lancashire, England, ( 31 lines )

Accumulation? -- ACCUMULATION (from Lat. accumulare, to heap up), strictly a piling-up of anything; technically, in law, the continuous ( 50 lines )

Accumulator? -- ACCUMULATOR, the term applied to a number of devices whose function is to store energy in one form or another, as, for ( 1215 lines )

[Franciscus Accursius]? -- ACCURSIUS Ital. ACCORSO), FRANCISCUS (1182-1260), Italian jurist, was born at Florence about 1182. A pupil of Azo, he ( 32 lines )

Accusation? -- ACCUSATION (Lat. accusatio, accusare, to challenge to a causa, a suit or trial at law), a legal term signifying ( 16 lines )

Accusative? -- ACCUSATIVE (Lat. accusativus, sc. casus, a translation of the Gr. aitiatike ptosis, the case concerned ( 6 lines )

Aceldama? -- ACELDAMA (according to Acts i. 19, "the field of blood"), the name given to the field purchased by Judas Iscariot ( 26 lines )

Acenaphthene? -- ACENAPHTHENE, C12H10, a hydrocarbon isolated from the fraction of coal-tar boiling at 260 deg. -270 deg. by M. P. ( 13 lines )

Acephali? -- ACEPHALI (from a'-, privative, and kefale, head), a term applied to several sects as having no head or leader; ( 16 lines )

Acephalous? -- ACEPHALOUS, headless, whether literally or metaphorically, leaderless. The word is used literally in biology; and ( 12 lines )

Acerenza? -- ACERENZA (anc. Aceruntia), a town of the province of Potenza, Italy, the seat of an archbishop, 15 1/2 m. N.E. of the ( 11 lines )

Acerose? -- ACEROSE (from Lat. acus, needle, or acer, sharp), needle-shaped, a term used in botany (since Linnaeus) as ( 5 lines )

Acerra? -- ACERRA, a town and episcopal see of Campania, Italy, in the province of Caserta, 9 m. N.E. from Naples by ( 18 lines )

Acetabulum? -- ACETABULUM, the Latin word for a vinegar cup, an ancient Roman vessel, used as a liquid measure (equal to about ( 7 lines )

[Acetic Acid]? -- ACETIC ACID (acidum aceticum), CH3.CO2H, one of the most important organic acids. It occurs naturally in the juice of ( 62 lines )

[Aceto-acetic Ester]? -- ACETO-ACETIC ESTER, C6H10O3 or CH3.CO.CH2.COOC2H5, a chemical substance discovered in 1863 by A. Geuther, who ( 94 lines )

Acetone -- ACETONE, or DIMETHYL KETONE, CH3.CO.CH3, in chemistry, the simplest representative of the aliphatic ketones. It ( 62 lines )

Acetophenone? -- ACETOPHENONE, or PHENYL-METHYL KETONE, C8H8O or C6H5CO.CH3, in chemistry, the simplest representative of ( 50 lines )

Acetylene -- ACETYLENE, klumene or ethine, a gaseous compound of carbon and hydrogen, represented by the formula C2H2. ( 639 lines )

Achaea? -- ACHAEA, a district on the northern coast of the Peloponnese, stretching from the mountain ranges of Erymanthus and ( 28 lines )

[Achaean League]? -- ACHAEAN LEAGUE, a confederation of the ancient towns of Achaea. Standing isolated on their narrow strips of plain, ( 134 lines )

Achaeans -- ACHAEANS ('Achaioi, Lat. Achivi), one of the four chief divisions of the ancient greek peoples, descended, ( 72 lines )

Achaemenes? -- ACHAEMENES (HAKHAMANI), the eponymous ancestor of the royal house of Persia, the Achaemenidae, "a clan fretre of the ( 30 lines )

[Franz Carl Achard]? -- ACHARD, FRANZ CARL (1753--1821), Prussian chemist, was born at Berlin on the 28th of April 1753, and died at Kunern, in ( 15 lines )

[Erik Acharius]? -- ACHARIUS, ERIK (1757-1819), Swedish botanist, was born On the 10th of October 1757, and in 1773 entered Upsala University, ( 9 lines )

Achates? -- ACHATES, the companion of Aeneas in Virgil's Aeneid. The expression "fidus Achates" has ( 4 lines )

Achelous? -- ACHELOUS (mod. Aspropotamo, "white river"), the largest river in Greece (130 m.). It rises in Mt. Pindus, ( 16 lines )

[Andreas Achenbach]? -- ACHENBACH, ANDREAS (1815-- ), German landscape painter, was born at Cassel in 1815. He began his art education in ( 21 lines )

[Gottfried Achenwall]? -- ACHENWALL, GOTTFRIED (1719-1772), German statisticiao, was born at Elbing, in East Prussia, in October 1719. He ( 13 lines )

Acheron? -- ACHERON, in Greek mythology, the son of Gaea or Demeter. As a punishment for supplying the Titans with water in their contest ( 7 lines )

Achiacharus? -- ACHIACHARUS, a name occurring in the book of Tobit (i. 21 f.) as that of a nephew of Tobit and an official at the ( 20 lines )

Achill? -- ACHILL ("Eagle"), the largest island off Ireland, separated from the Curraun peninsula of the west coast by the narrow ( 30 lines )

Achilles -- ACHILLES (Gr. 'Achilleus), one of the most famous of the hegendary heroes of ancient Greece and the central figure ( 218 lines )

[Achilles Tatius]? -- ACHILLES TATIUS, of Alexandria, Greek rhetorician, author of the erotic romance, the Adventures of Leucippe and ( 31 lines )

[Alessandro Achillini]? -- ACHILLINI, ALESSANDRO (1463-1512), Italian philosopher, born on the 29th of October 1463 at Bologna, was celebrated as a ( 7 lines )

Anatomy -- ANATOMY (Gr. anatome, from ana-temnein, to cut up), literally dissection or cutting asunder, a term always used ( 3578 lines )

Achimenes? -- ACHIMENES (perhaps from the Gr. achaimienis, an Indian plant used in magic), a genus of plants, natural order ( 16 lines )

Achin? -- ACHIN (Dutch Atjeh), a Dutch government forming the northern extremity of the island of Sumatra, having an ( 175 lines )

Acholi? -- ACHOLI, a negro people of the upper Nile valley, dwelling on the east bank of the Bahr-el-Jebel, about a hundred miles north ( 17 lines )

Achromatism? -- ACHROMATISM (Gr. a-, privative, chroma, colour), in optics, the property of transmitting white light, ( 6 lines )

Acid -- ACID (from the Lat. root ac-, sharp; acere, to be sour), the name loosely applied to any sour substance; ( 128 lines )

[Valens Acidalius]? -- ACIDALIUS, VALENS (1567-1595), German scholar and critic, was born at Wittstock in Brandenburg. After studying at ( 18 lines )

Acid-amides? -- ACID-AMIDES, chemical compounds which may be considered as derived from ammonia by replacement of its hydrogen with ( 56 lines )

Acinaces? -- ACINACES (from the Greek), an ancient Persian sword, short and straight, and worn, contrary to the Roman fashion, on ( 8 lines )

Acineta? -- ACINETA (so named by C. G. Ehrenberg), a genus of suctorial Infusoria characterized by the possession of a stalk and ( 6 lines )

Acinus? -- ACINUS (Lat. for a berry), a term in botany applied to such fruits as the blackberry or raspberry, composed of small ( 6 lines )

Acireale? -- ACIREALE, a town and episcopal see of the province of Catania, Sicily; from the town of the same name it is distant 9 ( 10 lines )

Acis? -- ACIS, in Greek mythology, the son of Pan (Faunus) and the nymph Syntaethis, a beautiful shepherd of Sicily, was the lover ( 9 lines )

[Francis Ackerman]? -- ACKERMAN, FRANCIS (c. 1335--1387), Flemish soldier and diplomatist, was born at Ghent, and about 1380 became prominent ( 28 lines )

[Johann Christian Gottlieb Ackermann]? -- ACKERMANN, JOHANN CHRISTIAN GOTTLIEB (1756-1801), German physician, was born at Zeillenroda, in Upper Saxony, on the ( 18 lines )

[Louise Victorine Choquet Ackermann]? -- ACKERMANN, LOUISE VICTORINE CHOQUET (1813-1890), French poet, was born in Paris on the 30th of November 1813. Educated by ( 28 lines )

[Rudolph Ackermann]? -- ACKERMANN, RUDOLPH (1764-1834), Anglo-German inventor and publisher, was born on the 20th of April 1764 at Schneeberg, in ( 24 lines )

Acknowledgment? -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT (from the old acknow, a compound of on- and know, to know by the senses, which passed through the ( 32 lines )

[Christian Henrietta Caroline Acland]? -- ACLAND, CHRISTIAN HENRIETTA CAROLINE (1750-1815), usually called Lady Harriet Acland, was born on the 3rd of January ( 23 lines )

[Henry Wentworth Acland]? -- ACLAND, SIR HENRY WENTWORTH, BART. (1815-1900), English physician and man of learning, was born near Exeter on the ( 41 lines )

Acme? -- ACME (Gr. akme, point), the highest point attainable; first used as an English word by Ben Jonson. ( 3 lines )

Acmite? -- ACMITE, or AEGIRITE, a mineral of the pyroxene (q.v.) group, which may be described as a soda-pyroxene, being ( 31 lines )

Acne? -- ACNE, a skin eruption produced by inflammation of the sebaceous glands and hair follicles, the essential point in the disease ( 50 lines )

Acoemeti? -- ACOEMETI (Gr. akoimetos, sleepless), an order of Eastern monks who celebrated the divine service without intermission ( 26 lines )

Acolyte? -- ACOLYTE (Gr.akolouthos, follower), the last of the four minor orders in the Roman Church. As an office it appears ( 113 lines )

[Michael Acominatus]? -- ACOMINATUS (AKOMINATOS), MICHAEL (c. 1140-1220), Byzantine writer and ecclesiastic, was born at Chonae ( 56 lines )

Aconcagua? -- ACONCAGUA, a small northern province of central Chile, bounded N. by Coquimbo, E. by Argentina, S. by Santiago and ( 32 lines )

[Giacomo Aconcio]? -- ACONCIO, GIACOMO (1492-1566?), pioneer of religious toleration, was born at Trent, it is said, on the 7th of September 1492. ( 44 lines )

Aconite? -- ACONITE (Aconitum), a genus of plants belonging to the natural order Ranunculaceae, the buttercup family, commonly ( 168 lines )

Acontius? -- ACONTIUS (Gr. Akontios), in Greek legend, a beautiful youth of the island of Ceos, the hero of a love-story told ( 18 lines )

Acorn -- ACORN, the fruit of the oak-tree; a word also used, by analogy with the shape, in nautical language, for a piece of ( 11 lines )

[Acorus Calamus]? -- ACORUS CALAMUS, sweet-sedge or sweet-flag, a plant of the natural order Araceae, which shares with the Cuckoo Pint ( 50 lines )

[Jose De Acosta]? -- ACOSTA, JOSE DE (1539?--1600), Spanish author, was born at Medina del Campo about the year 1539. He joined the Jesuits ( 30 lines )

[Uriel Acosta]? -- ACOSTA, URIEL (d. 1647), a Portuguese Jew of noble family, was born at Oporto towards the close of the 16th century. His ( 30 lines )

Acotyledones? -- ACOTYLEDONES, the name given by Antoine Laurent de Jussieu in 1789 to the lowest class in his Natural System of Botany, ( 11 lines )

Acoustics -- ACOUSTICS (from the Gr. akouein to hear), a title frequently given to the science of sound, that is, to the ( 33 lines )

Acqui? -- ACQUI, a city and episcopal see of Piedmont, Italy, in the province of Alessandria; from the town of that name it is 21 ( 13 lines )

Acre -- ACRE, or AQUIRY, a river of Brazil and principal tributary of the Purus, rising on the Bolivian frontier and flowing ( 23 lines )

[St Jean Dacre]? -- ACRE, Akka, or ST JEAN D'ACRE, the chief town of a governmental district of Palestine which includes Haifa, ( 121 lines )

Acre -- ACRE, or AQUIRY, a river of Brazil and principal tributary of the Purus, rising on the Bolivian frontier and flowing ( 23 lines )

Acridine? -- ACRIDINE, C13H9N, in chemistry, a heterocyclic ring compound found in crude coal-tar anthracene. It may be ( 62 lines )

[Helenius Acro]? -- ACRO (or ACRON), HELENIUS, Roman grammarian and commentator, probably flourished at the end of the 2nd century ( 12 lines )

Acrobat? -- ACROBAT (Gr. akrobatein, to walk on tiptoe), originally a rope-dancer; the word is now used generally to cover professional ( 10 lines )

Acrogenae? -- ACROGENAE ("growing at the apex"), an obsolete botanical term, originally applied to the higher Cryptogams (mosses and ( 7 lines )

Acroliths? -- ACROLITHS (Gr. akrolithoi, i.e. ending in stone), statues of a transition period in the history of plastic art, in which ( 8 lines )

Acromegaly? -- ACROMEGALY, the name given to a disease characterized by a true hypertrophy (an overgrowth involving both bony and ( 12 lines )

Acron? -- ACRON, a Greek physician, born at Agrigentum in Sicily, was contemporary with Empedocles, and must therefore have lived ( 9 lines )

Acropolis -- ACROPOLIS (Gr. akros, top, polis, city), literally the upper part of a town. For purposes of defence early ( 14 lines )

[George Acropolita]? -- ACROPOLITA (AKROPOLITES), GEORGE (1217-1282), Byzantine historian and statesman, was born at Constantinople. ( 44 lines )

Acrostic? -- ACROSTIC (Gr. akros, at the end, and stichos, line or verse), a short verse composition, so constructed that ( 88 lines )

Acroterium? -- ACROTERIUM (Gr. akroterion the summit or vertex), in architecture, a statue or ornament of any kind placed on ( 5 lines )

Act? -- ACT (Lat. actus, actum), something done, primarily a voluntary deed or performance, though any accomplished fact is often ( 133 lines )

[Acta Diurna]? -- ACTA DIURNA (Lat. acta, public acts or records; diurnius, daily, from dies), called also Acta Fopuli, Acta Publica ( 28 lines )

Actaeon -- ACTAEON, son of Aristaeus and Autonoe, a famous Theban hero and hunter, trained by the centaur Cheiron. According to the ( 13 lines )

[Acta Senatus Senatus]? -- ACTA SENATUS, or COMMENTARII SENATUS, minutes of the discussions and decisions of the Roman senate. Before the ( 15 lines )

Actinometer? -- ACTINOMETER (Gr. aktis, ray, metron, measure), an instrument for measuring the heating and chemical effects of ( 12 lines )

Actinomycosis? -- ACTINOMYCOSIS (STREPTOTRICHOSIS), a chronic infective disease occurring in both cattle and man. In both these groups ( 65 lines )

Actinozoa? -- ACTINOZOA, a term in systematic zoology, first used by H. M. D. de Blainville about 1834, to designate animals the ( 24 lines )

Action? -- ACTION, THERMOCHEMISTRY and SOLUTIONS, for the theory of the strength or avidity of acids. ( 260 lines )

Actium -- ACTIUM (mod. Punta), the ancient name of a promontory in the north of Acarnania (Greece) at the mouth of the ( 32 lines )

[Act of Parliament]? -- ACT OF PARLIAMENT. An act of parliament may be regarded as a declaration of the legislature, enforcing certain ( 52 lines )

[John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton]? -- ACTON (JOHN EMERICH EDWARD DALBERG ACTON), IST BARON (1834-1902), English historian, only son of Sir Richard Acton, ( 161 lines )

[John Francis Edward Acton]? -- ACTON, SIR JOHN FRANCIS EDWARD, BART. (1736--1811). prime minister of Naples under Ferdinand IV., was the son of Edward ( 50 lines )

Acton? -- ACTON (JOHN EMERICH EDWARD DALBERG ACTON), IST BARON (1834-1902), English historian, only son of Sir Richard Acton, ( 177 lines )

[Act On Petition]? -- ACT ON PETITION, the term for a part of the procedure in the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division, now of infrequent ( 5 lines )

Acts of the Apostles -- ACTS OF THE APOSTLES. This book of the Bible, which now stands fifth in the New Testament, was read at first as the ( 760 lines )

Actuary? -- ACTUARY. The name of actuarius, sc. scriba, in ancient Rome, was given to the clerks who recorded the Acta Publica ( 25 lines )

Acuminate? -- ACUMINATE (from Lat. acumen, point), sharpened or pointed, a word used principally in botany and ornithology, to denote the ( 8 lines )

[Christoval De Acuna]? -- ACUNA, CHRISTOVAL DE (1597--c.1676), Spanish missionary and explorer, was born at Burgos in 1597. He was admitted ( 20 lines )

Acupressure? -- ACUPRESSURE (from Lat. acus, a needle, and premere, to press), the name given to a method of restraining haemorrhage, ( 6 lines )

Acupuncture -- ACUPUNCTURE (from Lat. acus, a needle, and pungere, to prick), a form of surgical operation, performed ( 6 lines )

Adabazar? -- ADABAZAR, an important commercial town in the Khoja Ili sanjak of Asia Minor, situated on the old military road from ( 12 lines )

Adad? -- ADAD, the name of the storm-god in the Babylonian-Assyrian pantheon, who is also known as Ramman ("the thunderer"). The ( 57 lines )

Adagio? -- ADAGIO (Ital. ad agio, at ease), a term in music to indicate slow time; also a slow movement in a symphony, sonata, etc., or an ( 4 lines )

[John Adair]? -- ADAIR, JOHN (d. 1722), Scottish surveyor and map-maker of the 17th century. Nothing is known of his parentage, ( 21 lines )

Adalberon? -- ADALBERON, or ASCELIN (d. 1030 or 1031), French bishop and poet, studied at Reims and became bishop of Laon in 977. When ( 26 lines )

Adalbert? -- ADALBERT, or ADELBERT (c. 1000-1072), German archbishop, the most famous ecclesiastic of the 11th century, was the ( 50 lines )

Adalia? -- ADALIA (med. Antaliyah; the crusaders' Satalia), the ancient Attalia (q.v.), the largest seaport on the south ( 39 lines )

Adam -- ADAM, the conventional name of the first created man according to the Bible.

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Adam of Bremen -- ADAM OF BREMEN, historian and geographer, was probably born in Upper Saxony (at Meissen, according to one tradition) before ( 59 lines )

[Adam De Le Hale]? -- ADAM (or ADAN) DE LE HALE (died c. 1288), French trouvere, was born at Arras. His patronymic is generally ( 58 lines )

[Alexander Adam]? -- ADAM, ALEXANDER (1741-1809), Scottish writer on Roman antiquities, was born on the 24th of June 1741, near Forres, in ( 39 lines )

[Frederick Adam]? -- ADAM, SIR FREDERICK (1781--1853), British general, was the son of the Rt. Hon. W. Adam of Blair-Adam, lord-lieutenant of ( 27 lines )

[Juliette Adam]? -- ADAM, JULIETTE (1836-- ), Freneh writer, known also by her maiden name of Juliette Lamber, was born at Verberie (Oise) ( 28 lines )

[Lambert Sigisbert Adam]? -- ADAM, LAMBERT SIGISBERT (1700-1759), French sculptor, known as Adam l'aine, was born in Nancy, son of Jacob Sigisbert ( 47 lines )

[Melchior Adam]? -- ADAM, MELCHIOR (d. 1622), German divine and biographer, was born at Grotkau in Silesia after 1550, and educated in the ( 12 lines )

[Paul Adam]? -- ADAM, PAUL (1862- ), French novelist, was born in Paris on the 7th of December 1862. He was prosecuted for his first ( 15 lines )

[Robert Adam]? -- ADAM, ROBERT (1728--1792), British architect, the second son of William Adam of Maryburgh, in Fife, and the most ( 166 lines )

[William Adam]? -- ADAM, WILLIAM (1751--1839), British lawyer and politician, eldest son of John Adam of Blair-Adam, Kinross-shire, and ( 24 lines )

Adamant? -- ADAMANT (from Gr. adamas, untameable), the modern diamond (q.v.), but also a name given to any very hard substance. The ( 9 lines )

Adamawa? -- ADAMAWA, a country of West Africa, which lies roughly between 6 deg. and 11 deg. N., and 11 deg. and 15 deg. E., about midway ( 60 lines )

Adamites? -- ADAMITES, or ADAMIANS, a sect of heretics that flourished in North Africa in the 2nd and 3rd centuries. Basing itself ( 12 lines )

Adamnan -- ADAMNAN, or ADOMNAN (c. 624-704), Irish saint and historian, was born at Raphoe, Donegal, Ireland, about the ( 28 lines )

[Andrew Leith Adams]? -- ADAMS, ANDREW LEITH (1827-1882), Scottish naturalist and palaeontologist, the second son of Francis Adams of Banchory, ( 19 lines )

[Charles Francis Adams]? -- ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS (1807-1886), American diplomatist, son of John Quincy Adams, and grandson of John Adams, was ( 81 lines )

[Henry Adams]? -- ADAMS, HENRY (1838-- ), American historian, son of Charles Francis Adams and grandson of John Quincy Adams, was born ( 52 lines )

[Henry Carter Adams]? -- ADAMS, HENRY CARTER (1852-- ), American economist, was born at Davenport, Iowa, on the 31st of December ( 14 lines )

[Herbert Adams]? -- ADAMS, HERBERT (1858- ), American sculptor, was born at West Concord, Vermont, on the 28th of January 1858. He was educated ( 23 lines )

[Herbert Baxter Adams]? -- ADAMS, HERBERT BAXTER (1850-1901), American historian and educationalist, was born at Shutesbury (near Amherst), ( 40 lines )

John Adams -- ADAMS, JOHN (1735-1826), second president of the United States of America, was born on the 30th of October 1735 in ( 383 lines )

[John Couch Adams]? -- ADAMS, JOHN COUCH (1819--1892), British astronomer, was born at Lidcot farmhouse, Laneast, Cornwall, on the 5th of June ( 189 lines )

John Quincy Adams -- ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY (1767-1848), eldest son of President John Adams, sixth president of the United States, was born ( 195 lines )

[Samuel Adams]? -- ADAMS, SAMUEL (1722--1803), American statesman, was born at Boston, Massachusetts, on the 27th of September ( 121 lines )

[Thomas Adams]? -- ADAMS, THOMAS (d. c. 1655), English divine, was, in 1612, "a preacher of the gospel at Willington," in Bedfordshire, ( 26 lines )

[William Adams]? -- ADAMS, WILLIAM (d. 1620), English navigator, was born at Gillingham, near Chatham, England. When twelve years ( 59 lines )

Adams? -- ADAMS, ANDREW LEITH (1827-1882), Scottish naturalist and palaeontologist, the second son of Francis Adams of Banchory, ( 661 lines )

[Adams Apple]? -- ADAM'S APPLE, the movable projection, more prominent in males than females, formed in the front part of the throat by ( 7 lines )

[Adams Bridge]? -- ADAM'S BRIDGE, or RAMA'S BRIDGE, a chain of sandbanks extending from the island of Manaar, near the N.W. coast of ( 20 lines )

[Adam Scotus]? -- ADAM SCOTUS (d. 1180), theological writer, sometimes called Adam Anglicus or Anglo-Scotus, was born in the south of ( 11 lines )

[Patrick Adamson]? -- ADAMSON, PATRICK (1537--1592), Scottish divine, archbishop of St Andrews, was born at Perth. He studied philosophy, and ( 57 lines )

[Robert Adamson]? -- ADAMSON, ROBERT (1852-1902), Scottish philosopher, was born in Edinburgh on the 19th of January 1852. His father was a ( 88 lines )

Adams Peak -- ADAM'S PEAK, a mountain in Ceylon, about 45 miles E. from Colombo, in N. lat. 6 deg. 55', E. long. 80 deg. 30'. It rises ( 16 lines )

Adana? -- ADANA. (1) A vilayet in the S.E. of Asia Minor, which includes the ancient Cilicia. The mountain districts are rich ( 37 lines )

[Michel Adanson]? -- ADANSON, MICHEL (1727-1806), French naturalist, of Scottish descent, was born on the 7th of April 1727, at Aix, in ( 70 lines )

Adaptation? -- ADAPTATION (from Lat. adaptare, to fit to), a process of fitting, or modifying, a thing to other uses, and so altering ( 24 lines )

Adda? -- ADDA (anc. Addua), a river of North Italy. Its true source is in some small lakes near the head of the Fraele ( 17 lines )

[Jane Addams]? -- ADDAMS, JANE (1860- ), American sociologist, was born at Cedarville, Illinois, on the 6th of September 1860. After ( 18 lines )

Addax? -- ADDAX, a genus of antelopes, with one species (A. nasomaculatus) from North Africa and Arabia. It is a little ( 10 lines )

Adder -- ADDER, a name for the common viper ( Vipera cevus), ranging from Wales to Saghalien island, and from Caithness to the north ( 13 lines )

[Joseph Addison]? -- ADDISON, JOSEPH (1672-1719), English essayist, poet and man of letters, eldest son of Lancelot Addison, later dean of ( 511 lines )

[Addisons Disease]? -- ADDISON'S DISEASE, a constitutional affection manifesting itself in an exaggeration of the normal pigment of the skin, ( 125 lines )

Adelaer? -- ADELAER, or ADELER (Norwegian for "eagle"), the surname of honour given on his ennoblement to Kurt Sivertsen ( 26 lines )

Adelaide -- ADELAIDE (Ger. Adelheid) (931--999), queen of Italy and empress, was the daughter of Rudolph II. of Burgundy and of ( 87 lines )

Adelard? -- ADELARD (or AETHELARD) of Bath (12th century), English scholastic philosopher, and one of the greatest savants of ( 56 lines )

Adelsberg? -- ADELSBERG (Slovene Postojina), a market-town in Carniola, Austria, 30 m. S.S.W. of Laibach by rail, Pop. (1900) 3636, ( 30 lines )

[Johann Christoph Adelung]? -- ADELUNG, JOHANN CHRISTOPH (1732-1806), German grammarian and philologist, was born at Spantekow, in Pomerania, on the 8th of ( 38 lines )

Ademption? -- ADEMPTION (Lat. ademptio, from adimere, a taking away), in law, a revocation of a grant or bequest (see LEGACY.) ( 3 lines )

Aden -- ADEN, a seaport and territory in Arabia, politically part of British India, under the governor of Bombay. The ( 96 lines )

[Adenes Le Roi]? -- ADENES (ADENEZ or ADANS), surnamed LE ROI, French trouvere, was born in Brabant about 1240. He owed his ( 40 lines )

Adenine? -- ADENINE, or 6-AMINO-PURIN, C5H5N5, in chemistry, a basic substance which has been obtained as a decomposition ( 20 lines )

[Adenoids Growths]? -- ADENOIDS, or ADENOID GROWTHS (from Gr. adenoeides, glandular), masses of soft, spongy tissue between the back of the nose ( 55 lines )

Adept? -- ADEPT (if used as a substantive pronounced adept, if as an adjective adept; from Lat. adeptus, one who has ( 8 lines )

Aderno? -- ADERNO, a town of the province of Catania, Sicily, 22 m. N.W. of the town of that name. Pop. (1901) 25,859. It ( 18 lines )

Adevism? -- ADEVISM, a term introduced by Max Muller to imply the denial of gods (Sans. deva), on the analogy of Atheism, ( 6 lines )

[Adhemar De Chabannes]? -- ADHEMAR DE CHABANNES (c. 988-c. 1030), medieval historian, was born about 988 at Chabannes, a village in ( 28 lines )

[Adhemar De Monteil]? -- ADHEMAR (ADEMAR, AIMAR, AELARZ) DE MONTEIL (d. 1098), one of the principal personages of the first crusade, was bishop ( 13 lines )

Adhesion? -- ADHESION (from Lat. adhaerere, to adhere), the process of adhering or clinging to anything. In a figurative sense, ( 11 lines )

Adiaphorists? -- ADIAPHORISTS (Gr. adiaforos, indifferent). The Adiaphorist controversy among Lutherans was an issue of the provisional ( 38 lines )

Adige? -- ADIGE (Ger. Etsch, anc. Athesis), a considerable river in North Italy. The true source of the Adige is in some ( 30 lines )

Adipocere? -- ADIPOCERE (from the Lat. adeps, fat, and cera, wax), a substance into which animal matter is sometimes converted, and ( 18 lines )

Adirondacks -- ADIRONDACKS, a group of mountains in north-eastern New York, U.S.A., in Clinton, Essex, Franklin and Hamilton counties, ( 98 lines )

[Adis Ababa]? -- ADIS ABABA ("the new flower"), the capital of Abyssinia and of the kingdom of Shoa, in 9 deg. 1' N., 38 deg. 56' E., 220 ( 21 lines )

Adjective? -- ADJECTIVE (from the Lat. adjectivus, added), a word used chiefly in its grammatical sense of limiting or defining the ( 10 lines )

Adjournment? -- ADJOURNMENT (through the French from the Late Lat. adjurnare, to put off until or summon for another day), ( 8 lines )

Adjudication? -- ADJUDICATION (Lat. adjudicatio; adjudicare, to award), generally, a trying or determining of a case by the exercise ( 23 lines )

Adjunct? -- ADJUNCT (from Lat. ad, to, and jungere, to join), that which is joined on to another, not an essential part, and inferior to it ( 8 lines )

Adjustment? -- ADJUSTMENT (from late Lat. ad-juxtare, derived from juxta. near, but early confounded with a supposed derivation ( 18 lines )

Adjutage? -- ADJUTAGE (from Fr. ajutage, from ajouter, to join on; an older English form was "adjustage"), a mouthpiece ( 5 lines )

Adjutant? -- ADJUTANT (from Lat. adjutare, to aid), a helper or junior in command, one who assists his superior, especially an officer ( 17 lines )

Adjutant-general? -- ADJUTANT-GENERAL, an army official, originally (as indicated by the word) the chief assistant (Lat. adjuvare) staff-officer ( 23 lines )

[Felix Adler]? -- ADLER, FELIX (1851- ), American educationalist, was born at Alzey, Germany, on the 13th of August 1851. His father, ( 24 lines )

Admetus? -- ADMETUS, in Greek legend, son of Pheres, king of Pherae in Thessaly. By the aid of Apollo, who served him as a slave-- ( 17 lines )

Administration? -- ADMINISTRATION (Lat. administrare, to serve), the performance or management of affairs, a term specifically used in law for ( 57 lines )

Administrator? -- ADMINISTRATOR, in English law, the person to whom the Probate Division of the High Court of Justice (formerly the ( 12 lines )

Admiral? -- ADMIRAL, the title of the general officer who commands a fleet, or subdivision of a fleet. The origin of the word is ( 43 lines )

[Admiralty Administration]? -- ADMIRALTY ADMINISTRATION; and ADMIRALTY JURISDICTION.) The title of admiral is still borne as an hereditary honour ( 30 lines )

[High Court of Admiralty]? -- ADMIRALTY, HIGH COURT OF. The High Court of Admiralty of England was the court of the deputy or lieutenant of the ( 380 lines )

[Admiralty Islands]? -- ADMIRALTY ISLANDS, a group of about forty islands lying north of New Guinea, between 1 deg. and 3 deg. S., and 146 deg. and 148 deg. ( 14 lines )

[Admiralty Jurisdiction]? -- ADMIRALTY JURISDICTION. The courts by which, as far as we know, admiralty jurisdiction in civil matters was first ( 446 lines )

Admission? -- ADMISSION, in law, a statement made out of the witness-box by a party to legal proceedings, whether civil or criminal, ( 5 lines )

Ado? -- ADO (d. 874), archbishop of Vienne in Lotharingia, belonged to a famous Frankish house, and spent much of his middle life in ( 31 lines )

Adobe -- ADOBE (pronounced a-do-be; also corrupted to dobie; from the Span. adobar, to plaster, traceable through ( 11 lines )

Adolescence? -- ADOLESCENCE (Lat. adolescentia, from adolescere, to grow up, past part. adultus, grown up, Eng. "adult"), the ( 100 lines )

[Adolph of Nassau]? -- ADOLPH OF NASSAU (c. 1255-.1298), German king, son of Walram, count of Nassau. He appears to have received a good ( 40 lines )

[John Leycester Adolphus]? -- ADOLPHUS, JOHN LEYCESTER (1795-1862), English lawyer and author, was the son of John Adolphus (1768--1845), a well-known ( 21 lines )

[Adolphus Frederick]? -- ADOLPHUS FREDERICK (1710-1771), king of Sweden, was born at Gottorp on the 14th of May 1710. His father was Christian ( 29 lines )

Adoni? -- ADONI, a town of British India, in the Bellary district of Madras, 307 m. from Madras by rail. It has manufactures of ( 7 lines )

Adonijah? -- ADONIJAH (Heb. Adoniyyah or Adoniyyahu, "Yah is Lord"), a name borne by several persons in the Old ( 16 lines )

Adonis? -- ADONIS, in classical mythology, a youth of remarkable beauty, the favourite of Aphrodite. According to the story ( 97 lines )

Adoptianism? -- ADOPTIANISM. As the theological doctrine of the Logos which bulks so largely in the writings of the apologists of the ( 96 lines )

Adoption? -- ADOPTION (Lat. adoptio, for adoptatio, from adoptare, to choose for oneself), the act by which the relations of ( 109 lines )

Adoration? -- ADORATION (Lat. ad, to, and os, mouth; i.e. "carrying to one's mouth"), primarily an act of homage or worship, ( 38 lines )

Adorf? -- ADORF, a town of Germany, in the kingdom of Saxony, 3 m. from the Bohemian frontier, at an elevation of 1400 ft. above the ( 7 lines )

Adour? -- ADOUR (anc. Aturrus or Adurus, from Celtic dour, water), a river of south-west France, rising in the department ( 39 lines )

Adowa? -- ADOWA (properly ADUA), the capital of Tigre, northern Abyssinia, 145 m. N.E. of Gondar and 17 m. E. by N. of Axum, ( 20 lines )

Adra? -- ADRA (anc. Abdera), a seaport of southern Spain, in the province of Almeria; at the mouth of the Rio Grande de Adra, and ( 8 lines )

Adrar? -- ADRAR (Berber for "uplands"), the name of various districts of the Saharan desert, Northern Africa. Adrar ( 31 lines )

Adrastus? -- ADRASTUS, in Greek legend, was the son of Talaus, king of Argos, and Lysianassa, daughter of Polybus, king of Sicyon. ( 32 lines )

Adria? -- ADRIA (anc. Atria; the form Adria or Hadria is less correct: Hatria was a town in Picenum, the modern Atri), a ( 26 lines )

Adrian -- ADRIAN, or HADRIAN (Lat. Hadrianus), the name of six popes. ADRIAN I., pope from 772 to 705, was the son of ( 32 lines )

Adrian II -- ADRIAN II., pope from 867 to 872, was a member of a noble Roman family, and became pope in 867, at an advanced ( 26 lines )

Adrian III -- ADRIAN III., pope, was born at Rome. He succeeded Martin II. in 884, and died in 885, on a journey to Worms. (L. D.*) ( 3 lines )

Adrian IV -- ADRIAN IV. (Nicholas Breakspear), pope from 1154 to 1159, the only Englishman who has occupied the papal chair, ( 67 lines )

Adrian -- ADRIAN, or HADRIAN (Lat. Hadrianus), the name of six popes. ADRIAN I., pope from 772 to 705, was the son of ( 32 lines )

Adrian VI -- ADRIAN VI. (Adrian Dedel, not Boyens, probably not Rodenburgh, 1459-1523), pope from 1522 to 1523, was born at Utrecht in ( 71 lines )

Saint Adrian -- ADRIAN, SAINT, one of the praetorian guards of the emperor Galerius Maximian, who, becoming a convert to Christianity, was ( 13 lines )

Adrian -- ADRIAN, or HADRIAN (Lat. Hadrianus), the name of six popes. ADRIAN I., pope from 772 to 705, was the son of ( 32 lines )

[Giovanni Battista Adriani]? -- ADRIANI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA (1513-1579), Italian historian, was born of a patrician family of Florence, and was secretary ( 18 lines )

Adrianople? -- ADRIANOPLE, a vilayet of European Turkey, corresponding with part of the ancient Thrace, and bounded on the N. by Bulgaria ( 43 lines )

Adriatic Sea -- ADRIATIC SEA (ancient Adria or Hadria), an arm of the Mediterranean Sea separating Italy from the Austro-Hungarian, ( 64 lines )

Adullam? -- ADULLAM, a Canaanitish town in the territory of the tribe of Judah, perhaps the modern Aid-el-Ma, 7 m. N.E. of ( 25 lines )

Adulteration? -- ADULTERATION (from Lat. adulterare, to defile or falsify), the act of debasing a commercial commodity with the object ( 2406 lines )

Adultery? -- ADULTERY (from Lat. adultorium), the sexual intercourse of a married person with another than the offender's husband or ( 50 lines )

Advancement? -- ADVANCEMENT, a term technically used in English law for a sum of money or other benefit, given by a father during his ( 31 lines )

Advantage? -- ADVANTAGE, that which gives gain or helps forward in any way. The Fr. avant (before) shows the origin and meaning of ( 12 lines )

Advent? -- ADVENT (Lat. Adventus, sc. Redemptoris, "the coming of the Saviour"), a holy season of the Christian church, the ( 42 lines )

[Second Adventists]? -- ADVENTISTS, SECOND, members of religious bodies whose distinctive feature is a belief in the imminent physical ( 11 lines )

Adventitious? -- ADVENTITIOUS (from Lat. adventicius, coming from abroad), a quality from outside, in no sense part of the ( 10 lines )

Adventure -- ADVENTURE (from Lat. res adventura, a thing about to happen), chance, and especially chance of danger; so a hazardous ( 14 lines )

Advertisement? -- ADVERTISEMENT, or ADVERTISING (Fr. avertissement, warning, or notice), the process of obtaining and particularly ( 861 lines )

Advice? -- ADVICE (Fr. avis, from Lat. ad, to, and visum, viewed), counsel given after consideration, or information ( 7 lines )

Advocate? -- ADVOCATE (Lat. advocatus, from advocare, to summon, especially in law to call in the aid of a counsel or witness, ( 184 lines )

[Faculty of Advocates]? -- ADVOCATES, FACULTY OF, the collective term by which what in England are called barristers are known in Scotland. They ( 41 lines )

[Advocatus Diaboli]? -- ADVOCATUS DIABOLI, devil's advocate, the name popularly given to the promoter of the Faith (promotor fidei), and ( 16 lines )

Advowson? -- ADVOWSON, or @ADVOWZEN (through O. Fr. advouson, from Lat. advocatio, a summons to), the right of presentation ( 177 lines )

[John Miller Adye]? -- ADYE, SIR JOHN MILLER (1819-1900), British general, son of Major James P. Adye, was born at Sevenoaks, Kent, on the 1st ( 26 lines )

Adytum? -- ADYTUM, the Latinized form of aduton (not to be entered), the innermost sanctuary in ancient temples, access to which ( 5 lines )

Adze? -- ADZE (from the Old Eng. adesa, of which the origin is unknown), a tool used for cutting and planing. It is somewhat ( 7 lines )

Aeacus -- AEACUS, in Greek legend, ancestor of the Aeacidae, was the son of Zeus and Aegina, daughter of the river-god Asopus. ( 16 lines )

Aeclanum -- AECLANUM, an ancient town of Samnium, Italy, 15 m. E.S.E. of Beneventum, on the Via Appia (near the modern ( 25 lines )

Aedesius -- AEDESIUS (d. A.D. 355), Neoplatonist philosopher, was born of a noble Cappadocian family. He migrated to Syria, ( 11 lines )

Aedicula -- AEDICULA (diminutive of Lat. aedis or aedes, a temple or house), a small house or temple,--a household shrine ( 4 lines )

Aedile -- AEDILE (Lat. aedilis), in Roman antiquities, the name of certain Roman magistrates, probably derived from aedis (a ( 55 lines )

Aedui -- AEDUI, HAEDUI or HEDUI (Gr. Aidouoi), a Gallic people of Gallia Lugdunensis, who inhabited the country between the ( 40 lines )

[Aegadian Isuands]? -- AEGADIAN ISUANDS (Ital. Isole Egati; anc. Aegales Insulae), a group of small mountainous islands off the western coast of ( 11 lines )

[Aegean Civilization]? -- AEGEAN CIVILIZATION, the general term for the prehistoric civilization, previously called "Mycenaean" because its existence ( 903 lines )

Aegean Sea -- AEGEAN SEA, a part of the Mediterranean Sea, being the archipelago between Greece on the west and Asia Minor on the east, ( 61 lines )

Aegeus -- AEGEUS, in Greek legend, son of Pandion and grandson of Cecrops, was king of Athens and the father of Theseus. He was deposed ( 14 lines )

Aegina -- AEGINA (EGINA or ENGIA), an island of Greece in the Saronic Gulf, 20 m. from the Peiraeus Tradition derives the name from ( 81 lines )

Paulus Aegineta -- AEGINETA, PAULUS, a celebrated surgeon of the island of Aegina, whence he derived his name. According to Le Clerc's ( 13 lines )

Aegis -- AEGIS (Gr. Aigis), in Homer, the shield or buckler of Zeus, fashioned for him by Hephaestus, furnished with tassels ( 35 lines )

Aegisthus -- AEGISTHUS, in Greek legend, was the son of Thyestes by his Own daughter Pelopia. Having been exposed by his mother to conceal her ( 14 lines )

Aegospotami -- AEGOSPOTAMI (i.e. "Goat Streams"), a small creek issuing into the Hellespont, N.E. of Sestos, the scene of the decisive ( 7 lines )

Aefric -- AEFRIC, called the "Grammarian" (c. 955-1020?), English abbot and author, was born about 955. He was educated in the ( 10 lines )

Aelia Capitolina -- AELIA CAPITOLINA, the city built by the emperor Hadrian, A.D. 131, and occupied by a Roman colony, on the site of ( 7 lines )

Aelianus Tacticus -- AELIAN (AELIANUS TACTICUS), Greek military writer of the 2nd century A.D., resident at Rome. He is sometimes ( 69 lines )

Claudius Aelianus -- AELIAN (CLAUDIUS AELIANUS), Roman author and teacher of rhetoric, born at Praeneste, flourished under Septimius Severus ( 20 lines )

Aelred? -- AELRED, AILRED, ETHELRED (1100-1166), English theologian, historical writer and abbot of Rievaulx, was born at Hexham ( 7 lines )

[Aemilia Via Way]? -- AEMILIA VIA, or AEMILIAN WAY. (1) A highroad of Italy, constructed in 187 B.C. by the consul M. Aemilius Lepidus, ( 38 lines )

[Paulus Aemilius]? -- AEMILIUS, PAULUS (PAOLO EMILIO ) (d. 1529), Italian historian, was born at Verona. He obtained such reputation ( 10 lines )

Aeneas -- AENEAS, the famous Trojan hero, son of Anchises and Aphrodite, one of the most important figures in Greek and Roman legendary ( 68 lines )

[Aeneas Tacticus]? -- AENEAS TACTICUS (4th century B.C.), one of the earliest Greek writers on the art of war. According to Aelianus ( 28 lines )

Aenesidemus? -- AENESIDEMUS, Greek philosopher, was born at Cnossus in Crete and taught at Alexandria, probably during the first century ( 71 lines )

Arcesilaus? -- ARCESILAUS. Of the Porroneioi logoi nothing remains; we have, however, an analysis in the Myriobiblion of Photius. ( 3 lines )

[Aeolian Harp]? -- AEOLIAN HARP (Fr. harpe eolienne; Ger. Aolsharfe, Windharfe; Ital. arpa d'Eolo), a stringed musical instrument, whose ( 46 lines )

Aeolis? -- AEOLIS (AEOLIA), an ancient district of Asia Minor, colonized at a very early date by Aeolian Greeks. The name was ( 8 lines )

Aeolus -- AEOLUS, in Greek mythology, according to Homer the son of Hippotes, god and father of the winds, and ruler of the island of ( 16 lines )

Aeon -- AEON, a term often used in Greek (aion) to denote an indefinite or infinite duration of time; and hence, by ( 7 lines )

[Franz Ulrich Theodor Aepinus]? -- AEPINUS, FRANZ ULRICH THEODOR (1724-1802), German natural philosopher, was born at Rostock in Saxony on the 13th of December ( 31 lines )

Aequi? -- AEQUI, an ancient people of Italy, whose name occurs constantly in Livy,s first decade as hostile to Rome in the ( 59 lines )

Aerarii? -- AERARII (from Lat. aes, in its subsidiary sense of "polltax"), originally a class of Roman citizens not included ( 45 lines )

Aerarium? -- AERARIUM (from Lat. aes, in its derived sense of "money") the name (in full, aerarium stabulum, treasure-house) given ( 81 lines )

[Aerated Waters]? -- AERATED WATERS. Waters charged with a larger proportion of carbon dioxide than they will dissolve at ordinary atmospheric ( 68 lines )

Aeronautics -- AERONAUTICS, the art of "navigating" the "air." It is divisible into two main branches--aerostation, dealing properly ( 267 lines )

Aerostation? -- AEROSTATION.---Possibly the flying dove of Archytas of Tarentum is the earliest suggestion of true aerostation. According to ( 1254 lines )

Aerotherapeutics? -- AEROTHERAPEUTICS, the treatment of disease by atmospheric air: a term which of late has come to be used somewhat more ( 99 lines )

[Pieter Aertszen]? -- AERTSZEN (or AARTSEN), PIETER (1507-1573), called "Long Peter" on account of his height, Dutch historical ( 14 lines )

Aeschines? -- AESCHINES (389-314 B.C.), Greek statesman and orator, was born at Athens. The statements as to his parentage and early ( 77 lines )

[Ancient Authorities]? -- ANCIENT AUTHORITIES.---Demosthenes, De Corona and De Falsa Legatione; Aeschines, De Falsa Legatione and ( 15 lines )

Aeschines? -- AESCHINES (389-314 B.C.), Greek statesman and orator, was born at Athens. The statements as to his parentage and early ( 77 lines )

Aeschylus -- AESCHYLUS (525-456 B.C.), Greek poet, the first of the only three Attic Tragedians of whose work entire plays survive, ( 595 lines )

Aesculapius? -- AESCULAPIUS (Gr. `Asklepios), the legendary Greek god of medicine, the son of Apollo and the nymph Coronis. Tricca in ( 49 lines )

Aesernia? -- AESERNIA (mod. Isernia), a Samnite town on the road from Beneventum to Corfinium, 58 m. to the north-east of the former, ( 13 lines )

Aesop -- AESOP (Gr. Aisopos), famous for his Fables, is supposed to have lived from about 620 to 560 B.C. The place of ( 94 lines )

Aesopus? -- AESOPUS, a Greek historian who wrote a history of Alexander the Great, a Latin translation of which, ( 4 lines )

[Clodius Aesopus]? -- AESOPUS, CLODIUS, the most eminent Roman tragedian, flourished during the time of Cicero, but the dates of his ( 24 lines )

Aesthetics -- AESTHETICS, a branch of study variously defined as the philosophy or science of the beautiful, of taste or of the fine arts. ( 2303 lines )

Aestivation? -- AESTIVATION (from Lat. aestivare, to spend the aestas, or summer; the word is sometimes spelled "estivation"), literally ( 10 lines )

Aethelbald? -- AETHELBALD, king of Mercia, succeeded Ceolred A.D. 716. According to Felix, Life of St Guthlac, he visited the saint at ( 28 lines )

Aethelberht? -- AETHELBERHT, king of Kent, son of Eormenric, probably came to the throne in A.D. 560. The first recorded event of his ( 18 lines )

Aethelflaed? -- AETHELFLAED (ETHELFLEDA), the "Lady of the Mercians," the eldest child of Alfred the Great, was educated with ( 28 lines )

Aethelfrith? -- AETHELFRITH, king of Northumbria, is said to have come to the throne in A.D. 593, being the son of AEthelric (probably ( 15 lines )

Aetheling? -- AETHELING, an Anglo-Saxon word compounded of aethele, or ethel, meaning noble, and ing, belonging to, and akin ( 11 lines )

Aethelnoth? -- AETHELNOTH (d. 1038), archbishop of Canterbury, known also as EGELNODUS or EDNODUS, was a son of the ealdorman ( 2 lines )

Aethelred? -- AETHELRED, king of Mercia, succeeded his brother Wulfhere in A.D. 675. In 676 he ravaged Kent with fire and sword, ( 93 lines )

[Aethelred I]? -- AETHELRED I., king of Wessex and Kent (866-871), was the fourth son of AEthelwulf of Wessex, and should, by his father's ( 3 lines )

[Aethelred II]? -- AETHELRED II. (or ETHELRED) (c. 968--1016), king of the English (surnamed THE UNREADY, i.e. without rede or ( 85 lines )

Aethelstan? -- AETHELSTAN (c. 894-940), Saxon king, was the son (probably illegitimate) of Edward the elder. He had been the favourite ( 8 lines )

Aethelweard? -- AETHELWEARD (ETHELWARD.) Anglo-Saxon historian, was the great-grandson of AEthelred, the brother of Alfred and ( 18 lines )

Aethelwulf? -- AETHELWULF, king of the West Saxons, succeeded his father Ecgberht in A.D. 839. It is recorded in the Saxon Chronicle ( 5 lines )

Aether -- AETHER, or ETHER (Gr. aither, probably from aitho, burn, though Plato in his Cratylus (41O B) derives the ( 904 lines )

[Aethicus Ister]? -- AETHICUS (=ETHICUS) ISTER, "the philosopher of Istria," the supposed but unknown author of a description ( 20 lines )

Aetiology -- AETIOLOGY, or ETIOLOGY (from Gr. aitia. cause, and logia, discourse), strictly, the science or philosophy of ( 14 lines )

Aetion? -- AETION, or EETION, a Greek painter, mentioned by Cicero, Pliny and Lucian. His most noted work, described in detail by ( 12 lines )

Aetius? -- AETIUS (fl. 350), surnamed "the Atheist," founder of an extreme sect of Arians, was a native of Cocle-Syria. After ( 68 lines )

Aetolia? -- AETOLIA, a district of northern Greece, bounded on the S. by the Corinthian Gulf, on the W. by the river Achelous, on ( 144 lines )

Afars? -- AFARS (DANAHIL), a tribe of African "Arabs" of Hamitic stock. They occupy the arid coast-lands between Abyssinia ( 30 lines )

Domitius Afer -- AFER, DOMITIUS, a Roman orator and advocate, born at Nemausus (Nimes) in Gallia Narbonensis, flourished in ( 18 lines )

Affection -- AFFECTION (Lat. ad, and facere, to do something to, sc. a person), literally, a mental state resulting generally ( 80 lines )

Affidavit -- AFFIDAVIT (Med. Lat. for "he has declared upon oath," from affidare, fides, faith), a written statement sworn ( 75 lines )

Affiliation -- AFFILIATION (from Lat. ad-filiare, to adopt as a son), in law, the procedure by which the paternity of a bastard child ( 71 lines )

Affinity -- AFFINITY (Lat. affinitas, relationship by marriage, from affinis, bordering on, related to; finis, border, boundary), ( 39 lines )

[Chemical Affinity]? -- AFFINITY, CHEMICAL, the property or relation in virtue of which dissimilar substances are capable of entering into chemical combination ( 4 lines )

Affirmation -- AFFIRMATION (from Lat. affirmare, to assert), the declaration that something is true; in logic, a positive judgment, ( 6 lines )

Affray -- AFFRAY, in law, the fighting of two or more persons in a public place to the terror (a l' effroi ) of the ( 24 lines )

Denis Auguste Affre -- AFFRE, DENIS AUGUSTE (1793--1848), archbishop of Paris, was born at St Rome, in the department of Tarn, on the 27th ( 31 lines )

Affreightment -- AFFREIGHTMENT (from "freight," q.v.). Contract of Affreightment is the expression usually employed to describe ( 757 lines )

Afghanistan -- AFGHANISTAN, a country of Central Asia. Estimated area 245,000 sq. m. (including Badakshan and Kafiristan). Pop. about ( 2010 lines )

Afghan Turkestan -- AFGHAN TURKESTAN, the most northern province of Afghanistan. It is bounded on the E. by Badakshan, on the N. by the ( 62 lines )

Afium-kara-hissar? -- AFIUM-KARA-HISSAR (afium, opium), the popular name of Kara-hissar Sahib, a city of Asiatic Turkey, in the vilayet ( 32 lines )

[Lucius Afranius]? -- AFRANIUS, LUCIUS, Roman general, lived in the times of the Sertorian (79-72), third Mithradatic (74-61) and Civil ( 27 lines )

Africa -- AFRICA, the name of a continent representing the largest of the three great southward projections from the main mass of ( 6178 lines )

[Roman Africa]? -- AFRICA, ROMAN. The Romans gave the name of Africa to that part of the world which the Greeks called Libya ( 361 lines )

African Lily -- AFRICAN LILY (Agapanthus umbellatus), a member of the natural order Liliaceae, a native of the Cape of Good ( 20 lines )

Sextus Julius Africanus -- AFRICANUS, SEXTUS JULIUS, a Christian traveller and historian of the 3rd century, was probably born in Libya, and may have ( 37 lines )

Afridi? -- AFRIDI, a Pathan tribe inhabiting the mountains on the Peshawar border of the North-West Frontier province of ( 128 lines )

Afterglow? -- AFTERGLOW, a broad high arch of whitish or rosy light appearing occasionally in the sky above the highest clouds in the hour ( 12 lines )

[Adam Afzelius]? -- AFZELIUS, ADAM (1750-1837), Swedish botanist, was born at Larf, Vestergotland, in 1750. He was appointed teacher ( 13 lines )

[Arvid August Afzelius]? -- AFZELIUS, ARVID AUGUST (1785-1871), Swedish pastor, poet, historian and mythologist, was born on the 8th of October ( 11 lines )

Aga? -- AGA, or AGHA, a word, said to be of Tatar origin, signifying a dignitary or lord. Among the Turks it is applied to the ( 7 lines )

Agaiambo? -- AGAIAMBO, or AGAUMBU, a race of dwarf marsh-dwellers in British New Guinea, now almost extinct. In his annual ( 15 lines )

Aga Khan I -- AGA KHAN I., HIS HIGHNESS THE (1800-1881), the title accorded by general consent to HASAN ALI SHAH (born in Persia, ( 66 lines )

Aga Khan III -- AGA KHAN III. (Sultan Mahommed Shah), only son of the foregoing, succeeded him on his death in 1885, and became ( 24 lines )

Agalmatolite? -- AGALMATOLITE (from Gr. agalma, statue, and lithos, stone), a soft species of mineral, also called ( 5 lines )

Agamedes? -- AGAMEDES, in Greek legend, son of Erginus, king of Orchomenus in Boeotia. He is always associated with his brother Trophonius ( 22 lines )

Agamemnon -- AGAMEMNON, one of the most distinguished of the Greek heroes, was the son of Atreus (king of Mycenae) and Aerope, ( 71 lines )

Agape? -- AGAPE (Gr. agape, "Love"), the early Christian lovefeast. The word seems to be used in this sense in the ( 191 lines )

Agapemonites? -- AGAPEMONITES, or COMMUNITY OF THE SON OF MAN. This sect, based upon the theories of various German religious mystics, ( 133 lines )

Agapetae? -- AGAPETAE, a class of "virgins" who, in the church of the early middle ages, lived with professedly celibate monks ( 5 lines )

Agapetus? -- AGAPETUS, the name of two popes:--

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Agapetus? -- AGAPETUS, the name of two popes:--

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Agapetus II -- AGAPETUS II., pope from 946 to 955, at the time when Alberic, son of Marozia, was governing the independent republic of ( 12 lines )

Agapetus? -- AGAPETUS, the name of two popes:--

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[Arthur Agarde]? -- AGARDE, ARTHUR (1540-1615), English antiquary, was born at Foston, Derbyshire, in 1540. He was trained as a lawyer, ( 25 lines )

[Radulph Agas]? -- AGAS, RADULPH, or RALPH (c. 1540-1621), English land surveyor, was born at Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk, about ( 21 lines )

Agasias -- AGASIAS. There were two Greek sculptors of this name. Agasias, son of Dositheus, has signed the remarkable statue ( 9 lines )

Alexander Emanuel Agassiz -- AGASSIZ, ALEXANDER EMANUEL (1835-1910), American man of science, son of J. L. R. Agassiz, was born in Neuchatel, ( 31 lines )

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz -- AGASSIZ, JEAN LOUIS RODOLPHE (1807-1873), Swiss naturalist and geologist, was the son of the Protestant pastor of the ( 242 lines )

Agate -- AGATE, a term applied not to a distinct mineral species, but to an aggregate of various forms of silica, chiefly ( 230 lines )

[Saint Agatha]? -- AGATHA, SAINT, the patron saint of Catania, Sicily, where her festival is celebrated on the 5th of February. The legend ( 12 lines )

Agathangelus? -- AGATHANGELUS, AGATHANGE or AKATHANKELOS, Armenian historian, lived during the 4th century, and wrote a History ( 15 lines )

Agatharchides? -- AGATHARCHIDES, or AGATHARCHUS, of Cnidus, Greek historian and geographer, lived in the time of Ptolemy Philometor ( 13 lines )

Agatharchus? -- AGATHARCHUS, an Athenian painter of the 5th century B.C. He is said by Vitruvius to have been the first to paint a scene ( 14 lines )

Agathias? -- AGATHIAS (c. A.D. 536-582), of Myrina in Aeolis, Greek poet and historian. He studied law at Alexandria, ( 23 lines )

Agatho -- AGATHO, pope from 678 to 681, was born in Sicily. He is noteworthy as the pope who ordered St Wilfrid to be restored ( 9 lines )

Agathocles -- AGATHOCLES (361-289 B.C.), tyrant of Syracuse, was born at Thermae Himeraeae (mod. Termini Imerese) in ( 47 lines )

Agathodaemon? -- AGATHODAEMON, of Alexandria, map designer, probably lived in the 2nd century A.D. Some MSS. of the Geography of ( 13 lines )

Agathon -- AGATHON (c. 448-400 B.C.), Athenian tragic poet, friend of Euripides and Plato, best known from his mention by Aristophanes ( 13 lines )

Agathyrsi? -- AGATHYRSI, a people of Thracian origin, who in the earliest historical times occupied the plain of the Maris (Maros), in ( 23 lines )

Agave -- AGAVE, a large botanical genus of the natural order Amaryllidaceae, chiefly Mexican, but occurring also in the southern and western ( 52 lines )

Agde? -- AGDE, a town of southern France, in the department of Herault, on the left bank of the river of that name, 2 1/2 m. from the ( 45 lines )

Age? -- AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas), a term used (1) of the divisions into which it ( 158 lines )

Ageladas? -- AGELADAS, or (as the name is spelt in an inscription) HAGELAIDAS, a great Argive sculptor, who flourished in the ( 11 lines )

Agen? -- AGEN, a city of south-western France, capital of the department of Lot-et-Garonne, 84 m. S.E. of Bordeaux by the ( 58 lines )

Agenais? -- AGENAIS, or AGENOIS, a former province of France. In ancient Gaul it was the country of the Nitiobroges with Aginnum ( 36 lines )

Agent? -- AGENT (from Lat. agere, to act), a name applied generally to, any person who acts for another. It has probably been ( 51 lines )

Agent-general? -- AGENT-GENERAL, the term given to a representative in England of one of the self-governing British colonies. Agents-general ( 18 lines )

Agesander? -- AGESANDER, a Rhodian sculptor, whose title to fame is that he is mentioned by Pliny (Nat. Hist. xxxvi. 37) as ( 10 lines )

Agesilaus II -- AGESILAUS II., king of Sparta, of the Eurypontid family, was the son of Archidamus II. and Eupolia, and younger ( 96 lines )

Agglomerate? -- AGGLOMERATE (from the Lat. agglomerare, to form into a ball, glomus, glomeris), a term used in botany, meaning crowded ( 80 lines )

Agglutination? -- AGGLUTINATION (Lat. ad, and gluten, glutinare, literally to fasten together with glue), a term used technically in ( 17 lines )

Aggravation? -- AGGRAVATION (from Lat. ad, increasing, and gravis, heavy), the making anything graver or more serious, especially ( 6 lines )

Aggregation? -- AGGREGATION (from the Lat. ad, to, gregare, to collect together), in physics, a collective term for the forms or ( 12 lines )

Aggtelek? -- AGGTELEK, a village of Hungary, in the county of Gomor, situated to the south of Rozsnyo, on the road from Budapest to ( 23 lines )

Agincourt -- AGINCOURT (AZINCOURT), a village of northern France in the department of Pas de Calais, 14 m. N.W. of St Pol by ( 65 lines )

Agio? -- AGIO (Ital. aggio, exchange, discount, premium), a term used in commerce in three slightly different connexions. ( 39 lines )

Agira? -- AGIRA (formerly SAN FILIPPO D'ARGIRO), a town of the province of Catania, Sicily, with a railway station 4 1/2 m. ( 13 lines )

Agis -- AGIS, the name of four Spartan kings:--

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Agistment? -- AGISTMENT. To "agist" (from O. Fr. agister, derived from gesir--Lat. jacere--to lie) is, in law, to take ( 23 lines )

Agitators? -- AGITATORS, or ADJUTATORS, the name given to representatives elected in 1647 by the different regiments of the English ( 43 lines )

Antonio Agliardi -- AGLIARDI, ANTONIO (1832- ), papal diplomatist, was born at Cologno (Bergamo), Italy, on the 4th of September 1832. He ( 19 lines )

[Lago Di Agnano]? -- AGNANO, LAGO DI, a circular lake, 5 m. W. of Naples, Italy. It was apparently not formed until the middle ages, ( 12 lines )

Agnates? -- AGNATES (Agnati), in Roman law, persons related through males only, as opposed to cognates. Agnation was founded on ( 5 lines )

Saint Agnes -- AGNES, SAINT, a virgin martyr of the Catholic Church. The legend of St Agnes is that she was a Roman maid, by birth a ( 21 lines )

[Agnes of Meran]? -- AGNES OF MERAN (d. 1201), queen of France, was the daughter of Bertold IV., duke of Meran in Tirol. She is called Marie ( 24 lines )

Maria Gaetana Agnesi -- AGNESI, MARIA GAETANA (1718-1799), Italian mathematician, linguist and philosopher, was born at Milan on the 16th of May ( 57 lines )

David Hayes Agnew -- AGNEW, DAVID HAYES (1818-1892), American surgeon, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, on the 24th of November ( 22 lines )

Agni -- AGNI, the Hindu God of Fire, second only to Indra in the power and importance attributed to him in Vedic mythology. ( 26 lines )

Agnoetae? -- AGNOETAE (Gr. agnoeo, to be ignorant of), a monophysite sect who maintained that Christ's human nature was like other ( 6 lines )

Agnoiology? -- AGNOIOLOGY (from Gr. agnoi-a, ignorance), the science or study of ignorance, which determines its quality and conditions. ( 3 lines )

Agnosticism -- AGNOSTICISM. The term "agnostic" was invented by Huxley in 1869 to describe the philosophical and religious attitude ( 233 lines )

[Agnus Dei]? -- AGNUS DEI, the figure of a lamb bearing a cross, symbolical of the Saviour as the "Lamb of God." The device is common ( 28 lines )

Agobard? -- AGOBARD (c. 779-840), Carolingian prelate and reformer, became coadjutor to Leidrad, archbishop of Lyons, in 813, and ( 37 lines )

Agonalia? -- AGONALIA, in ancient Rome, festivals celebrated on the 9th of January, 17th of March, 21st of May, and 11th of ( 6 lines )

[Agonic Lines]? -- AGONIC LINES (from Gr. a-, privative, and gonia, an angle), the term given to the imaginary lines on the earth's ( 5 lines )

Agonothetes? -- AGONOTHETES, in ancient Greece, the president or superintendent of the sacred games. At first the person who instituted the ( 13 lines )

Agora? -- AGORA, originally, in primitive times, the assembly of the Greek people, convoked by the king or one of his nobles. The ( 28 lines )

Agoracritus? -- AGORACRITUS, a Parian and Athenian sculptor of the age of Phidias, and said to have been his favourite pupil. His ( 7 lines )

Agoranomi? -- AGORANOMI, magistrates in the republics of Greece, whose position and duties were in many respects similar to those ( 9 lines )

Agordat? -- AGORDAT, a town of Eritrea, N.E. Africa, on the route between Massawa and Kassala. At Agordat on the 21st of December 1893 ( 6 lines )

[Leonardo Agostini]? -- AGOSTINI, LEONARDO, Italian antiquary of the 17th century, was born at Siena. After being employed for some time to collect ( 10 lines )

Paolo Agostino -- AGOSTINO, or AGOSTINI [AUGUSTINUS], PAOLO (1593-1629), Italian musician, was born at Valerano, and studied under G. B. ( 8 lines )

[Agostino And Agnolo Da Siena]? -- AGOSTINO and AGNOLO (or ANGELO) DA SIENA, Italian architects and sculptors in the first half of the 14th ( 14 lines )

[Marie Catherine Sophie De Flavigny Agoult]? -- AGOULT, MARIE CATHERINE SOPHIE DE FLAVIGNY, COMTESSE D' (1805-1876), French author, whose nom de plume was "Daniel ( 47 lines )

Agouti -- AGOUTI, or AGUTI, the West Indian name of Dasyprocta aguti, a terrestrial rodent of the size of a rabbit, common ( 21 lines )

Agra? -- AGRA, an ancient city of India, which gives its name to a district and division in the United Provinces. It is ( 122 lines )

[Agra Canal]? -- AGRA CANAL, an important Indian irrigation work, available also for navigation, in Delhi, Gurgaon, Muttra and Agra ( 12 lines )

Agram? -- AGRAM (Hungarian Zagrab, Croatian Zagreb), the capital of Croatia-Slavonia, and a royal free town of Hungary; pleasantly ( 42 lines )

Agrapha? -- AGRAPHA (i.e. "unwritten"), the name given to certain utterances ascribed, with some degree of certainty, to ( 22 lines )

[Agrarian Laws]? -- AGRARIAN LAWS (Lat. ager, land). Under this heading we deal with the disposal of the public land (ager publicus) of ancient ( 410 lines )

[Maria Fernandez Coronel of Agreda]? -- AGREDA, MARIA FERNANDEZ CORONEL, ABBESS OF, known in religion as Sor (Sister) Maria de Jesus (1602-1665), was the ( 76 lines )

Christoph Ludwig Agricola -- AGRICOLA, CHRISTOPH LUDWIG (1667-1719), German landscape painter, was born and died at Regensburg (Ratisbon). He ( 12 lines )

Georg Agricola -- AGRICOLA (the Latinized form of the name BAUER), GEORG (1490-1555), German scholar and man of science, known as "the ( 82 lines )

Gnaeus Julius Agricola -- AGRICOLA, GNAEUS JULIUS (A.D. 37-93), Roman statesman and general, father-in-law of the historian Tacitus, was born on ( 44 lines )

Johann Friedrich Agricola -- AGRICOLA, JOHANN FRIEDRICH (1720-1774), German musician, was born at Dobitschen in Saxe-Altenburg, on the 4th of January ( 16 lines )

Johannes Agricola -- AGRICOLA (originally SCHNEIDER, then SCHNITTER), JOHANNES (1494-1566), German Protestant reformer, was born on the 20th of ( 46 lines )

Martin Agricola -- AGRICOLA, MARTIN (c. 1500-1556), German musician, was born about 1500 in Lower Silesia. His German name was Sohr or ( 21 lines )

Rodolphus Agricola -- AGRICOLA, RODOLPHUS (properly ROELOF HUYSMANN) (1443-1485), Dutch scholar, was born at Baflo, near Groningen, in 1443. ( 27 lines )

[Agricultural Gangs]? -- AGRICULTURAL GANGS, groups of women, girls and boys organized by an independent gang-master, under whose supervision they ( 45 lines )

Agriculture -- AGRICULTURE (from Lat. ager, field, and colere, to cultivate), the science, art and industry of utilizing the soil ( 1702 lines )

[Board of Agriculture]? -- AGRICULTURE, BOARD OF. The Board of Agriculture andFisheries, in England, owes its foundation to the establishment of a ( 192 lines )

Agrigentum? -- AGRIGENTUM (Gr. `Akragas mod. Girgenti (q.v.)), an ancient city on the south coastof Sicily, 2 1/2m. from the ( 233 lines )

Agrimony? -- AGRIMONY (from the Lat. agrimonia, a transformation of argemone, a word of unknown etymology), a slender perennial ( 18 lines )

Agrionia? -- AGRIONIA, an ancient Greek festival, which was celebrated annually at Orchomenus in Boeotia and elsewhere, in honour ( 12 lines )

Agrippa? -- AGRIPPA, a sceptical philosopher, whose date cannot be accurately determined. He must have lived later than ( 193 lines )

Aenesidemus? -- AENESIDEMUS, Greek philosopher, was born at Cnossus in Crete and taught at Alexandria, probably during the first century ( 71 lines )

Herod Agrippa I -- AGRIPPA, HEROD, I. (c. 10 B.C.-A.D. 44), king of Judea, the son of Aristobulus and Berenice, and grandson of Herod the ( 69 lines )

Herod Agrippa II -- AGRIPPA, HEROD, II. (27-100), son of the preceding, and like him originally Marcus Julius Agrippa, was born about ( 16 lines )

Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa -- AGRIPPA, MARCUS VIPSANIUS (63-12 P.C.), Roman statesman and general, son-in-law and minister of the emperor Augustus, ( 93 lines )

[Henry Cornelius Agrippa Von Nettesheim]? -- AGRIPPA VON NETTESHEIM, HENRY CORNELIUS (1486-1535) German writer, soldier, physician, and by common reputation a magician, ( 92 lines )

Agrippina the Elder -- AGRIPPINA, the "elder," daughter of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa by his third wife Julia, was the grand-daughter of Augustus ( 33 lines )

Agrippina the Younger -- AGRIPPINA, the "younger" (A.D. 16-59), daughter of Germanicus and Agrippina the elder, sister of Caligula and ( 30 lines )

[Agroteras Thusia]? -- AGROTERAS THUSIA, an annual festival held at Agrae near Athens, in honour of Artemis Agrotera, in fulfilment of ( 10 lines )

Aguadilla? -- AGUADILLA, a town and port near the northern extremity of the W. coast of Porto Rico. Pop. (1899) 6425. It has ( 11 lines )

[Alexandre Marie Aguado]? -- AGUADO, ALEXANDRE MARIE, marquis de Las Marismas del Guadalquivir, viscount de Monte Ricco (1784-1842), Spanish ( 23 lines )

Aguascalientes? -- AGUASCALIENTES, an inland state of Mexico, bounded N., E. and W. by the state of Zacatecas, and S. by Jalisco. Pop. ( 31 lines )

Ague? -- AGUE (from Lat. acuta, sharp; sc. febris, fever), the common name given to a form or stage of malarial disease; ( 10 lines )

[Henri Francois Aguesseau]? -- AGUESSEAU, HENRI FRANCOIS D' (1668-1751), chancellor of France, illustrious for his virtues, learning and talents, ( 107 lines )

[Grace Aguilar]? -- AGUILAR, GRACE (1816-1847), English writer, the daughter of a Jewish merchant in London, was born in June 1816. Her works ( 10 lines )

[Aguilar De La Frontera]? -- AGUILAR, or AGUILAR DE LA FRONTERA, a town of southern Spain, in the province of Cordova; near the small river ( 14 lines )

Aguilas? -- AGUILAS, a seaport of south-eastern Spain, in the province of Murcia, on the Mediterranean Sea, at the terminus of a railway from ( 12 lines )

[Ventura Ruiz Aguilera]? -- AGUILERA, VENTURA RUIZ (1820-1881), Spanish poet, was born in 1820 at Salamanca, where he graduated in medicine. He removed ( 13 lines )

Francois Aguillon -- AGUILLON (AGUILONIUS), FRANCOIS D, (1566-1617), Flemish mathematician. Having entered the Society of Jesus in ( 7 lines )

Ahab -- AHAB (in Heb. "father's brother"), king of Israel, the son and successor of Omri, ascended the throne about 875 B.C. ( 100 lines )

Ahasuerus? -- AHASUERUS (the Latinized form of the Hebrew shin vav resh tsareh vav shvah shin patach heth patach aleph; in LXX. ( 78 lines )

Ahaz? -- AHAZ (Heb. for "[Yahweh] holds"), son of Jotham, grandson of Uzziah or Azariah and king of Judah. After the death of ( 26 lines )

Ahaziah? -- AHAZIAH ("he whom Yahweh sustains"), the name of two kings in the Bible, one of Israel, the other of Judah. (1) ( 15 lines )

Ahenobarbus -- AHENOBARBUS ("brazen-bearded"), the name cf a plebeian Roman family of the gens Domitia. The name was derived ( 53 lines )

Ahithophel? -- AHITHOPHEL (Heb. for "brother of foolishness," i.e. foolish!), a man of Judah whose son was a member of David's ( 13 lines )

Abner -- ABNER (Hebrew for "father of [or is a light"), in the Bible, first cousin of Saul and commander-in-chief of ( 61 lines )

[Ahmad Ibn Hanbal]? -- AHMAD IBN HANBAL (780-855), the founder, involuntarily and after his death, of the Hanbalite school of canon law, was ( 34 lines )

Ahmad Shah -- AHMAD SHAH (1724-1773), founder of the Durani dynasty in Afghanistan, was the son of Sammaun-Khan, hereditary chief of ( 52 lines )

Ahmed I -- AHMED I. (1589-1617), sultan of Turkey, was the son of Mahommed III., whom he succeeded in 1603, being the first ( 18 lines )

Ahmed II -- AHMED II. (1643-1695), sultan of Turkey, son of Sultan Ibrahim, succeeded his brother Suleiman II. in 1691. ( 9 lines )

Ahmed III -- AHMED III. (1637-1736), sultan of Turkey, son of Mahommed IV., succeeded to the throne in 1703 on the abdication of ( 26 lines )

Ahmedabad? -- AHMEDABAD, or AHMADABAD, a city and district of British India in the northern division of Bombay. The city was once ( 82 lines )

Ahmednagar? -- AHMEDNAGAR, or AHMADNAGAR, a city and district of British India in the Central division of Bombay on the left bank of ( 40 lines )

[Pasha Ahmed Tewfik]? -- AHMED TEWFIK, PASHA (1845- ), Turkish diplomatist, was the son of Ismail Hakki Pasha. He was at first in the ( 8 lines )

[Pasha Ahmed Vefik]? -- AHMED VEFIK, PASHA (1819-1891), Turkish statesman and man of letters, was born in Stambul in 1819. He was the ( 105 lines )

Ahom? -- AHOM, or AHAM, a tribe of Shan descent inhabiting the Assam Valley, and, prior to the invasion of the Burmese at the ( 95 lines )

Ahr? -- AHR, a river of Germany. It is a left-bank tributary of the Rhine, into which it falls at Sinzig, rising in the Eifel ( 9 lines )

[Franz Heinrich Ludolf Ahrens]? -- AHRENS, FRANZ HEINRICH LUDOLF (1809-1881), German philologist, was born at Helmstedt on the 6th of June ( 18 lines )

Ahriman? -- AHRIMAN (Gr. 'Areimanios in Aristotle, or in Agathias; in the Avesta, Angro Mainyush--"the Destructive Spirit"), ( 14 lines )

Ahrweiler? -- AHRWEILER, a town of Germany, in the Prussian Rhine province, on the river Ahr and the Remagen-Adenau line of railway. Pop. ( 9 lines )

Aht? -- AHT, a confederacy of twenty-two tribes of North American Indians of the Wakashan stock. They are settled on the west ( 6 lines )

Ahtena? -- AHTENA ("ice people"), the name of an Athapascan tribe of North American Indians, in the basin of Copper River, Alaska. ( 5 lines )

Ahvaz? -- AHVAZ, a town of Persia, in the province of Arabistan, on the left bank of the river Karun, 48 m. S. of Shushter, in ( 29 lines )

Aibonito? -- AIBONITO, an inland town of the electoral district of Guayama, Porto Rico, on the highway between San Juan and ( 12 lines )

[Jean Francois Victor Aicard]? -- AICARD, JEAN FRANCOIS VICTOR (1848- ), French poet and dramatist, was born at Toulon on the 4th of February 1848. His ( 15 lines )

Gregor Aichinger -- AICHINGER, GREGOR (c. 1565-1628), one of the greatest German composers of the Golden Age. He was organist to the Fugger family ( 11 lines )

[Francis Aickin]? -- AICKIN, FRANCIS (d. 1805), Irish actor, first appeared in London in 1765 as Dick Amlet in Vanbrugh's The Confederacy ( 16 lines )

Aidan of Dalriada -- AIDAN (d. 606), king of the Scottish kingdom of Dalriada, was the son of Gabran, king of Dalriada, and became king after ( 6 lines )

Aidan of Lindisfarne -- AIDAN, or AEDAN, first bishop of Lindisfarne, a monk of Hii (Iona), was sent by the abbot Senegi to Northumbria, ( 13 lines )

Aide-de-camp? -- AIDE-DE-CAMP (Fr. for camp-assistant or, perhaps, field-assistant), an officer of the personal staff of a general, ( 12 lines )

Aidin? -- AIDIN. (1) A vilayet in the S.W. of Asia Minor including the ancient Lydia, Ionia, Carla and western Lycia. It derives ( 26 lines )

Aidone? -- AIDONE, a town of Sicily, in the province of Caltanisetta. From the town of Caltanisetta it is 22 m. E.S.E. direct (18 ( 13 lines )

Aids? -- AIDS, a term of medieval finance, were part of the service due to a lord from his men, and appear to have been ( 81 lines )

Aigrette? -- AIGRETTE (from the Fr. for egret, or lesser white heron), the tufted crest, or head-plumes of the egret, used for ( 11 lines )

Aigues-mortes? -- AIGUES-MORTES, a town of south-eastern France, in the department of Gard 25 m. S.S.W. of Nimes, on a branch ( 31 lines )

Aiguille? -- AIGUILLE (Fr. for needle), the sharp jagged points above the snow-line, standing upon the massif of a mountain split ( 7 lines )

Aiguillette? -- AIGUILLETTE (Fr. diminutive of AIGUILLE, a needle; the obsolete English form is "aglet"), originally a tag of ( 12 lines )

[Emmanuel Armand De Wignerod Du Plessis De Aiguillon]? -- AIGUILLON, EMMANUEL ARMAND DE WIGNEROD DU PLESSIS DE RICHELIEU, DUC D' (1720-1782), French statesman, nephew ( 71 lines )

[Marie Madeleine De Wignerod Du Pont De Courlay Aiguillon]? -- AIGUILLON, MARIE MADELEINE DE WIGNEROD DU PONT DE COURLAY, DUCHESSE D' (1604-1675), daughter of Cardinal Richelieu's ( 23 lines )

Aigun? -- AIGUN, or AIHUN (also Sakhalyan-ula-khoto), a town of China, province Hei-lung-kiang, in northern Manchuria, situated ( 18 lines )

Aiken? -- AIKEN, a city and the county-seat of Aiken county, South Carolina, U.S.A., 17 m. E.N.E. of Augusta, Georgia. Pop. ( 29 lines )

Arthur Aikin -- AIKIN, ARTHUR (1773-1854), English chemist and mineralogist, was born on the 19th of May 1773, at Warrington in Lancashire. ( 20 lines )

[John Aikin]? -- AIKIN, JOHN (1747-1822), English doctor and writer, was born at Kibworth-Harcourt, and received his elementary ( 40 lines )

[William Aikman]? -- AIKMAN, WILLIAM (1682-1731), British portrait-painter, was born at Cairney, Forfarshire. He was intended by his father ( 18 lines )

Ailanthus -- AILANTHUS (more correctly ailantus, from ailanto, an Amboyna word probably meaning "Tree of the Gods," or "Tree ( 23 lines )

[Pierre Ailly]? -- AILLY, PIERRE D, (1350-1420), French theologian, was born at Compiegne in 1350 of a bourgeois family, and ( 202 lines )

[Ailsa Craig]? -- AILSA CRAIG, an island rock at the mouth of the Firth of Clyde, 10 m. W. of Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland. It is of ( 39 lines )

Aimak? -- AIMAK, or EIMAK (Mongolian for "clan," or section of a tribe), the name given to certain nomadic or semi-nomadic ( 15 lines )

[Gustave Aimard]? -- AIMARD, GUSTAVE, the pen-name of OLIVIER GLOUX (1818-1883), French novelist, who was born in Paris on the 13th of September ( 10 lines )

Aimoin -- AIMOIN (c. 960-c. 1010), French chronicler, was born at Villefranche de Longchapt about 960, and in early life ( 29 lines )

Ain? -- AIN, a department on the eastern frontier of France, formed in 1790 from Bresse, the Pays de Gex, Bugey, Dombes and ( 75 lines )

[Alfred Ainger]? -- AINGER, ALFRED (1837-1904), English divine and man of letters, was born in London on the 9th of February 1837, the son of an ( 27 lines )

[Maximilian Emmanuel Ainmuller]? -- AINMULLER, MAXIMILIAN EMMANUEL (1807-1870), German artist and glass-painter, was born at Munich on the 14th of February ( 21 lines )

Henry Ainsworth -- AINSWORTH, HENRY (1571-1622), English Nonconformist divine and scholar, was born of yeoman stock in 1570/1 at Swanton ( 68 lines )

[Robert Ainsworth]? -- AINSWORTH, ROBERT (1660-1743), English schoolmaster and author, was born at Eccles, near Manchester, in September ( 18 lines )

[William Harrison Ainsworth]? -- AINSWORTH, WILLIAM HARRISON (1805-1882), English novelist, son of Thomas Ainsworth, solicitor, was born at Manchester ( 37 lines )

Aintab? -- AINTAB (anc. Doliche), a town in the vilayet of Aleppo and ancient Cyrrhestica district of N. Syria. Pop. 45,000, ( 42 lines )

Ainu -- AINU ("man"), a race inhabiting the northernmost islands of Japan. Little definite is known about their earliest ( 168 lines )

Air -- AIR, or ASBEN, a country of West Africa, lying between 15 deg. and 19 deg. N. and 6 deg. and 10 deg. E. It is within the ( 55 lines )

[Henry Airay]? -- AIRAY, HENRY (1560?-1616), English Puritan divine, was born at Kentmere, Westmorland, but no record remains of the ( 42 lines )

[Thomas Aird]? -- AIRD, THOMAS (1802-1876), Scottish poet, was born at Bowden, Roxburghshire, on the 28th of August 1802. He was educated at ( 15 lines )

Airdrie? -- AIRDRIE, a municipal and police burgh of Lanarkshire, Scotland. Pop. (1901) 22,228. It is situated 11 m. E. of ( 21 lines )

Aire? -- AIRE, a town of south-western France, in the department of Landes, on the left bank of the Adour, 22 m. S.E. of ( 18 lines )

Air-engine? -- AIR-ENGINE, the name given to heat-engines which use air for their working substance, that is to say for the substance which ( 192 lines )

[Richard Airey]? -- AIREY, RICHARD AIREY, BARON (1803-1881), British general, was the son of Lieutenant-General Sir George Airey (1761-1833) ( 37 lines )

Air-gun? -- AIR-GUN, a gun in which the force employed to propel the bullet is the elasticity of compressed atmospheric air. ( 13 lines )

[George Biddell Airy]? -- AIRY, SIR GEORGE BIDDELL (1801-1892), British Astronomer Royal, was born at Alnwick on the 27th of July 1801. ( 213 lines )

[John Aislabir]? -- AISLABIR, JOHN (1670-1742), English politician, was born at Goodramgate, York, on the 7th of December 1670. He was the ( 21 lines )

Aisle? -- AISLE (from Lat. ALA, a wing), a term which in its primary sense means the wing of a house, but is generally applied in ( 28 lines )

Aisne? -- AISNE, a frontier department in the north-east of France, formed in 1790 from portions of the old provinces of ( 68 lines )

[Mademoiselle Aisse]? -- AISSE [a corruption of HAIDEE], MADEMOISELLE (c. 1694-1733), French letter-writer, was the daughter of a ( 28 lines )

[William Aiton]? -- AITON, WILLIAM (1731-1793), Scottish botanist, was born near Hamilton in 1731. Having been regularly trained to the ( 11 lines )

[Lieuwe Van Aitzema]? -- AITZEMA, LIEUWE (LEO) VAN (1600-1669), Dutch historian and statesman, was born at Doccum, in Friesland, on the 19th ( 20 lines )

Aivali? -- AIVALI (Gr. Kydonia), a prosperous town on the W. coast of Asia Minor, opposite the island of Mitylene. Pop. ( 15 lines )

Aiwan? -- AIWAN, the reception-hall or throne-room of a Parthian or Sassanian palace.

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Aix -- AIX, a city of south-eastern France, capital of an arrondissement in the department of Bouches-du-Rhone, 18 m. N. of Marseilles ( 63 lines )

Aix-la-Chapelle -- AIX-LA-CHAPELLE (Ger. Aachen, Dutch Aken), a city and spa of Germany, in the kingdom of Prussia, situated in a ( 181 lines )

[Congresses of Aix-la-Chapelle]? -- AIX-LA-CHAPELLE, CONGRESSES OF. Three congresses have been held at Aix-la-Chapelle: the first in 1668, the second in 1748, the third in 1818. ( 130 lines )

Aix-les-bains? -- AIX-LES-BAINS, a town of France, in the department of Savoie, near the Lac du Bourget, and 9 m. by rail N. of Chambery. Pop. ( 10 lines )

[Sir Sheshadri Aiyar]? -- AIYAR, SIR SHESHADRI (1845-1901), native statesman of Mysore, India, was the son of a Brahman of Palghat in the district of ( 16 lines )

[Sir Tiruvarur Mutuswamy Aiyar]? -- AIYAR, SIR TIRUVARUR MUTUSWAMY (1832-1895), native Indian judge of the high court of Madras, was born of poor parents in ( 50 lines )

Ajaccio -- AJACCIO, the capital of Corsica, on the west coast of the island, 210 m. S.E. of Marseilles. Pop. (1906) 19,021. ( 35 lines )

Ajaigarh -- AJAIGARH, or ADJYGURH, a native state of India, in Bundelkhand, under the Central India agency. It has an ( 14 lines )

Ajanta -- AJANTA (more properly AJUJNTHI), a village in the dominions of the Nizam of Hyderabad in India (N. lat. 20 deg. 32' ( 59 lines )

Ajax the lesser -- AJAX (Gr. Aias), a Greek hero, son of Oileus, king of Locris, called the "lesser" or Locrian Ajax, to distinguish ( 25 lines )

Ajax the great -- AJAX, son Of Telamon, king of Cyprus, a legendary hero of ancient Greece. To distinguish him from Ajax, son of Oileus, ( 20 lines )

Ajmere -- AJMERE, or AJMER, a city of British India in Ra)putana. which gives its name to a district and also,to a petty ( 35 lines )

Ajmere-merwara? -- AJMERE-MERWARA, a division or petty province of British India, in Rajputana, consisting of the two districts of ( 53 lines )

Ajodhya? -- AJODHYA, an ancient city of India, the prehistoric capital of Oudh, in the Fyzabad district of the United Provinces. It is ( 26 lines )

[Gulf of Akaba]? -- AKABA, GULF OF, the Sinus Aelaniticus of antiquity, the eastern of the two divisions into which the Red Sea ( 50 lines )

[Aka Hills]? -- AKA HILLS, a tract of country on the north-east frontier of India, occupied by an independent tribe called the Akas. ( 23 lines )

Akalkot? -- AKALKOT, a native state of India, in the Deccan division of Bombay, ranking as one of the Satara Jagirs, situated ( 13 lines )

Jellaladin Mahommed Akbar -- AKBAR, AKHBAR or AKBER, JELLALADIN MAHOMMED (1542-1605), one of the greatest and wisest of the Mogul emperors. ' He ( 89 lines )

Akcha? -- AKCHA, a town and khanate of Afghan Turkestan. The town lies 42 m. westward of Balkh on the road to Andkhui. It is protected ( 9 lines )

Aken? -- AKEN, a town of Germany, in the kingdom of Prussia, on the Elbe, 25 m. E. S. E. of Magdeburg, with a branch line to ( 7 lines )

[Mark Akenside]? -- AKENSIDE, MARK (1721-1770), English poet and physician. was born at Newcastle-on-Tyne on the 9th of November 1721. ( 145 lines )

[John Yonge Akerman]? -- AKERMAN, JOHN YONGE (1806-1873), English antiquarian, distinguished chiefly in the department of numismatics, was ( 17 lines )

Akhaltsikh? -- AKHALTSIKH (Georgian Akhaltsikhe, "new fortress"), a fortified town of Russian Transcaucasia, government of ( 13 lines )

Akhmim? -- AKHMIM, or EKHMIM, a town of Upper Egypt, on the right bank of the Nile, 67 m. by river S. of Assiut, and 4 m. above ( 41 lines )

Akhtal? -- AKHTAL [GHIYYTH IBN HYRITH} (c. 640-710), one of the most famous Arabian poets of the Omayyad period, belonged to the tribe ( 26 lines )

Akhtyrka? -- AKHTYRKA, a town of Russia, in the government of Kharkov, near the Vorskla river, connected by a branch (11 m.) ( 11 lines )

Akka? -- AKKA (TIKEI-TIKKI), a race of African pygmies first seen by the traveller G. A. Schweinfurth in 1870, when he was in the ( 53 lines )

Akkad -- AKKAD (Gr. versions aroad and achad), a Hebrew name, mentioned only once in the Old Testament (Gen. x. 10), for ( 90 lines )

Akkerman? -- AKKERMAN (in old Slav. Byelgorod, "white town"), a town, formerly a fortress, of south-west Russia, in the ( 20 lines )

Akmolinsk? -- AKMOLINSK, one of the governments belonging to the governor-generalship of the Steppes in Asiatic Russia, formerly ( 35 lines )

Akola? -- AKOLA, a town and district of India, in Berar, otherwise known as the Hyderabad Assigned Districts. The town is on ( 43 lines )

Akron? -- AKRON, a city and the county-seat of Summit county, Ohio, U.S.A., on the Little Cuyaboga river, about 35 m. S. by E. of ( 41 lines )

Aksu? -- AKSU (White Water), a town of the Chinese empire, Eastern Turkestan, in 41 deg. 7' N. and 79 deg. 7' E. of Uch-Turfan and 270 ( 15 lines )

Akyar? -- AKYAR, a city and distact in the Arakan division of Burma. The city is situated at the confluence of the three ( 43 lines )