A Technological Dictionary: Explaining the Terms of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, Professions, and TradesW. Tegg, 1846 - 755 σελίδες |
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... TREE , the hoary or white poplar ( populus aloa ) . The wood is white and soft , fit only for coarse work . The best sort of abel - trees having come from Holland , it is in some places known by the name of Dutch beech . ABEL'IANS ...
... TREE , the hoary or white poplar ( populus aloa ) . The wood is white and soft , fit only for coarse work . The best sort of abel - trees having come from Holland , it is in some places known by the name of Dutch beech . ABEL'IANS ...
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... tree by itself , or the colour of the leaves , as separate from their size or form . 2. In logic , the power which the mind has of separating the combinations presented to it , bears the name of abstrac- tion . - Stewart . Abstraction ...
... tree by itself , or the colour of the leaves , as separate from their size or form . 2. In logic , the power which the mind has of separating the combinations presented to it , bears the name of abstrac- tion . - Stewart . Abstraction ...
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... tree ; class octandria , order monogynia ; name , from acer , sharp , sour ; Celtic , ac , on account of the hardness of the wood , which was employed in fabricating spears , pikes , & c . There are 24 species , two of which are natives ...
... tree ; class octandria , order monogynia ; name , from acer , sharp , sour ; Celtic , ac , on account of the hardness of the wood , which was employed in fabricating spears , pikes , & c . There are 24 species , two of which are natives ...
Σελίδα 24
... tree ; African calabash- tree : a genus of one species belonging to the class monadelphia , order polyandria . This huge tree is a native of Africa . It grows mostly on the western coast , from the Niger to the kingdom of Benin . Its ...
... tree ; African calabash- tree : a genus of one species belonging to the class monadelphia , order polyandria . This huge tree is a native of Africa . It grows mostly on the western coast , from the Niger to the kingdom of Benin . Its ...
Σελίδα 40
... tree ) . AGRIFOLIUM , the holly - tree , so named from aygios , fierce , and folium , leaf , on account of its sharp prickles . AG'RIMONIA , a genus of plants . Class , AG'RIMONY , dodecandria , order digynia . The name gysuórn was ...
... tree ) . AGRIFOLIUM , the holly - tree , so named from aygios , fierce , and folium , leaf , on account of its sharp prickles . AG'RIMONIA , a genus of plants . Class , AG'RIMONY , dodecandria , order digynia . The name gysuórn was ...
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Σελίδα 250 - The court-leet, or view of frankpledge,(x) which is a court of record, held once in the year, and not oftener,(^) within a particular hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward of the leet: being the king's court, granted by charter to the lords of those hundreds or manors.
Σελίδα 309 - Are they Hebrews ? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the seed of Abraham ? So am I.
Σελίδα 136 - The person who writes or draws the bill is called the drawer. The person to whom it is addressed is called the drawee.
Σελίδα 156 - Bow, is the rounding part of a ship's side forward, beginning where the planks arch inwards, and terminating where they close at the stem or prow. On the bow, an arch of the horizon, not exceeding 45 degrees.
Σελίδα 153 - Alfred : who, to prevent the rapines and disorders which formerly prevailed in the realm, instituted tithings ; so called from the Saxon, because ten freeholders with their families composed one. These all dwelt together, and were sureties or free pledges to the king for the good behaviour of each other ; and if any offence was committed in their district, they were bound to have the offender forthcoming b.
Σελίδα 227 - A circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the circumference, and is such, that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference are equal to one another.
Σελίδα 390 - The power or faculty of the mind, by which it conceives and forms ideas of things communicated to it by the organs of sense.
Σελίδα 36 - affray" is denned to be "the fighting of two or more persons in a public place to the terror of the people.
Σελίδα 4 - For I perceived that, if light was propagated in time, the apparent place of a fixed object would not be the same when the eye is at rest, as when it is moving in any other direction than that of the line passing through the eye and...
Σελίδα 243 - ... when there are four proportionals, and it is inferred, that the excess of the first above the second, is to the second, as the excess of the third above the fourth, is to the fourth.