The Encyclopedia Americana: A Universal Reference Library Comprising the Arts and Sciences, Literature, History, Biography, Geography, Commerce, Etc., of the World, Volumen 7Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines Scientific American Compiling Department, 1905 |
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... means of prison discipline , it has been used till very recently , and its disuse is a subject of debate . For the subject of its use as a legal punishment for cer- tain offenses , see FLAGELLATION ; WHIPPING- POST . Flood , flud ...
... means of prison discipline , it has been used till very recently , and its disuse is a subject of debate . For the subject of its use as a legal punishment for cer- tain offenses , see FLAGELLATION ; WHIPPING- POST . Flood , flud ...
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... means of stone crushers , saddle stones , and stone mortars . The ancient Greeks , Romans , Chaldæans , and Egyptians used saddle stones for grinding wheat into flour , the wheat being placed in a concave stone and rubbed with a convex ...
... means of stone crushers , saddle stones , and stone mortars . The ancient Greeks , Romans , Chaldæans , and Egyptians used saddle stones for grinding wheat into flour , the wheat being placed in a concave stone and rubbed with a convex ...
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... means of their nectar and sweets and also their pollen ; that the visits of insects are in favor- able days practically incessant , though owing to the weather more or less intermittent ; the re- sult seems to be that the forms of ...
... means of their nectar and sweets and also their pollen ; that the visits of insects are in favor- able days practically incessant , though owing to the weather more or less intermittent ; the re- sult seems to be that the forms of ...
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... means of beam - trawls in great quantities , and highly prized as food , especially in Great Britain , where it is consid- ered little inferior to the sole . It is the " craig fluke " of Scotland . See FLOUNDER . Fluke - worm . See ...
... means of beam - trawls in great quantities , and highly prized as food , especially in Great Britain , where it is consid- ered little inferior to the sole . It is the " craig fluke " of Scotland . See FLOUNDER . Fluke - worm . See ...
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... means of which the thrust of a vault or arch is carried across an open space to a buttress ( q.v. ) . Nearly every instance of the use of the flying buttress is in connection with Gothic architecture , and some of the earliest forms are ...
... means of which the thrust of a vault or arch is carried across an open space to a buttress ( q.v. ) . Nearly every instance of the use of the flying buttress is in connection with Gothic architecture , and some of the earliest forms are ...
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