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(s ´f n, –f n) (KEY) , tube through which a liquid is lifted over an elevation by the pressure of the atmosphere and is then emptied at a lower lev...
(d ´s n) (KEY) , 1868–1939, English astronomer, b. Ashby-de-la-Zouch, grad. Cambridge. He was astronomer royal of Scotland (1905–10) and of Engla...
1846–94, Scottish biblical scholar and Orientalist. He studied for the ministry of the Free Church of Scotland. From 1870 he was professor of Orient...
common name for a shore bird of the family Scolopacidae (sandpiper family), native to the Old and New Worlds. The common, or Wilson’s snipe (Capella...
(m ´r ts f n shv nt) (KEY) , 1804–71, Austrian historical painter and illustrator of the romantic school. Best known for the imagination and streng...
(sûr´m m) (KEY) , ancient city of Pannonia. The site is near modern Sremska Mitrovica, NW Serbia and Montenegro, in Serbia. Sirmium was unimportant...