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(y ´hän h n´r kh r s) (KEY) , 1631–85, German painter and etcher. He specialized in depicting animals and landscapes and was court painter to Ele...
(sl th, slôth) (KEY) , arboreal mammal found in Central and South America distantly related to armadillos and anteaters. Sloths live in tropical fore...
(s s ´n n z m) (KEY) , anti-Trinitarian religious movement organized in Poland in the 16th cent. by Faustus Socinus. Antecedents of the movement wer...
(Hyacinthe Rigaud y Ros) (yäs Nt´ r g ´ rôs) (KEY) , 1659–1743, French portrait painter, b. Perpignan. From 1688 he became almost exclusively t...
(s vän´) (KEY) , in the Jewish calendar, the third month (or ninth month, depending upon the system of reckoning). Esther 8.9; Baruch 1.8....
(s r´ s) (KEY) , or Dog Star, brightest star in the sky. It is located in the constellation Canis Major (1992 position R.A. 6h44.8m, Dec. -16°42´)...