institution based on a relationship of dominance and submission, whereby one person owns another and can exact from that person labor or other service...
preparation of pulverized tobacco used by sniffing it into the nostrils, chewing it, or placing it between the gums and the cheek. The blended tobacco...
(s ´l s) (KEY) , in the Acts of the Apostles, early Christian leader and companion of Paul on two missionary journeys. Probably he is the Silvanus me...
c.1831–1890, Native American chief, Sioux leader in the battle of the Little Bighorn. He rose to prominence in the Sioux warfare against the whites ...
1903–96, American immunologist, b. Bradford, Mass., Ph.D. Harvard, 1930. He was associated with the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine from 193...
small device that resembles a credit card but contains an embedded microprocessor to store and process information. Magnetic-stripe cards, which store...