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ENID, a city and the county-seat of Garfield county, Oklahoma, U.S.A., about 55 m. N.W. of Guthrie. Pop. (1900) 3444; (1907) 10,087 (355 of negro descent); (1010) 13,799. Enid is served by the St Louis & San Francisco, the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, and the ...

NIDA.—These start from highly developed and specialized aquatic branchiferous forms, exhibiting a prosoma with six pedifonn pairs of appendages, an intermediate prae-genital somite, a mesosoma of six somites bearing iamelliform pairs of appendages, and a metas

... developed in both sexes. In certain derivative forms constituting the family PaUenidae, however, the appendages of the 2nd pair are either rudimentary or atrophied altogether. Two families: I. Nymphonidae (genus Nymphon), and 2. Pallenidae (genus Patient). Ord ...

... , 1895) ; Eduard Meyer's Geschtikle des Alterthums, ii. sect. 228 ; A. H. I. Greenidgc, Handbook of Creek Constitutional Hist. (1895): J. W. Headlam, Election by Lot in Athens (Camb., 1891); and authorities quoted under GREECE: History, ancient, and ATHENS: Hi ...

... he infidels, and tried to restore the old Persian empire, which under the Achaemenids had extended over the whole of Asia from the Aegean Sea to the Indus. At the same time he put down the local dynasts and tried to create a strong concentrated power. His empi ...

... uced on the surface of the copper, probably due to the formation of a copper arsenide. The reaction proceeds better on heating the solution. On removing, washing and gently drying the metal and heating it in a glass tube, a white crystalline sublimate is forme ...

... g, 1884-1891); A. H. Friedlander, Sittengeschichte Roms, i. (1901); A. H. J. Greenidge, History of Rome, i. (1904); J. B. Bury, The Student's Roman Empire (1893): T. M. Taylor, Political and Constitutional History of Rome (1899). Fora concise summary of differ ...

... ccurs as a product of alteration of smaltite (CoAs2) and other cobaltiferous arsenides. The finest crystallized specimens are from Schneeberg in Saxony. The earthy variety has been found in Thuringia and Cornwall and some other places. (2) The alcohol erythrit ...

... s have been preserved. For his doctrine (a combination of the principles of Parmenides and Socrates) see MEGARIAN SCHOOL. EUCLID. Greek mathematician of the 3rd century B.C.; we are ignorant not only of the dates of his birth and death, but also of his parenta ...

... Dinopis). Argiapidae (Nephtla, Gasteracantha). Pholcidae (Pholcus, Artema). Agelenidae (Tegenaria). Lycosidae (Lycosa). Clubionidae (Clubiona, Olios, Sparassus) Gnaphosidae (Gnaphosa, Hemiclaea). Thomisidae (Thomisus). Attidae (Salticus). Urocteidae (Uroctea). ...

... etimes identified with her) by whom it was handed over to Apollo (Aeschylus, Eumenides, 2; Euripides, Iphig. in T. 1181). Orphic poetry makes her a daughter of Helios, whose eye is all-seeing (iravdepiaii) and penetrates all mysteries. She was especially honou ...