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TIP-CAT (also called Cat and Cat and Dog), a pastime which consists in tapping with a stick a short billet of wood with sharpened ends upon one of these ends, so that it jumps in the air, and then hitting it to the greatest possible distance. There are many va ...

... almost bare of vegetation between Benguella and Mi medcs. Nephelinc basalts and tiparite* occur at Dombe Grande. The presence of gum copal in considerable quantities in the superficial rocks is characteristic of certain regions. Climate. — With the exception o ...

... that of man. This latter theory, which in many cases is equivalent to personification, though it may be, like animism, a feature of the philosophy of peoples of low culture, should nut be confused with it. But it is difficult in practice to distinguish the tw ...

... ca, through the Saxon antefn, a word which originally had the same meaning as antiphony (?.».). It is now, however, generally restricted to a form of church music, particularly in the service of the Church of England, in which it is appointed by the rubrics to ...

... f London, and was published by that body in 1 7 5 1 . The structure and classification of polyps, however, were at that time very imperfectly understood, and it was fully a century before the true anatomical characters and systematic position of corals were pl ...

... ctious, virulent disease, caused by the Bacillus anthracis, in animals, chiefly cattle, sheep and horses, and frequently occurring in workers in the wool or hair, as well as in those handling the hides or carcases, of beasts which have been affected. Animals. ...

... s, as in the absence of tails; in their semi -erect position (resting on finger-tip^ or knuckles); in the shape of vertebral column, sternum and pelvis; in the adaptation of the arms for turning the palm uppermost at will; in the possession of a long vermiform ...

... ces it .si ill preserves some memorials of its early grandeur, notably its fine cathedral. This church was begun in the i-ith century, but not finished till 1518. Its tower of over 400 ft. is a conspicuous object to be seen from afar over the surrounding flat ...

... oks were sent to Eudemus at intervals, as revised, and the later books were dedicated (after Kudcmus' death) t« King Attalus I. (241-197 B.C.). Only (our Books have survivril in (•n-ck, three more are extant in Arabic; the eighth has never been found. Although ...

... e; it cannot e.g. simply ignore the Old Testament with F. E. D. Schleiermacher. Catholic apologetics must further give a central position to Church authority, which Roman Catholics explicitly define as infallible; but this position too is debated in a late sec ...

... tion." Although the term is occasionally employed in medicine with other significations, yet in its general acceptation apoplexy may be defined as a sudden loss of consciousness, of sensibility, and of movement without any essential modification of the respira ...

... iscipline and character of the Church; in part for private instruction and edification, but in part also with a view to actual use; frequently even with an actual reference to particular circumstances. In this lies their importance, to a degree which is only j ...

... g Pan, Hermes and Artemis, primitive nature-deities. The difficulties of communication and especially the lack of a seaboard seriously hindered intercourse with the rest of Greece. Consequently the same population, whose origins Greek tradition removed back in ...

... ods: his youth under his parents till his eighteenth year; his philosophical education under Plato at Athens till his thirty-eighth year; his travels in the Greek world till his fiftieth year; and his philosophical teaching in the Lyceum till his departure to ...

... e was the youngest of thirteen children, and received but a very indifferent education. After serving his apprenticeship in his native town, he established himself as a barber at Bolton about 1750, and later amassed a little property from dealing in human hair ...

... with him in 1763. He died on the 7th of September 1779. Armstrong's first publication, an anonymous one, entitled An Essay for Abridging the Study of Physic (1735), wasasatireon the ignorance of the apothecaries and medical men of his day. This was followed t ...

... eat cause which was nearest his heart, and in pamphlets, poems and songs communicated his enthusiasm to his countrymen. Schill's heroic death at Stralsund impelled him to return to Germany and, under the disguise of " Almann, teacher of languages," he reached ...

... . Artakkshasta, Bab. Artakshatsu, Susian Irtakshaskska (and variants), Gr. '\pratipfrtt, 'ApTo{fp£i7», and in an inscription of Tralles (Dittenbergcr, Sylloge, 573) 'Apra£«<r<7ijt; Herodotus (vi. 98) gives the translation fti-fai &pniot, and considers the name ...

... y, ov\ia (" the healer," cf. Apollo Oulios), Xfo;, \vala. (" purifier,") and a&rtipa, " she who saves from all evils " (cf. Apollo airoTpoirtuos). Her connexion with the prophetic art is doubtful, although mention is made of an Artemis Sibylla. To her associat ...

... re is so much in common in the fundamental principles which underlie their application, that it is unprofitable to consider them as completely distinct sciences. Speaking in the most comprehensive way, and making an exception of the ethereal medium (see AETHER ...

... a proceeding at which a price was put by the owner under a candlestick with a stipulation that no bidding should avail if not equal to it. In a " Dutch auction " property is offered at a certain price and then successively at lower prices until one is accepte ...

... t of Dalmatia also possesses many safe bays, the principal being those of Zara, Cattaro and Ragusa, but in some places it is very steep and inaccessible. On the other hand a string of islands extends along this coast, which offer many safe and easily accessibl ...

... in opposite electric condition. Hence half the wave length must be an odd submultiple of the length of the circuit HLMJ. If H and J are connected together the wave length must be a submultiple of the length of this circuit. When the capacity at the ends is app ...

... divided into four well-marked periods. The first extends from the date of publication of Gilbert's great treatise in 1600 to the invention by Volta of the voltaic pile and the first production of the electric current in 1799. The second dates from Volta's dis ...

... s the surface of the dielectric is rubbed with a piece of warm flannel, silk or cat skin, so as to electrify it, and the upper metal plate is then placed upon it. Owing to the irregularities in the surfaces of the dielectric and upper plate the two are only in ...

... ible, to form any distinct idea of anything capable of being excited and communicated in the manner that heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be motion." About the same time Davy showed that two pieces of ice could be melted by rub ...

... near Tonnerre in Burgundy, on the 7th of October 1728. He was the son of an advocate of good position, and after a distinguished course of study at the College Mazarin he became a doctor of law by special dispensation before the usual age, and adopted his fath ...

... tirely of the nature of general reflections upon death that they contain no indication of the particular case that called them forth. It may be questioned, indeed, whether several of this character quoted in ordinary collections are epitaphs at all, in the sen ...

... ified by the horse (Equus caballus) ; see HORSE. According to the older classification this family was taken to include only the forms with tall-crowned teeth, more or less closely allied to the typical genus Equus. There is, however, such an almost complete g ...

... ime at Deventer, he was a chorister at Utrecht under the famous organist of the cathedral, Jacob Obrecht. About 1484 Erasmus' father died, leaving him and an elder brother Peter, both born out of wedlock, to the care of guardians, their mother having died shor ...

... e winter cold, occasionally 10° to 25° below zero F., accompanied by blizzards (tipi) sometimes fatal to travellers overtaken by them. The summer heat is moderate (59° to 77°). There are several well-built mosques (none older than the 1 6th century), public ba ...

... alebone frame, with a hole in the centre for the paddler. It is driven by a bonetipped double-bladed paddle. A waterproof skin or entrail dress is tightly fastened round the mouth of the hole so that, should the canoe overturn, no water can enter. A skilful pa ...

... 3 MSS.; and Rossini (Rendiconti, 1904) a collection of 35 MSS. >elonging to the Catholic mission at Chcren. Other collections exist in Abyssinia, and many MSS. are in private hands. In 1893 besides portions of the Bible some 40 Ethiopic books had >een printed ...

... with its many streams could scarcely be surpassed for the raising of crops and cattle, and the hills were heavily timbered. That it was such material as this, which leaves no trace with the passing of time, that they sold cannot be doubted, for there is plent ...

... al amoeboid movements of the polymorphonuclear leucocytes, and has a definite antiperiodic action; but it is a very poor substitute for quinine in malaria. In large doses it acts as an irritant to the kidneys, by which it is largely excreted, and as a marked n ...

... connotation, is derived from the Lat. missa or missio, because the children and catechumens, or unbaptized believers, were dismissed before the eucharistic rite began. Other names express various aspects of the rite: Communion (Gr. Koivtavia) , the fellowship ...

... lic stand against the patriarchs of Constantinople. He, however, held no communication with them, being closely watched in this respect by Roman opinion. EUGENIUS II., pope, was a native of Rome, and was chosen to succeed Pascal I. in 824. His election did not ...

... n Europe and Asia where there is land connexion, caused uncertainty in the application of the two names, but never obscured the necessity for recognizing the distinction. Even in the 3rd century B.C. Europe was regarded by Eratosthenes as including all that wa ...

... are so adjusted by bending that B, at the moment when it is opposite A, communicates with the ball D, and A communicates with C through GH; and half a revolution later C, when B comes opposite to it, communicates with the ball D through the contact of K with ...

... of them even of a more extraordinary kind, for it will dance round, holding the tip of its tail or one of its wings in a way that no other bird is known to do. Its habits in its own country were described at some length in 1863 by M. Jouan (Mem. Soc. Sc. Nat. ...