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TOM-TOM, or TAM-TAM, a native Indian and Asiatic word, reduplicated and onomatopoeic .in form, for a drum, hence often loosely applied to the various types of primitive drum used for purposes of religious excitement, war, signalling, &c., by savage tribes thro ...

TOMATO, Lycopersicum esculentum (Nat. Ord. Solanaceae), a tender annual, native of South America, probably Peru. The fruit is much esteemed in salads and as a vegetable. Efforts have been made to popularize it for dessert, with varying success. Plants intended ...

... m the parent stock by the Arakan Yoma mountains, and they have a dialect and customs of their own. Though conquered by the Burmese, they have remained distinct from their conquerors. The Northern Arakan Hill Tracts district is under a superintendent, who is us ...

... ouring peoples. And if one turns from physical criteria to their manners and customs it is only to find fresh evidence of their isolation. While their neighbours, the Malays, Papuans and Polynesians, all cultivate the soil, and build substantial huts and house ...

... , however, do not observe these distinctions, and neither in language nor in custom do we find evidence of any appreciable differences between the two former groups, though in custom Kent presents most remarkable contrasts with the other kingdoms. Still more c ...

... 1870 to about £3,000,000 in 1005, is largely with Portugal and in Portuguese bottoms. Between 1893 and 1904 the percentage of Portuguese as compared with foreign goods entering the province increased from 43 to 201 %, a result due to the preferential duties in ...

... ined from it in various ways. After death it was mummified and buried in a rock-tomb. Less widespread was the cult of the Mnevis, also consecrated to Osiris. Similar observances are found in our own day on the Upper Nile; the Nuba and Nuer worship the bull; th ...

... ulture in Australia. America and Asia. For some of Ihe Red Indians Ihe Roman custom of receiving Ihe brealh of a dying man was no mere pious duly bul a means of ensuring lhal his soul was iransferred lo a new body. Olher familiar conceptions idenlify ihe soul ...

... e free mobility and usefulness to the limb. " Ankylosis " is also used as an anatomical term, bones being said to ankylose (or anchylose) when, from being originally distinct, they coalesce, or become so joined together that no motion can take place between th ...

... n the latter is reached and the pit completed, the larva settles down at the bottom, buried in the soil with only the jaws projecting above the surface. Since the sides of the pit consist of loose sand they afford an insecure foothold to any small insect that ...

... te (i) the fronts of ante-fixae, (2) the upper portion of the stele or vertical tombstones, (3) the necking of the Ionic columns of the Krrrht hrum and its continuation as a decorative frieze on the walls of the tame, and (4) the cymatium of a cornice. Though ...

... inner being he who drained his cup most rapidly. Others poured libations on the tombs of deceased relatives. On the part of the state this day was the occasion of a peculiarly solemn and secret ceremony in one of the sanctuaries of Dionysus in the Lenaeum, whi ...

... time very imperfectly understood, and it was fully a century before the true anatomical characters and systematic position of corals were placed on a secure basts. The hard calcareous substance to which the name coral is applied is the supporting skeleton of c ...

... ed how to make the morbific poison its own antidote. (See VIVISECTION.) The symptoms vary with the species of animal, the mode of infection, and the seat of the primary lesion, internal or external. In all its forms anthrax is an inoculable disease, transmissi ...

... rwin and the Evolutionists. It is generally admitted now that no fundamental anatomical difference can be proved to exist between these higher apes and man, but it is equally agreed that none probably of the Simiidae is in the direct line of human ancestry. Th ...

... stian child for ritual purposes. The man was, of course, acquitted, but the symptoms it revealed of reviving medievalism strongly stirred the liberal and cultured mind of Germany. All protest, however, seemed powerless, and the barbarian movement appeared dest ...

... ture in French than in ANTITYPE— ANTOFAGASTA '47 English; while in German, with tome striking exception*, it is •» nous by its absence.

... leted a whole corpus of lectionaries, missals, gospels, &c. See M. Gaster, Chrestomathie roumaine (1881), and " Gesch. d. rumamschen Litteratur," in Grober, Grundriss d. rom. Philologie, vol. ii. (1899); and E. Picot, Notice sur Anthim d'lvir (Paris, 1886). (M ...

... erp is that of St James, far more ornate than the cathedral, and containing the tomb of Rubens, who devoted himself to its embellishment. The Bourse or exchange, which claims to be the first distinguished by the former name in Europe, is a fine new building fi ...

... y, of all supplies for the dead, and therefore of embalming when that became customary. In very early inscriptions the funerary prayers in the tombs are addressed to him almost exclusively, and he always took a leading place in them. In the scene of the weighi ...

... his again rests on a strong foundation of timber and masonry or concrete. In anatomy the term anvil is applied to one of the bones of the middle ear, the incus, which is articulated with the malleus.

... i,, in which the univalent group Ca(F, Cl, OH) takes the place of one hydrogen atom in orthophosphoric acid HjPO<. The formula is sometimes written in the form 3Caj(PO«)i-fCaFj. Mangan-apatite is a variety in which calcium is largely replaced by manganese (up ...

... red it to the gods. The victim was called utiov. On this day also it was the custom for boys still at school to declaim pieces of poetry, and to receive prizes (Plato, Timaeus, 21 B). According to Hesychius these three days of the festival were followed by a f ...

... utting of a Ratio; and, Xwpiov O.TOTOIOI, Cutting o/ an Area; 3rd, favour (livy TOM, Determinate Section; 4th, 'Era<t>al, Tangencies; sth, Ntwms, Inclinations; 6th, Tbroi irirt&x, Plane Loci. Each of these was divided into two books, and, with the Data, the Po ...

... n France; Gay and Dodsley in England; Gellert, Lessing and Hagedorn in Germany; Tomas de Iriarte in Spain, and Krilov in Russia, are leading modern writers of apologues. Length is not an essential matter in the definition of an apologue. Those of La Fontaine a ...

APONEUROSIS (Gr. airo, away, and vtvpov, a sinew), in anatomy, a membrane separating muscles from each other.

... ss of fluid found in such coses was formerly thought to be the cause of the symptoms, consequently the condition was called serous apoplexy. Such terms are no longer used, owing to the better knowledge of the pathology of brain disease. Having thus narrowed do ...

... process of compilation and crystallization, so to speak, of unwritten church custom; and a short account of this process will show their real importance and value. 1 Why he did not go on to give the remaining thirty-five is not clear; they belong to the same d ...

... e deification of dead emperors. But it is still used simply for the erection of tombs (clearly so in some Greek inscriptions, Corpus Inscript. Grace. 2831, 2832, quoted in Pauly-Wissowa, s.v. Apotheosis). Possibly there is a trace of ancestor worship even here ...

... not only utumed a profound scientific importance for the convenient study of anatomical and physiological problems in marine botany and zoology, but have also attained an economic value, as offering the] best opportunities for that study of the habits and envi ...

... s originally a Latin colony, but became a municipium probably in 90 B.C. The customs boundary of Italy was close by in Cicero's day. It was plundered by the lapydes under Augustus, but, in the period of peace which followed, was able to develop its resources. ...

... r of reason as a source of truths in themselves mysterious, and was always accustomed to say that reason as well as revelation contained two kinds of knowledge. The first kind lay quite beyond the power of man to receive it, the second was within man's reach. ...

... nd in sculpture. As specimens of exquisite work may be mentioned the Martinengo tomb, in the church of the Padri Riformati at Brescia, and the facade of the church of Santa Maria dei Miracoli there, by the Lombard!; and many of the carvings of the Chateau de G ...

... s, by Lord Brougham; Popular Lectures on Astronomy, by Walter Kelly and Rev. L. Tomlinson (London, 1854) ; also translated by Dr W. H. Smyth and Prof. R. Grant, 2 vols. (London, 1855); Arago's Autobiography, translated by the Rev. Baden Powell (London, 1855. 1 ...

... ffluents, the Bonito, C.ar<.as. Cristallino and Tapirap6 on the west, and the Pitombas, Claro, Vennelho, Tucupa and Chavante on the cast, nothing definite is known as the country is still largely unexplored. The Araguaya has a course of 1080 m.. considerable s ...

... ept the steamships of the Russians, that venture on the waters, are the flat-bottomed boats of the Kirghiz. In regard to the period of the formation of the Aral there were formerly two theories. According to Sir H^ C. Rawlinson (Proc. Roy. Geog. Soc., March 18 ...

... and its charter of 1 599 is preserved. King John exempted it from " toll and custom " in every part of England excepting London. Arbroath is" Fairport " of Scott's Antiquary, and Auchmithie, 3 m. north-east (" Musselcrag " of the same romance), is a quaint old ...

... ARCACHON— ARCADE at the service of his friends. In 1712 appeared " Law is a Bottomless Pit, Exemplify'd in the case of the Lord Strutt, John Bull, Nicholas Frog and Lewis Baboon, who spent all they had in a law-suit. Printed from a Manuscript found in the Cab ...

... ughout historic times, without even an admixture of Dorian immigrants. Their customs and dialect persisted, the latter maintaining a peculiar resemblance to that of the equally conservative Cypriotes. Thus Arcadia lagged behind the general development of Greec ...

... le to the emperor. The struggle between the court and the patriarch John Chrysostom (?.».), who assumed an independent attitude and gravely offended the empress by his sermons against the worldliness and frivolity of the court, with open allusions to herself, ...