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TRAP-BALL, or KNUR AND SPELL (M. Eng. knurre, knot; Dan. spil, spindle), an old English game, which can be traced back to the beginning of the i4th century, and was commonly played in northern England as late as 1825, but has since been practically confined to ...

VENUS'S FLY-TRAP (Dionaea muscipula), a remarkable insectivorous plant, a native of North and South Carolina, first described in 1768 by the American botanist Ellis, in a letter to Linnaeus, in which he gave a substantially correct account of the structure and ...

... ed with twenty-five seats. It is clear, however, from the figures of the second ballots that these successes owed far more to the tendencies of the party in the field of general politics than to its antiSemitism. Indeed the specifically anti-Semitic movement h ...

... poral bone into the cranial cavity. It gives off an ophthalmic branch to the eyeball and other contents of the orbit, and then divides into the anterior and middle cerebral arteries. The middle cerebral artery extends outward into the Sylvian fissure of the br ...

... oposed in the same letter, viz. to attach to the end of each wire a small light ball which when charged would be attracted towards an adjacent bell and strike it. Some twenty years later G. L. Le Sage proposed a similar method, in which each conductor was to b ...

... ncredible sums on the dresses and scenery for the representation of the Italian ballet; and in the middle of the i7th century the regular opera was introduced at Paris. At the end of the i8th century the theatres of San Carlo at Naples, La Scala at Milan, and ...

... n third of which is broadly eroded along a belt of red Triassic sandstones with trap ridges. But in general the dissection of the New England upland is as irregular as is the distribution of the surmounting monadnocks. The type of this class of forms is Mt Mon ...

... aid a property tax during the preceding year may vote. A form of the Australian ballot with party columns is provided at public expense. As in so many of the newer Western states, the constitution specifies minutely many details which in the older instruments ...

... sovino, and destroyed at the beginning of the igth century to make room for the ball-room built by Napoleon for Eugene Beauharnais. The churches of San Giorgio c"ore"esMaggiore and of the Redentore, a votive church for liberation from the plague, are both by P ...

... n the tanning of leather. The mulundo bears a fruit about the size of a cricket ball covered with a hard green shell and containing scarlet pips like a pomegranate. The fauna includes the lion, leopard, cheetah, elephant, giraffe, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, buf ...

... ovince of Saxony). The western or smaller portion (the to-called Upper Duchy or Ballcnstedl) U alto enclosed by the two Utter districts and, (or a distance o( s «• on the wett, by the duchy of Brunswick. The western portion of the territory U undulating and in ...

... pedition; it seems, however, to be regarded as the messenger of the supreme god Balli Penyalong. The Kayans have a hawk-god, Laki Neho, but seem to regard the hawk as the servant of the chief god, Laki Tenangan. Singalang Burong, the hawk-god of the Dyaks, is ...

... 67). From the latter Padre Martini has taken two specimens for his Saggio di Contrapunto. A mas* from the Primo Libra di Messe on the canto fermo of the hymn Conditor alme sidrrum is published in modern notation in the Antkologie des mattres religieux primilif ...

... f its peculiar and forbidding appearance and its skilful and unique manner of entrapping prey by means of a pitfall. The abdomen is oval, sandy-grey in hue and beset with warts and bristles; the pro thorax forms a mobile neck for the large square head, which c ...

... artan soldier and diplomatist. In 393 (or 392 B.C.) he was sent to Tiribazus, satrap of Sardis, to undermine the friendly relations then existing between Athens and Persia by offering to recognize Persian claims to the whole of Asia Minor. The Athenians sent a ...

... which may be mentioned on the north Portrush (with well-known golf links), Port Ballintrae and Ballycastle; on the east Cushendun, Cushendall and Milltown on Red Bay, Cam Lough and Glcnarm, Larne, and Whitehead on Belfast Lough. All are somewhat exposed to the ...

... stals several inches across, were found, with flesh-red stilbite, in the Deccan traps of the Western Ghats, near Bombay, during the construction of the Great Indian Peninsular railway. Groups of crystals of a beautiful pink colour have been found in the silver ...

... 50), English scholar, but more famous as the murderer celebrated by Hood in his ballad, the Dream of Eugene Aram, and by Bulwcr Lytton in his romance of Eugene Aram, was born of humble parents at Ramsgill, Yorkshire, in 1704. He received little education at sc ...

... se on the Inchcape Rock, 1 2 m. south-east of Arbroath, celebrated in Southey's ballad. The principal public buildings are the town-hall, a somewhat ornate market house, the gildhall. the public hall, the infirmary, the antiquarian museum (including some valua ...

... l, on the east, and the fertile Guadalete valley, celebrated in ancient Spanish ballads for its horses. At the highest point of the ridge is a Gothic church with a fine gateway, and a modern tower overlooking the town. The fame of its ten bells dates from the ...

... sword " against the royalists in Atholl and Angus, which, after succeeding in entrapping the earl of Atholl, he carried out with completeness and some cruelty. It was on this occasion that took place the burning of " the bonnie house of Airlie." By this time t ...

... Sunart, the Sound of Mull and Loch Linnhe; Appin, on Loch Linnhe, with piers at Ballachulish and Port Appin; Benderloch, lying between Loch Creran and Loch Etive; Lome, surrounding Loch Etive and giving the title of marquess to the Campbells; Argyll, in the mi ...

... oa). The former are immediately enumerated as probabilities (tlxora), examples (Trapaotiynara), proof s(r«/i^pta), considerations (ivOviainara.) , maxims (•ywi/iat), signs (oTifttia.), refutations (i\ty\oi); the latter as opinion of the speaker (5o£a roD Xryoi ...

... of the same genus are remarkable for their power of rolling themselves up into balls. For the distinctive characters of these and the other genera see EDENTATA.

... into five districts. Assizes are held at Armagh, and quarter sessions at Annagh.Ballybot, Lurgan, Markethill and Newtown-Hamilton. The parliamentary divisions are three: mid, north and south, each returning one member. History and Antiquities. — Armagh, togeth ...

... l barrel; it was loaded at the breech; it was rifled; and it threw, not a round ball, but an elongated projectile with ogival head. The guns constructed on this principle yielded such excellent results, both in range and accuracy, that they were adopted by the ...

... e is buried. ARNDT, JOHANN (1555-1621), German Lutheran theologian, was born at Ballenstedt, in Anhalt, and studied in several universities. He was at Helmstadt in 1576; at Wittenberg in 1577. At Wittenberg the crypto-Calvinist controversy was then at its heig ...

... very poor translation of Metastasio's Arlaserse. In 1762 also was produced the balladopera Love in a Cottage. His oratorio Judith, of which the first performance was on the 27th of February 1761 at Drury Lane, was revived at the chapel of the Lock hospital, P ...

... is brother, overwhelmed and killed Artabanus and his sons in open fight. 3. A satrap of Bactria, who revolted against Artaxerxes I., but was defeated in two battles (Ctes. Pers. 31). The name was borne also by four Parthian kings. The Parthian king Arsaces, wh ...

ARTAPHERNES. more correctly ARTAPHRENES, brother of Darius Hystaspis, and satrap of Sardis. It was he who received the embassy from Athens sent probably by Cleisthenes (^.r.) in 507 B.C., and subsequently warned the Athenians to receive back the " tyrant " Hip ...

... his rule was interrupted by several insurrections. At the very beginning the satrap Artabanus raised a rebellion in Bactria, but was defeated in two battles. More dangerous was the rebellion of Egypt under Inarus (Inaros), which was put down by Mcgabyzus only ...

... dia Old and New, 1001, p. 31) the Rig Veda was composed in the district about Umballa. He argues that the people must have been then to the west of the great rivers, otherwise the dawn could not be addressed as one who " in shining light, before the wind arise ...

... of cement*, plasters and paints: it is used fur packing safes; and is made into balls with fire-clay for gasstoves. Various preparations of asbestos with other materials pus in trade under such names as uralite, salamandrite, asbcstolith, gypsine, &c. "Asbesti ...

... age bears witness from the 5th century B.C. onwards. There Alcibiades met the satrap Tissaphernes in 411 B.C., and thence succeeded in getting the Phoenician fleet, intended to co-operate with Sparta, sent back home. The Athenian, Thrasybulus, after obtaining ...

... Arctino, surnamed Jbe divine, both likewise engaged astrologers to fight their ball In Italy those who prophesied the ruin of France were sure to I listened to. These prophecies affected the public funds as telegrams do nowadays. " At Rome," Montaigne tells u ...

... shape of the Satur- H ^ nian appendages, and of the multiple character of the " trapezium " of stars in the Orion nebula. William Gascoigne's invention of the filar micrometer and of the adaptation of telescopes to graduated instruments remained ^^_ submerged ...

... us (Herod, i. 1 30), and according to Ctesias (Pets. 5, cf. Justin i. 6) made satrap of Hyrcania, where he was afterwards slain by Ocbares against the will of Cyrus, who gave him a splendid funeral. Alexander Polyhistor and Abydenus in their excerpts from Bero ...

... rs were naked, having their bodies salved with oil. Boxers wore the caestus, a strap of leather round the wrists and forearms, with a piece of metal in the fist, which was sometimes employed with great barbarity. An athlete could begin his career as a boy in t ...

... d themselves to the chase and to the joust, while the people had their games of ball, running at the quintain, fencing with club and buckler, wrestling and other pastimes on green and river. The chroniclers of the succeeding centuries are for the most part sil ...

... provinces into which the colony was divided from 1853 to 1876. He repealed the Ballance land-tax in 1870, and substituted a property-tax. He greatly reduced the cost of the public service in 1880, and again in 1888. In both these years he raised the customs d ...