Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People, Volume 9J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1883 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... employed in garden husbandry for sowing the seeds of kitchen vegetables ; but in the more extensive operations of the farm , it has been very much superseded by the use of sowing - machines of various kinds the broadcast sowing ...
... employed in garden husbandry for sowing the seeds of kitchen vegetables ; but in the more extensive operations of the farm , it has been very much superseded by the use of sowing - machines of various kinds the broadcast sowing ...
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... employed to counteract crown , and confirmed by the royal approbation irregular or inordinate muscular action are termed given in the House of Lords . A similar office seems antispasmodics ; but spasm may depend upon so to have existed ...
... employed to counteract crown , and confirmed by the royal approbation irregular or inordinate muscular action are termed given in the House of Lords . A similar office seems antispasmodics ; but spasm may depend upon so to have existed ...
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... employed , is to set the prism about half - way between the shutter and the screen , and to place before it a lens ... employing a telescope to examine the spectrum . The refracted rays are received directly on the object - glass of the ...
... employed , is to set the prism about half - way between the shutter and the screen , and to place before it a lens ... employing a telescope to examine the spectrum . The refracted rays are received directly on the object - glass of the ...
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... employ their webs in order to catch their insect prey , whilst others depend for the capture of their prey on their powers ... employed for the cross - wires of astronomical telescopes . Textile fabrics have been made of it . but only as ...
... employ their webs in order to catch their insect prey , whilst others depend for the capture of their prey on their powers ... employed for the cross - wires of astronomical telescopes . Textile fabrics have been made of it . but only as ...
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... employed in making beer , spirits , and importing foreign wines and spirits is $ 392,000,000 . SPIRIT DUCK . See ... employ for the good of his fellow . creatures ; and he began , with Levingston as his companion and guardian , a round ...
... employed in making beer , spirits , and importing foreign wines and spirits is $ 392,000,000 . SPIRIT DUCK . See ... employ for the good of his fellow . creatures ; and he began , with Levingston as his companion and guardian , a round ...
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