American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ; Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 3Mitchell, Ames and White, 1819 - Natural history |
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... tube . The herb grows black in drying . It is a native of Virginia and Canada . B. cernua , drooping buchnera , is a shrub half a foot in height , branching regularly ; a little jointed from the scars left by the leaves ; purplish ...
... tube . The herb grows black in drying . It is a native of Virginia and Canada . B. cernua , drooping buchnera , is a shrub half a foot in height , branching regularly ; a little jointed from the scars left by the leaves ; purplish ...
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... tube made of different metals , principally of silver and lead , but sometimes of iron . CANOE , a small boat , made of the trunk of a tree , bored hollow , and some- times also of pieces of bark , sewed toge- ther . It is used by the ...
... tube made of different metals , principally of silver and lead , but sometimes of iron . CANOE , a small boat , made of the trunk of a tree , bored hollow , and some- times also of pieces of bark , sewed toge- ther . It is used by the ...
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... tube , and four - parted border ; the mouth downy ; drupe two - celled , with a one- celled nut in each . One species , C. par- viflorum , found in Coromandel . CANTICLES , or the Song of Songs , in biblical history , a Hebrew mode of ...
... tube , and four - parted border ; the mouth downy ; drupe two - celled , with a one- celled nut in each . One species , C. par- viflorum , found in Coromandel . CANTICLES , or the Song of Songs , in biblical history , a Hebrew mode of ...
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... Tubes for conveying gases , and other chemical instruments , are accordingly prepared from it ; and bougies , catheters , and similar surgical instruments of ca- outchouc , are much preferable to what can be prepared from any other sub ...
... Tubes for conveying gases , and other chemical instruments , are accordingly prepared from it ; and bougies , catheters , and similar surgical instruments of ca- outchouc , are much preferable to what can be prepared from any other sub ...
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... tubes , is a phenomenon that has long em- barrassed philosophers ; for let one end of a glass tube , open at both ends , be im- merged in water , and the liquor within the tube will rise to some sensible height above the external ...
... tubes , is a phenomenon that has long em- barrassed philosophers ; for let one end of a glass tube , open at both ends , be im- merged in water , and the liquor within the tube will rise to some sensible height above the external ...
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