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 9Mitchell, Ames and White, 1821 - Natural history |
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... animals which they infest : thus we have O. bovis , O. equi , O. ovis , O. homi- nis , & c . The principal European ... animal's back . The pain which this ope- ration occasions is extreme ; and hence cattle , as if foreseeing their ...
... animals which they infest : thus we have O. bovis , O. equi , O. ovis , O. homi- nis , & c . The principal European ... animal's back . The pain which this ope- ration occasions is extreme ; and hence cattle , as if foreseeing their ...
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... animal , they have the dreadful ordeal of the teeth and mastication to pass through . On their arrival at the stomach , they may pass mixed with the mass of food into the intestines ; and when full grown , in drop- ping from the animal ...
... animal , they have the dreadful ordeal of the teeth and mastication to pass through . On their arrival at the stomach , they may pass mixed with the mass of food into the intestines ; and when full grown , in drop- ping from the animal ...
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... yield it in greatest abundance are , the olive , thence called olive oil ; the seeds of lint , and the kernels of almonds , called linseed , or almond oil . Fixed oils are also obtained from animals ; such as train oil OFF OIL.
... yield it in greatest abundance are , the olive , thence called olive oil ; the seeds of lint , and the kernels of almonds , called linseed , or almond oil . Fixed oils are also obtained from animals ; such as train oil OFF OIL.
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... animals ; such as train oil , as it is called , which is extract- ed from the fat or blubber of the whale . Fixed oil ... animal oils , on the contrary , are generally extremely nauseous and offensive . These differences are supposed to ...
... animals ; such as train oil , as it is called , which is extract- ed from the fat or blubber of the whale . Fixed oil ... animal oils , on the contrary , are generally extremely nauseous and offensive . These differences are supposed to ...
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... animal is in motion is perpetually changing its form and size , and drawn in when at rest ; mouth placed lengthwise , and continually varying its shape from circular to linear : feelers re- tractile , resembling those of the slug , and ...
... animal is in motion is perpetually changing its form and size , and drawn in when at rest ; mouth placed lengthwise , and continually varying its shape from circular to linear : feelers re- tractile , resembling those of the slug , and ...
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