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... short . It also signifies any bird of prey , as a falcon , sparrow - hawk , & c . - The hawk was considered by the Greeks an unlucky bird , and to predict death , if seen in the act of seizing its prey . You may call a buzzard τpiopxns ...
... short . It also signifies any bird of prey , as a falcon , sparrow - hawk , & c . - The hawk was considered by the Greeks an unlucky bird , and to predict death , if seen in the act of seizing its prey . You may call a buzzard τpiopxns ...
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... Καλαμίνθη , ης . Γ . * From ανεμος , the wind ; the wind - flower . Class XIV . Didynamia ; stamina four — two long and two short . This word is of Hebrew origin . Water - Cress CLASS XV . Καρδάμον , ου . 40 VEGETABLES .
... Καλαμίνθη , ης . Γ . * From ανεμος , the wind ; the wind - flower . Class XIV . Didynamia ; stamina four — two long and two short . This word is of Hebrew origin . Water - Cress CLASS XV . Καρδάμον , ου . 40 VEGETABLES .
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... short . * The Romans knew well the several uses of turnip ; cattle were fed on their roots in the winter season in Gaul , at the time of Columella , a practice not long known in Britain . Class XVI . Monadelphia ; stamina united in the ...
... short . * The Romans knew well the several uses of turnip ; cattle were fed on their roots in the winter season in Gaul , at the time of Columella , a practice not long known in Britain . Class XVI . Monadelphia ; stamina united in the ...
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... bolt . + A stair is αναβαθμος . f . Ήλος , ου . Μ . Πασσάλος , ου . Μ . Σανις , ιδος . f . The penult of novia is generally long in the singular , and short in the plural . WAR . War Peace Warfare An Enemy An Army A 96 PARTS OF A HOUSE .
... bolt . + A stair is αναβαθμος . f . Ήλος , ου . Μ . Πασσάλος , ου . Μ . Σανις , ιδος . f . The penult of novia is generally long in the singular , and short in the plural . WAR . War Peace Warfare An Enemy An Army A 96 PARTS OF A HOUSE .
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... short space of two months , they are said to have equipped a fleet of a hundred galleys of five banks of oars , and twenty of three banks . Their mode of engaging was at a distance with javelins , missile combustibles , and sometimes ...
... short space of two months , they are said to have equipped a fleet of a hundred galleys of five banks of oars , and twenty of three banks . Their mode of engaging was at a distance with javelins , missile combustibles , and sometimes ...
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Page 34 - ... the pericarpium or seed-vessel, the seed or fruit, and the receptaculum receptacle or base. The calyx is that outer part of the flower, formed of one or more greenish leaves, sustaining the corolla at the bottom. The stamina or chives are composed of two parts, one long and thin, by which they are...
Page 35 - ALL the known vegetable productions, upon the surface of the globe, have been reduced by naturalists to Classes, Orders, Genera, Species, and Varieties. The classes are composed of orders ; the orders of genera ; the genera of species; and the species of varieties. We may attain a clearer idea of them, by comparing them with the general divisions of the inhabitants of the earth. Vegetables resemble Man ; Classes, nations of men ; Orders, tribes, or divisions of nations ; Genera, the families that...
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Page 34 - The stamina or chives are composed of two parts, one long and thin, by which they are fastened to the bottom of the corolla, called the filament ; the other thicker, placed at the top of the filament, called anthera or anther, a kind of box which opens when ripe, and throws out a small yellow dust, called pollen or farina.