British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 5Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1819 - Natural history |
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... head smooth , edges of the jaws and palate rough , with teeth ; gill membrane with thirty rays , and armed on the outside in the middle with five teeth . The saury elops , the only species , bears a considerable resemblance to a salmon ...
... head smooth , edges of the jaws and palate rough , with teeth ; gill membrane with thirty rays , and armed on the outside in the middle with five teeth . The saury elops , the only species , bears a considerable resemblance to a salmon ...
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... head bunting , see Aves , Plate VI . fig . 5 . EMBEZZLEMENT , in law , by stat . 39 Geo . 3. c . 35. for protecting masters against embezzlement by their clerks and servants : servants or clerks , or per- sons employed for the purpose ...
... head bunting , see Aves , Plate VI . fig . 5 . EMBEZZLEMENT , in law , by stat . 39 Geo . 3. c . 35. for protecting masters against embezzlement by their clerks and servants : servants or clerks , or per- sons employed for the purpose ...
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... head made in this man ner , and a painting of two roses , the one baked , and the other in its first state . There ... heads , tweczer - cases , or the like . It is per- formed by punching or driving out the metal , to form the figure ...
... head made in this man ner , and a painting of two roses , the one baked , and the other in its first state . There ... heads , tweczer - cases , or the like . It is per- formed by punching or driving out the metal , to form the figure ...
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... head to the place of its delivery , to run off by an adit at S , through a fall of 34- fathoms in the whole ; that is to say , in a close pipe down the slope of a hill 200 fathoms long , with 26 fathoms fall ; then perpendicularly six ...
... head to the place of its delivery , to run off by an adit at S , through a fall of 34- fathoms in the whole ; that is to say , in a close pipe down the slope of a hill 200 fathoms long , with 26 fathoms fall ; then perpendicularly six ...
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... head with a fly , to prevent the horse's falling when the ram is discharged ; C , the drum on which the great rope is wound ; D the follower ( with a roller at one corner ) in which are contained the tongs , to take hold of the ram ...
... head with a fly , to prevent the horse's falling when the ram is discharged ; C , the drum on which the great rope is wound ; D the follower ( with a roller at one corner ) in which are contained the tongs , to take hold of the ram ...
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