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A worm-like marine animal, regarded by the zoologist as a possible connecting link between invertebrates and vertebrates.
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A vegetable gum used as a substitute for gutta-percha, being at once ductile and elastic; goes under the name of bully.
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A Castilian noble, established a settlement at Darien; discovered the Pacific; took possession of territory in the name of Spain; put to death by a new governor, from jealousy of the glory he had acquired and the consequent influence in the State (1475-1517).
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A tent-like covering or canopy over portals, altars, or thrones, either supported on columns, suspended from the roof, or projecting from the wall.
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The sun-god of the Norse mythology, "the beautiful, the wise, the benignant," who is fated to die, and dies, in spite of, and to the grief of, all the gods of the pantheon, a pathetic symbol conceived in the Norse imagination of how all things in heaven, as on earth, are subject in the long-run to mortality.
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An ornamental belt worn hanging over the shoulder, across the body diagonally, with a sword, dagger, or horn suspended from it.
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A group of five islands off the coast of Valencia, in Spain, Majorca the largest; inhabitants in ancient times famous as expert slingers, having been one and all systematically trained to the use of the sling from early childhood; cap. Palma.
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One of the Samoa Islands, 75 m. long by 40 m. broad; produces cotton, coffee, and tobacco.
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Or Belize, the capital of British Honduras, in Central America; trade in mahogany, rosewood, etc.
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