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(Encyclopedia) catfish, common name applied to members of the fish families constituting the order Siluriformes, found in fresh and coastal waters. Catfish are named for the barbels (“whiskers”)…
(Encyclopedia) circus [Lat.,=ring, circle], historically, the arena associated with the horse and chariot races and athletic contests known in ancient Rome as the Circensian games. The Roman circus…
(Encyclopedia) Edwards, Jonathan, 1703–58, American theologian and metaphysician, b. East Windsor (then in Windsor), Conn. He was a precocious child, early interested in things scientific,…
Giving her a certain number of eggs to hatch. The whole number for incubation is called a setting. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Setting a SawSethites A…
(The). In the Phoenician, Egyptian, Hindu, and Japanese systems, it is represented that the world was hatched from an egg. In some mythologies a bird is represented as laying the mundane…
(St.). The devil, assigned by legend to St. Martin for a running footman on a certain occasion. “Who can tell but St. Martin's running footman may still be hatching us some further…
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