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(Encyclopedia) carbuncle, acute inflammatory nodule of the skin caused by bacterial invasion into the hair follicles or sebaceous gland ducts. It is actually a boil, but one that has more than one focus of infection...

(Encyclopedia) Celsus, Aulus Cornelius, fl. a.d. 14, Latin encyclopedist. His only extant work, De re medicina, consists of eight books on medicine believed to have been written c.a.d. 30. He was not esteemed as a s...

(Encyclopedia) Chiclayo chēkläˈyō [key], city, capital of Lambayeque dept., NW Peru. On the coastal desert ...

(Encyclopedia) Chilon kīˈlŏn [key], 6th cent. b.c., one of the Seven Wise Men of Greece. He was a Spartan and brought greater strictness to Spartan training. As an ephor (c.556 b.c.) he strengthened the power of ...

(Encyclopedia) chord, in music, two or more simultaneously sounding pitches. In tonal music the fundamental chord is called the triad. It consists of three pitches, two a perfect fifth apart and a third pitch a majo...

(Encyclopedia) Cibber or Cibert, Caius Gabriel both: sĭbˈər [key], 1630–1700, Danish-English sculptor. Cibber was appointed carver to the king's closet for his services to William III of England. He worked for ...

(Encyclopedia) Hopkins, William, 1793–1866, English geologist. Hopkins studied mathematics at Cambridge, and then supported himself as a private mathematics tutor. Many of England's best mathematicians and mathema...

(Encyclopedia) Hundred Days, name given to the period after the return of the deposed French emperor, Napoleon I, from Elba. The Hundred Days are counted from Mar. 20, 1815, when Napoleon arrived in Paris, to June 2...

(Encyclopedia) Cornwall, Barry, pseud. of Bryan Waller Procter, 1787–1874, English author. His sentimental songs were much in vogue during his lifetime. Included among Cornwall's longer works are Dramatic Scenes (...

(Encyclopedia) Feijoo, Benito Jerónimo: bānēˈtō hārōˈnēmō fāēhōˈō [key], 1676–1764, Spanish Benedictine scholar and critic, abbot at Oviedo, Asturias. Feijoo led in bringing the Enlightenment to Spa...