< Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition
Volume VI
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  • Coal.
  • Coanza, river, Africa.
  • Coatbridge, town, Scotland.
  • Cobalt, chemical element.
  • Coban, town, Central America.
  • Cobbett, William, English political writer.
  • Cobden, Richard, English politician.
  • Cobija, town, Bolivia.
  • Coblentz, town, Prussia.
  • Cobra, genus of snakes.
  • Coburg, town, Germany.
  • Coca, plant (Cuca, q.v.).
  • Cocceius, Johannes, Dutch theologian.
  • Cochabamba, town, Bolivia.
  • Cochin, state, India.
  • Cochin China, country, Asia.
  • Cochineal, dyestuff.
  • Cockatoo, bird.
  • Cockatrice, fabulous animal.
  • Cockburn, Mrs Alison, Scottish ballad-writer.
  • Cockburn, Sir George, British admiral.
  • Cockburn, Lord, Scottish judge.
  • Cocker, Edward, English arithmetician.
  • Cockerell, Charles Robert, English architect.
  • Cockermouth, town, England.
  • Cockle, mollusc.
  • Cockroach, insect.
  • Cocles, Horatius, Roman hero.
  • Cocoa, or Cacao, tree and fruit.
  • Cocoa-Nut Palm.
  • Cocytus, river & legendary river, Greece.
  • Cod, fish.
  • Cod-Liver Oil.
  • Code, body of laws.
  • Codogno, town, Italy.
  • Codrington, Sir Edward, British admiral.
  • Codrus, king of Athens.
  • Coehorn, Menno, Baron van, Dutch military engineer.
  • Cœlentera, or Cœlenterata, group of animals.
  • Coello, Alonso Sanchez, Spanish painter.
  • Coen, Jan Pieterszoon, founder of Batavia, Java.
  • Cœnobia, monastic communities (See Monasticism).
  • Cœur, Jacques, early French trader and economist.
  • Coffee.
  • Coffer-Dams, in engineering.
  • Cognac, town, France.
  • Cohesion, in capillary action (See Attraction, Capillary Action, and Constitution of Bodies).
  • Cohoes, town, New York, U.S.A.
  • Coimbatore, district, India.
  • Coimbra, town, Portugal.
  • Coin, town, Spain.
  • Coinage (See Bullion, Mint, Money, and Numismatics).
  • Coir, fibre (See Cocoa-Nut Palm).
  • Coire, town, Switzerland.
  • Cojutepec, town, San Salvador.
  • Coke, fuel.
  • Coke, Sir Edward, English lawyer.
  • Colberg, town, Prussia.
  • Colbert, Jean Baptiste, French statesman.
  • Colchester, town, England.
  • Colchester, Lord, English statesman.
  • Colchicum, plant.
  • Colchis, ancient country, Caucasus.
  • Coldstream, town, Scotland.
  • Colebrooke, Henry Thomas, English Orientalist.
  • Coleoptera, order of insects.
  • Coleraine, town, Ireland.
  • Coleridge, Hartley, English writer.
  • Coleridge, Sir John Taylor, English lawyer and critic.
  • Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, English poet.
  • Colet, John, dean of St Paul's, London.
  • Colet, Louise Revoil, French poetess and novelist.
  • Colic, disease.
  • Coligni, or Coligny, Gaspard de, admiral of France.
  • Colima, town, Mexico.
  • Colin, Alexander, Flemish sculptor.
  • Collaert, Hans, Flemish engraver.
  • Collé, Charles, French dramatist.
  • Colle, Rafaelle del, Italian painter.
  • College.
  • Collier, Arthur, English metaphysician.
  • Collier, Jeremy, English divine.
  • Collingwood, Lord, English admiral.
  • Collins, Anthony, English philosopher.
  • Collins, Mortimer, English poet.
  • Collins, William, English poet.
  • Collins, William, English painter.
  • Collodion, its composition and uses.
  • Collot d'Herbois, Jean Marie, French Revolutionist.
  • Colman, George, the Elder, English dramatist.
  • Colman, George, the Younger, English dramatist.
  • Colmar, town, German Alsace.
  • Colne, town, England.
  • Colocynth, plant and drug.
  • Cologna, town, Italy.
  • Cologne, town, Rhenish Prussia.
  • Colombia, United States of, South America.
  • Colombo, town, Ceylon.
  • Colon, town, Panama (Aspinwall, q.v.).
  • Colonna, Giovanni Paolo, Italian composer.
  • Colonna, Vittoria, Neapolitan princess and poetess.
  • Colony, Colonies.
  • Colophon, ancient town, Asia Minor.
  • Colorado, State, U.S.A.
  • Colorado River, U.S.A.
  • Colossae, ancient town, Asia Minor.
  • Colosseum, amphitheatre at Rome (See Amphitheatre, Architecture, and Rome).
  • Colossians, The Epistle to the.
  • Colossus, statue at Rhodes.
  • Colour, Sensations of (See Light and Optics).
  • Colston, Edward, English merchant.
  • Colt, Samuel, inventor of the revolver.
  • Columba, Celtic saint.
  • Columbanus, Irish monk.
  • Columbia, town, South Carolina, U.S.A.
  • Columbia, District of, U.S.A.
  • Columbia, British, North America.
  • Columbus, town, Ohio, U.S.A.
  • Columbus, town, Georgia, U.S.A.
  • Columbus, Christopher, discoverer of America.
  • Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus, Roman writer on agriculture.
  • Colza Oil.
  • Comacchio, town, Italy.
  • Comana, or Chryse, ancient town, Cappadocia, Asia Minor.
  • Comana, ancient town, Pontus, Asia Minor.
  • Comanches, North-American Indians.
  • Comayagua, town, Honduras.
  • Comb.
  • Combaconum, town, India.
  • Combe, Andrew, Scottish physiologist.
  • Combe, George, Scottish physiologist.
  • Combe, William, English writer.
  • Combermere, Viscount.
  • Combinations, among workmen.
  • Comedy (See Drama).
  • Comenius, or Komensky, Johann Amos, Moravian educationist.
  • Comets.
  • Comines, town, France.
  • Comines, Philippe de, French historian.
  • Comitan, or Comitlan, town, Mexico.
  • Comitia, of ancient Rome.
  • Commerce.
  • Commercy, town, France.
  • Commodus, Lucius Aurelius, Roman emperor.
  • Common Law.
  • Common Pleas, Court of, England.
  • Common Prayer, Book of, Church of England (See Liturgy).
  • Commons, waste lands.
  • Commons, House of (See Parliament).
  • Commune, administrative division, in France.
  • Communism.
  • Como, town, Italy.
  • Como, Lake of, Italy.
  • Comonfort, Ignacio, Mexican soldier and politician.
  • Comores, or Comoro Islands, East Africa.
  • Company, corporate association.
  • Comparative Anatomy.
  • Compass, Mariner's.
  • Compiègne, town, France.
  • Compostella (Santiago), town, Spain.
  • Compton, Henry, bishop of London.
  • Comte, Auguste, French philosopher.
  • Comus, in Greek mythology.
  • Conca, Sebastiano, Italian painter.
  • Concan, district, India.
  • Concepcion, town, Chili.
  • Conclave, meeting for election of a pope.
  • Concord, town, New Hampshire, U.S.A.
  • Concord, town, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
  • Concordance, verbal index.
  • Concordat, papal agreement.
  • Concordia, Roman goddess.
  • Concordia, town, Italy.
  • Concrete, substitute for stone.
  • Concubinage.
  • Condamine, Charles Marie de la, French geographer and mathematician (La Condamine, Charles Marie de, q.v.).
  • Condé, town, France.
  • Condé-sur-Noireau, town, France.
  • Condé, Princes of, France.
  • Condé, Louis de Bourbon, Prince of.
  • Condé, Louis, Prince of (Condé the Great).
  • Condé, Louis Henry Joseph, duke of Bourbon.
  • Conde, José Antonio, Spanish Orientalist.
  • Conder, Josiah, English writer.
  • Condillac, Étienne Bonnot de, French philosopher.
  • Condom, town, France.
  • Condor, bird.
  • Condorcet, Marquis de, French philosopher and politician.
  • Condottieri, Italian mercenary troops.
  • Conecte, Thomas, French monk and preacher.
  • Conegliano, town, Italy.
  • Conferreatio, form of Roman marriage.
  • Confectionery.
  • Confession, of sin.
  • Confirmation, ecclesiastical rite.
  • Confucius, Chinese sage.
  • Congé d'Élire, mandate for election of a bishop.
  • Conger-Eel, fish (Eel, q.v.).
  • Congleton, town, England.
  • Congleton, Lord, chancellor of Irish exchequer.
  • Congo, country, West Africa.
  • Congregationalists, religious denomination.
  • Congress, in diplomacy.
  • Congreve, William, English dramatist.
  • Congreve, Sir William, inventor of the rocket.
  • Coni, town, Italy.
  • Conic Sections, or Conics.
    • Part I.—The Parabola.
    • ...
  • Conington, John, English scholar.
  • Conjeveram, town, India.
  • Connaught, province, Ireland.
  • Connecticut, State, U.S.A.
  • Connemara, district, Ireland.
  • Connor, Bernard, English physiologist.
  • Conolly, John, English physician.
  • Conon, Athenian general.
  • Conrad, kings & emperors (See Germany).
  • Conradin, king of Sicily.
  • Conrart, Valentin, first secretary of the French Academy.
  • Consalvi, Ercole, Italian cardinal and statesman.
  • Consanguinity, or Kindred.
  • Conscription, Military (See Army).
  • Consecration.
  • Conservatory, or Conservatoire, Musical.
  • Consistory, ecclesiastical council.
  • Consolidation Acts, English.
  • Conspiracy, in law.
  • Constable, officer of the peace.
  • Constable, Archibald, Scottish publisher.
  • Constable, Henry, English poet.
  • Constable, John, English painter.
  • Constance, town, Baden, Germany.
  • Constance, Lake of, Switzerland.
  • Constant de Rebecque, Henri Benjamin, French philosopher and economist.
  • Constantine, town, Algeria.
  • Constantine, Roman & Greek emperors (See Roman History and Greek Empire).
  • Constantine I., the Great, Roman emperor.
  • Constantine, emperor of Gaul, Spain, and Britain.
  • Constantine VII. (Porphyrogenitus), Byzantine emperor.
  • Constantine Pavlovich, Russian prince.
  • Constantinople, capital of Turkey.
  • Constantinus Cephalas, compiler of an anthology (See Anthology).
  • Constantius I., Flavius Valerius, Roman Emperor.
  • Constitution, and Constitutional Law.
  • Constitution of Bodies.
  • Consuegra, town, Spain.
  • Consul, Roman magistrate.
  • Consul, commercial and legal officer in foreign country.
  • Consulate of the Sea, Book of the.
  • Consumption, pulmonary disease (Phthisis, q.v.).
  • Contempt of Court, offense.
  • Conti, Prince of (Armand de Bourbon).
  • Contraband.
  • Contract, in law.
  • Conversano, town, Italy.
  • Conveyancing, in law.
  • Convocation, of Church of England.
  • Conway, town, Wales.
  • Conybeare, John, English divine.
  • Conybeare, William Daniel, English geologist.
  • Cook, Captain James, English navigator and explorer.
  • Cook's Islands, or Harley Archipelago, South Pacific.
  • Cookery.
  • Coolie, or Cooly, Asiatic labourer.
  • Coomassie, capital of Ashantee, West Africa.
  • Cooper, Abraham, English painter.
  • Cooper, Anthony Ashley, three earls of Shaftesbury (Shaftesbury, q.v.).
  • Cooper, Sir Astley Paston, English surgeon.
  • Cooper, Charles Henry, English historiographer.
  • Cooper, James Fenimore, American novelist.
  • Cooperage, handicraft.
  • Co-operation.
  • Coorg, province, India.
  • Coot, water-fowl.
  • Coote, Sir Eyre, British general.
  • Copaiba, Balsam of (See Balsam).
  • Copal, resin.
  • Copan, town, Honduras.
  • Copenhagen, capital of Denmark.
  • Copernicus, Nicolaus, German astronomer.
  • Copiapo, town, Chili.
  • Copley, John Singleton, historical painter.
  • Copper, metal, chemical element.
  • Copperas, mineral.
  • Coprolites, Fossil.
  • Copts, Egyptian people.
  • Coptos, ancient town, Egypt.
  • Copyhold, land tenure.
  • Copyright.
  • Coquerel, Athanase Josué, French Protestant theologian.
  • Coquerel, Athanase Laurent Charles, French Protestant theologian.
  • Coques, Gonzalez, Flemish painter.
  • Cora (Cori), ancient town, Italy.
  • Corals, or Coral Animals.
  • Coram, Thomas, English philanthropist.
  • Corbeil, in architecture.
  • Corcyra, island, Greece (Corfu, q.v.).
  • Corday d'Armans, Marie-Anne-Charlotte, assassin of Marat.
  • Cordeliers, Franciscan monks.
  • Corderius (Mathurin Cordier), French writer.
  • Cordova, town, Spain.
  • Cordova, or Cordoba, town, Argentine Republic.
  • Cordova, town, Mexico.
  • Corea, kingdom, Asia.
  • Corelli, Arcangelo, Italian musical composer.
  • Corenzio, Belisario, Greek Neapolitan painter.
  • Corfu, island & town, Greece.
  • Coriander, plant and fruit.
  • Corigliano, town, Italy.
  • Coringa, town, India.
  • Corinna, Greek poetess.
  • Corinth, town, ancient Greece.
  • Corinthians, Epistles to the.
  • Coriolanus, Caius Marcus, Roman patrician.
  • Corioli, ancient town, Italy.
  • Cork, bark of tree.
  • Cork, county & town, Ireland.
  • Cork, Earls of (Boyle, q.v.).
  • Corleone, town, Italy.
  • Cormenin, Vicomte de, French jurist.
  • Cormontaigne, Louis de, French military engineer.
  • Cormorant, bird.
  • Corn Laws, English.
  • Corn Trade, British.
  • Cornaro, Luigi, Italian writer.
  • Corneille, Pierre, French dramatist.
  • Corneille, Thomas, French dramatist.
  • Cornelius, Peter von, German painter.
  • Corneto, town, Italy.
  • Cornhert, Theodore, Dutch writer.
  • Cornutus, L. Annæus, Roman Stoic philosopher.
  • Cornwall, county, England.
  • Cornwall, Barry (Procter, q.v.).
  • Cornwallis, First Marquis, British general.
  • Coro, town, Venezuela.
  • Coromandel Coast, India.
  • Corona, envelope of the sun.
  • Coronation.
  • Coronelli, Vincenzio, Italian geographer.
  • Coroner, officer of the law.
  • Corot, Jean Baptiste Camille, French painter.
  • Corporation.
  • Corpulence.
  • Corpus Christi, church festival.
  • Correa da Serra, José Francisco, Portuguese politician and scientist.
  • Correggio, Antonio Allegri, Italian painter.
  • Corrèze, department, France.
  • Corrientes, town, Argentine Republic.
  • Corry, town, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
  • Corseul (See Côtes-du-Nord).
  • Corsica, island, Mediterranean.
  • Corssen, Wilhelm Paul, German philologist.
  • Cort, Cornelius, Dutch engraver.
  • Corte-Real, family of Portuguese navigators.
  • Cortes, Spanish legislature (See Spain and Portugal).
  • Cortes, Hernan, conqueror of Mexico.
  • Cortese, family of French painters (Courtois, q.v.).
  • Cortona, town, Italy.
  • Corunna, or Coruña, town, Spain.
  • Corvey, Benedictine abbey, Saxony.
  • Corvisart-Desmarets, Baron de, French physician.
  • Corvus, M. Valerius, Roman general.
  • Coryatt, Thomas, English writer.
  • Corybantes, in Greek mythology.
  • Coryphæus, leader of chorus, in Greek tragedy.
  • Cos, island, Asia Minor.
  • Cosenza, town, Italy.
  • Cosin, John, bishop of Durham.
  • Cosmas, surnamed Indicopleustes, ancient geographer.
  • Cosmas of Prague, Bohemian historian.
  • Cosmogony.
  • Cosne, town, France.
  • Cossacks, Russian tribes.
  • Costa Rica, republic, Central America.
  • Costanzo, Angelo di, Italian historian.
  • Costello, Dudley, English journalist.
  • Costello, Louisa Stuart, English writer.
  • Coster, Laurence, Dutch printer (See Roster and Printing).
  • Costs, Legal.
  • Costume.
    • Greek Costume.
    • ...
  • Cota, Rodrigo, Spanish poet.
  • Côte d'Or, department, France.
  • Cotes, Roger, English mathematician.
  • Côtes-du-Nord, department, France.
  • Cotopaxi, volcano, Ecuador.
  • Cotrone, town, Italy (Crotona, q.v.).
  • Cotta, family of German publishers.
  • Cottabus, Greek game.
  • Cottereau, Jean, French royalist (Chouans, q.v.).
  • Cottin, Sophie, French novelist.
  • Cotton.
  • Cotton, Charles, English writer.
  • Cotton, George Edward Lynch, bishop of Calcutta.
  • Cotton, Sir Robert Bruce, political writer and founder of Cottonian Library.
  • Cotys, Thracian kings.
  • Coulomb, Charles Augustin, French physicist.
  • Council, Ecclesiastical.
  • Council Bluffs, town, Iowa, U.S.A.
  • Counsel (Advocate and Barristers, q.v.).
  • Count, Countess, title.
  • County, administrative area.
  • Courayer, Pierre François le, French theologian.
  • Courier, Paul Louis, French writer.
  • Courland, province, Russia.
  • Coursing, with greyhounds.
  • Court, Courts, Judicial.
  • Court Martial.
  • Court, Antoine, French Protestant.
  • Court de Gebelin, Antoine, French scholar.
  • Courtois, Jâques and Guillaume, French painters.
  • Courtrai, town, Belgium.
  • Cousin, Victor, French philosopher.
  • Coustou, Nicholas and Guillaume, French sculptors.
  • Coutances, town, France.
  • Couthon, Georges, French Revolutionist.
  • Coutts, Thomas, English banker.
  • Covenanters, in Scottish history.
  • Coventry, town, England.
  • Coverdale, Miles, translator of English Bible.
  • Covilha, town, Portugal.
  • Covington, town, Kentucky, U.S.A.
  • Cowell, John, English jurist.
  • Cowley, Abraham, English poet.
  • Cowper, William, English poet.
  • Cowry, shell and money.
  • Cox, David, English painter.
  • Cox, Richard, bishop of Ely.
  • Coxcie, Michael, Flemish painter.
  • Coxe, William, archdeacon, English writer.
  • Coypel, family of French painters.
  • Coysevox, or Coyzevox, Charles Antoine, French sculptor.
  • Crab, crustacean.
  • Crabbe, George, English poet.
  • Cracow, town, Austrian Poland.
  • Craig, John, Scottish Reformer.
  • Craig, Sir Thomas, Scottish jurist and poet.
  • Craik, George Lillie English writer.
  • Crail, town, Scotland.
  • Crake, bird.
  • Cramp, muscular disease.
  • Cranach, Lucas, German painter and caricaturist.
  • Cranberry, plant and fruit.
  • Cranbrook, town, England.
  • Crane, bird.
  • Crane, hoisting machine.
  • Cranmer, Thomas, archbishop of Canterbury.
  • Crannogs, Celtic lake dwellings.
  • Crantor, Greek philosopher.
  • Crape, silk fabric.
  • Crashaw, Richard, English poet.
  • Crassus, Lucius Licinius, Roman orator.
  • Crassus, Marcus Licinius, Roman triumvir.
  • Crates of Athens, actor and writer of comedies.
  • Crates of Mallus, grammarian and Stoic philosopher.
  • Crates of Thebes, Cynic philosopher.
  • Cratinus, Greek comedian.
  • Cratippus, Peripatetic philosopher.
  • Cratippus, Greek historian.
  • Crauford, Quentin, English antiquary.
  • Crawford, Thomas, American sculptor.
  • Crawfurd, John, English political writer.
  • Crayer, Gaspard de, Flemish painter.
  • Crayon, material for drawing.
  • Cream of Tartar, chemical salt.
  • Creasote, or Creosote, antiseptic, drug, and poison.
  • Crébillon, Claude Prosper Jolyot, French novelist.
  • Crébillon, Prosper Jolyot de, French poet.
  • Crécy, or Cressy, town, France.
  • Credi, Lorenzo di, Italian painter.
  • Crédit Foncier, Crédit Mobilier, credit banks.
  • Crediton, town, England.
  • Creech, Thomas, English translator.
  • Creeds, authorized formularies of doctrine.
  • Creek Indians, North America (See Indians).
  • Crefeld, town, Germany.
  • Crema, town, Italy.
  • Cremation, method of disposing of human corpses.
  • Cremona, province & town, Italy.
  • Creole.
  • Creon, king of Corinth, in Greek fable (See Jason and Medea).
  • Creon, king of Thebes, in Greek fable.
  • Creosote, antiseptic, drug, and poison (Creasote, q.v.).
  • Crescimbeni, Giovanni Mario, Italian poet.
  • Crespi, Daniele, Italian painter.
  • Crespi, Giovanni Battista, Italian sculptor.
  • Crespi, Giuseppe Maria, Italian painter.
  • Creswell, Sir Cresswell, English judge.
  • Cressy, town, France (Crécy, q.v.).
  • Crest, in heraldry (See Heraldry).
  • Crest, town, France.
  • Creswick, Thomas, English painter.
  • Crete, or Candia, island, Mediterranean.
  • Cretinism, disease.
  • Creuse, department, France.
  • Creutz, Gustaf Philip, Count, Swedish poet.
  • Creuzer, Georg Friedrich, German philologist.
  • Creuzot, or Creusot, Le, town, France.
  • Crevier, Jean Baptiste Louis, French writer.
  • Crewe, town, England.
  • Cribbage, game.
  • Crichton, James, The Admirable Crichton.
  • Cricket, insect.
  • Cricket, game.
  • Cricklade, town, England.
  • Crieff, town, Scotland.
  • Crime.
  • Crimea, peninsula, Russia.
  • Criminal Law.
  • Crimmitzschau, town, Saxony.
  • Crispin and Crispinian, Sts.
  • Crissa, ancient town, Greece.
  • Critias, Greek orator and poet.
  • Crivelli, Carlo, Venetian painter.
  • Croatia and Slavonia, crown-land, Hungary.
  • Crocodile, reptile.
  • Crœsus, king of Lydia.
  • Croft, William, English musical composer.
  • Croker, John Wilson, English critic.
  • Croker, Thomas Crofton, Irish antiquary.
  • Croly, George, English divine and poet.
  • Cromarty, county, Scotland.
  • Crome, John, English painter.
  • Cromlech, monumental stone or circle of stones.
  • Crompton, Samuel, inventor of the spinning mule.
  • Cromwell, Oliver, Lord Protector of the British Commonwealth.
  • Cromwell, Thomas, earl of Essex.
  • Cronstadt, town, Russia.
  • Cronstadt, town, Austria.
  • Croquet, out-door game.
  • Cross, instrument for inflicting capital punishment & sacred symbol.
  • Crossbill, bird.
  • Crotch, William, English musical composer.
  • Croton Oil.
  • Crotona.
  • Croup, disease.
  • Crousaz, Jean Pierre de, Swiss philosopher.
  • Crow, bird.
  • Crowe, Eyre Evans, English historian.
  • Crowland, town, England.
  • Crown, of king or emperor.
  • Croydon, town, England.
  • Crucifix and Crucifixion (See Cross).
  • Cruden, Alexander, author of Concordance to Bible.
  • Crusades.
  • Crusenstolpe, Magnus Jakob, Swedish historian.
  • Crusius, Christian August, German theologian.
  • Crustacea, class of animals.
  • Cruveilhier, Jean, French anatomist.
  • Cruz, Jean de la, Spanish mystic.
  • Cruz, Ramon de la, Spanish dramatist.
  • Crypt, in architecture.
  • Cryptography, writing in cypher.
  • Crystallography.
  • Csokonai, Mihaly Vitez, Hungarian poet.
  • Csoma de Körös, Alexander, Hungarian philologist.
  • Ctesias, Greek physician and historian.
  • Ctesiphon, ancient town, Assyria.
  • Cuba.
  • Cubebs.
  • Cubitt, Thomas.
  • Cubitt, Sir William.
  • Cuca, plant.
  • Cuckoo, or Cuckow, bird.
  • Cucumber, vegetable.
  • Cuddalor, town, India.
  • Cuddapah, district, India.
  • Cudworth, Ralph, English philosopher.
  • Cuenca, province & town, Spain.
  • Cuenca, town, Ecuador.
  • Cuirass, defensive armour.
  • Cujas, or Cujacius, Jacques de, French jurisconsult.
  • Culdees, order of ecclesiastics.
  • Cullen, William, Scottish pathologist.
  • Cullera, town, Spain.
  • Culloden, Scotland, Battle of (1746).
  • Cumæ, or Cuma, ancient Greek colony, Italy.
  • Cumana, town, Venezuela.
  • Cumberland, county, England.
  • Cumberland, town, Maryland, U.S.A.
  • Cumberland, Richard, Bishop of Peterborough.
  • Cumberland, Richard, English dramatist.
  • Cumberland, William Augustus, Duke of.
  • Cumbraes, islands, Scotland (See Bute).
  • Cumin, or Cummin, plant.
  • Cumming, Roualeyn Gordon, African traveller and hunter.
  • Cunard, Sir Samuel, founder of line of steamships.
  • Cuneiform Writing.
  • Cunitz, Maria.
  • Cunningham, Allan, Scottish writer.
  • Cunningham, Peter, English miscellaneous writer.
  • Cunningham, William, Scottish theologian and ecclesiastic.
  • Cupar-Fife, town, Scotland.
  • Cupid, Roman god (the Greek Eros).
  • Cupping, surgical operation.
  • Curaçoa, or Curaçao, island, West Indies.
  • Curassow, bird.
  • Curate.
  • Cures, ancient town, Italy.
  • Cureton, William, English Orientalist.
  • Curfew, bell.
  • Curia, ancient Roman tribal division & papal court.
  • Curlew, bird.
  • Curling, game.
  • Curragh, plain, with military camp, Kildare, Ireland.
  • Curran, John Philpot, Irish orator.
  • Currants, fruit.
  • Currency, or Current Money (See Money).
  • Currie, James, Scottish physician and critic.
  • Curry, condiment.
  • Currying, in leather manufacture (See Leather).
  • Curtius, Mettus, Roman legendary hero.
  • Curtius, Rufus, Quintus, biographer of Alexander the Great.
  • Curve, Curves.
  • Curzola, town, Austrian Dalmatia.
  • Cusa, Nicolas de (Cusanus), cardinal and Reformer.
  • Cush, of Scripture.
  • Custard Apple.
  • Customs Duties.
  • Custos Rotulorum, keeper of records.
  • Cutch, state, India.
  • Cutch Gundava, district, Baluchistan.
  • Cuthbert, St, bishop of Lindisfarne, England.
  • Cutlery.
  • Cuttack, district and town, India (See Cattack).
  • Cuttle-Fish.
  • Cuvier, Georges (Baron Cuvier), French naturalist.
  • Cuxhaven, town, Germany.
  • Cuyaba, town, Brazil.
  • Cuyp, family of Dutch painters.
  • Cuzco, town, Peru.
  • Cybele, in Greek mythology.
  • Cyclades, group of islands, Greece.
  • Cyclones, areas of low atmospheric pressure (See Atmosphere, Climate, and Meteorology).
  • Cyclopes, in Greek mythology.
  • Cynics, school of Greek philosophy.
  • Cy-Près, in law.
  • Cypress, tree.
  • Cyprian, bishop of Carthage.
  • Cyprus, island, Mediterranean.
  • Cyrenaica, or Pentapolis, district, Africa.
  • Cyrenaics, school of Greek philosophers.
  • Cyrene, ancient town, Africa.
  • Cyril, St, bishop of Jerusalem.
  • Cyril of Alexandria.
  • Cyril of Berytus, Byzantine jurist.
  • Cyrus the Elder, founder of the Persian empire.
  • Cyrus the Younger, Persian satrap.
  • Cyzicus, ancient town, Asia Minor.
  • Czacki, Tadeusz, Polish statesman and writer.
  • Czartoryski, Adam George, Polish prince and patriot.
  • Czaslau, town, Bohemia.
  • Czechs, Slavonic people.
  • Czegled, town, Hungary.
  • Czenstochova, Old and New, towns, Poland.
  • Czernowitz, town, Austria.
  • Czerny, Karl, Austrian musical composer and pianist.
  • Czerny George, Tsrni George, or Karageorgevich, Servian leader.
  • D, the fourth letter of the alphabet.
  • Dacca, district and town, India.
  • Dace, fish.
  • Dacia, ancient country, Europe.
  • Dacier, André, French scholar.
  • Dacier, Anne Lefèvre, French scholar.
  • Da Costa, Isaak, Dutch poet and theologian.
  • Dacotah (Dakota, q.v.).
  • Dactyls (See Corybantes).
  • Dædalus, in Greek legend.
  • Daffodil, plant.
  • Dagger, weapon.
  • Daghestan, government, Asiatic Russia.
  • D'Agincourt, Jean Baptiste, French archæologist.
  • Dagon, Philistine diety.
  • Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mandé, French painter and physicist.
  • D'Aguesseau, Henri François, chancellor of France.
  • Dahl, Johann Christian, Norwegian painter.
  • Dahl, Michael, Swedish painter.
  • Dahl, or Dale, Vladimir Ivanovitch, Russian writer.
  • Dahlgren, Karl Fredrik, Swedish poet and humorist.
  • Dahlia, plant.
  • Dahlmann, Friedrich Christian, German historian.
  • Dahlstjerna, Gunno Eurelius, Swedish poet.
  • Dahomey, kingdom, West Africa.
  • Daillé, Jean, French Protestant divine.
  • Daimiel, town, Spain.
  • Dairy.
  • Daisy, plant.
  • Dakota, Territory, U.S.A.
  • Dalberg, Prince of, patron of German literature.
  • D'Alembert, Jean le Rond, French mathematician and philosopher.
  • Dalgarno, George, Scottish educational writer.
  • Dalhousie, Marquis of, governor-general of India.
  • Dalin, Olof von, Swedish poet.
  • Dalkeith, town, Scotland.
  • Dalling and Bulwer, Lord, British diplomatist.
  • Dalmatia, crown land, Austria.
  • Dalrymple, Scottish family (See Stair and Hailes).
  • Dalton, John, English physicist.
  • Damages, in law.
  • Daman (Damaun, q.v.).
  • Damaraland, district, South Africa (See Hereroland).
  • Damascenus, Johannes, theologian, early Greek Church.
  • Damascenus, Nicolaus, Greek historian.
  • Damascius, Neoplatonic philosopher.
  • Damascus, town, Syria.
  • Damask, cloth.
  • Damask Steel.
  • Damaskeening, or Damascening, in metal work.
  • Damasus, two popes.
  • Damaun, town, India.
  • D'Amboise, George, French cardinal.
  • Damiens, Robert François, assailant of Louis XV. of France.
  • Damietta, town, Egypt.
  • Damiri, Arabian naturalist.
  • Damiron, Jean Philibert, French philosophical writer.
  • Dammar, or Dammer, resin.
  • Damocles, courtier of Dionysius.
  • Damon, friend of Pythias.
  • Dampier, William, English navigator.
  • Dan, town, Judæa.
  • Dana, family of eminent Americans.
  • Danae, mother of Perseus.
  • Danaus, in Greek legend.
  • Danbury, town, Connecticut, U.S.A.
  • Danby, Francis, English painter.
  • Dance.
  • Dance, family of English architects and painters.
  • Dancourt, Florent Carton, French dramatist.
  • Dandelion, plant.
  • Dandolo, patrician family of Venice.
  • Dandolo, VIncenzo, Count, Italian scientist.
  • Daniel, of Scripture.
  • Daniel, Book of.
  • Daniel, Gabriel, French Jesuit historian.
  • Daniel, Samuel, English poet.
  • Daniell, John Frederick, English chemist.
  • Daniell, Samuel, Thomas, and William, English painters.
  • Dannecker, Johann Heinrich von, German sculptor.
  • Dante (Dante Alighieri), Italian poet.
  • Danton, George Jacques, French Revolutionist.
  • Dantzic, or Danzig, town, Germany.
  • Danube, river, Europe.
  • Danvers, town, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
  • Danville, town, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
  • Danville, town, Illinois, U.S.A.
  • D'Anville, Jean Baptiste, French geographer.
  • Daphne, in Greek mythology.
  • Daphnephoria, Greek festival.
  • Darabjird, or Darab-Gherd, town, Persia.
  • D'Arblay, Madam (Frances Burney), English novelist.
  • Darboy, Georges, archbishop of Paris.
  • Dardanelles, Strait of.
  • Dardanus, in Greek mythology.
  • Dares of Phrygia, on the legends of Troy.
  • Darfur, country, Central Africa.
  • Darien, isthmus and district, South America.
  • Darius I., king of Persia.
  • Darius II., Ochus or Nothus, of Persia.
  • Darius III., Codomannus, of Persia.
  • Darjiling, or Darjeeling, district and town, India.
  • Darlington, town, England.
  • Darmstadt, town, Germany.
  • Darnétal, town, France.
  • Dartford, town, England.
  • Dartmoor Forest (see Devonshire), England.
  • Dartmouth, town, England.
  • Daru, Pierre Antoine, Comte de, French writer and statesman.
  • Darwin, Erasmus, English poet and scientist.
  • Dashkoff, Catherina R. W., Russian princess.
  • Dass, Petter or Peder, Norwegian poet.
  • Date Palm.
  • Daubenton, Louis Jean Marie, French naturalist.
  • Daubeny, Charles Giles Bridle, English man of science.
  • D'Aubigné, Jean Henri Merle, historian of the Reformation.
  • D'Aubigné, Théodore Agrippa, French historian and poet.
  • D'Aubusson, Pierre, grand-master of the Knights of St John.
  • Daun, Count von, Austrian general.
  • Dauphiné, old province, France.
  • Daurat, Jean, French poet.
  • Davenant, Sir William, English poet and dramatist.
  • Davenport, town, Iowa, U.S.A.
  • David, king of Israel.
  • David, St, patron saint of Wales.
  • David, Félicien César, French musical composer.
  • David, Jacques Louis, French painter.
  • David, Jean Pierre (David d'Angers), French sculptor.
  • David Ha-Cohen, Spanish rabbi.
  • Davidists, Christian sects.
  • Davies, Sir John, English poet and statesman.
  • Davila, Henrico Caterino, Italian historian.
  • Davis, John, English navigator.
  • Davy, Sir Humphrey, English man of science.
  • Dawlish, town, England.
  • Dax, town, France.
  • Day, in the calendar (See Astronomy and Calendar).
  • Day, John, English dramatist.
  • Dayton, town, Ohio, U.S.A.
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