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Tunb, Greater and Lesser
(Encyclopedia)Tunb, Greater and Lesser: see Greater and Lesser Tunb. ...hoof-and-mouth disease
(Encyclopedia)hoof-and-mouth disease: see foot-and-mouth disease. ...Arabian art and architecture
(Encyclopedia)Arabian art and architecture: see Islamic art and architecture. ...building and loan association
(Encyclopedia)building and loan association: see savings and loan association. ...black-and-tan coonhound
(Encyclopedia)black-and-tan coonhound: see coonhound, black-and-tan. ...Siamese art and architecture
(Encyclopedia)Siamese art and architecture: see Southeast Asian art and architecture. ...Dalling and Bulwer, Baron
(Encyclopedia)Dalling and Bulwer, Baron: see Bulwer, William Henry Lytton Earle, Baron Dalling and Bulwer. ...ball-and-socket joint
(Encyclopedia)ball-and-socket joint, in engineering, mechanical connection used between parts that must be allowed some relative angular motion in nearly all directions. As the name implies, the joint consists esse...flotsam, jetsam, and ligan
(Encyclopedia)flotsam, jetsam, and ligan flŏtˈsəm, jĕtˈsəm, līˈgən [key] [O.Fr.], in maritime law, goods lost at sea as distinguished from goods washed ashore (wreck). Goods that remain floating on the sur...Grangemouth
(Encyclopedia)Grangemouth grānjˈməth, –mouth [key], town (1981 pop. 21,744), Falkirk, central Scotland, on the Forth River at the eastern terminus of the Forth and Clyde canal. Grangemouth is an important oil ...Browse by Subject
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