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System
·noun The collection of staves which form a full score. ·see <<Score>>, ·noun.
II. System ·noun Reg...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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system
The method of disposing the correlative parts of a fortification, proposed variously by many eminent...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Conduit
·noun A structure forming a reservoir for water.
II. Conduit ·noun A narrow passage for private com...
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Conduit
A water-course or channel (Job 38:25). The "conduit of the upper pool" (Isa. 7:3) was formed by Heze...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Conduit
meaning an aqueduct or trench through which water was carried. Tradition, both oral and as represent...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Ardois system
·add. ·- A widely used system of electric night signals in which a series of double electric lamps (...
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Autokinetic system
·add. ·- In fire-alarm telegraphy, a system so arranged that when one alarm is being transmitted, no...
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Automixte system
·add. ·- A system (devised by Henri Pieper, a Belgian) of driving automobiles employing a gasoline e...
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Bertillon system
·add. ·- A system for the identification of persons by a physical description based upon anthropomet...
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Block system
·add. ·- A system by which the track is divided into short sections, as of three or four miles, and ...
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Cascade system
·add. ·- A system or method of connecting and operating two induction motors so that the primary cir...
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Case system
·add. ·- The system of teaching law in which the instruction is primarily a historical and inductive...
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Chautauqua system
(of education) ·add. ·- The system of home study established in connection with the summer schools a...
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Continental system
·add. ·- The system of commercial blockade aiming to exclude England from commerce with the Continen...
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Contract system
·add. ·- The sweating system.
II. Contract system ·add. ·- The system of employing convicts by sell...
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Crofton system
·add. ·- A system of prison discipline employing for consecutive periods cellular confinement, assoc...
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Delsarte system
·add. ·- A system of calisthenics patterned on the theories of Fran/ois Delsarte (1811 - 71), a Fren...
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Ganz system
·add. ·- A haulage system for canal boats, in which an electric locomotive running on a monorail has...
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Marconi system
·add. ·- A system or wireless telegraphy developed by G. Marconi, an Italian physicist, in which Her...
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Metric system
·- ·see <<Metric>>, ·adj.
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Tandem system
·add. ·- = Cascade system.
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Torrens system
·add. ·- A system of registration of titles to land (as distinct from registration of deeds) introdu...
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graham system
A system of dietetics recommended by Sylvester Graham, a lecturer of some celebrity on temperance an...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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binary system
When two stars forming a double-star are found to revolve about each other.
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copernican system
The Pythagorean system of the universe, revived by Copernicus in the sixteenth century, and now conf...
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solar system
The sun, planets, and comets, which are assumed to form a system, independent of the surrounding fix...
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ternary system
Three stars in close proximity, and found to be in physical connection, as, for instance, ζ Cancri.
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warehousing system
The use of bonding places under charge of officers of the customs, in which goods may be deposited, ...
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Aldermanbury Conduit
In the middle of Aldermanbury near St. Mary Aldermanbury Church. Commenced by Sir William Eastfield,...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Conduit Lane
At Dowgate. A tradesman's token issued to a house in the lane 1649-72 (Burn, p. 54).
No other refer...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Conduit Tavern
Solar of Salomom de Lauvare, cutler, extending from the entrance to the Conduit Tavern up to the wal...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Conduit Yard
South of Aldgate, adjoining the Wall of London. In Portsoken Ward (O. and M. 1677).
Adjacent to the...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Fleet Conduit
See Conduit in Fleet Street.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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The Great Conduit in Westcheap
At the eastern end of Cheapside in the parish of St. Mary Colechurch, opposite the Hospital of St. T...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Holborn Conduit
At the junction of Cow Lane, Cock Lane and Snow Hill, in Farringdon Ward Without (Strype, ed. 1720)....
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Lamb's Conduit
See Holborn Conduit.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Third-rail system
·add. ·- A system in which a third rail is used for carrying the current for operating the motors, t...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Conduit (Great) in Westeheap
See The Great Conduit.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Conduit at Aldermanbury
See Aldermanbury Conduit.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Conduit at Barking
Bequest of 2/- quit rent to the conduit of Berkynke by Rob. de Conyngham, 1286 (Ct. H. Wills, I. 78)...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Conduit at Bishopsgate
Near the gate inside the walls (S. 175), a little to the west (ib. 176).
Erected by Thomas Kneswort...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Conduit at Dowgate
A conduit of Thames water made 1568 at the cost of the citizens, and called the Conduit upon Downgat...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Conduit in Colemanstreet
In Coleman Street by the west end of the parish church of St. Margaret Lothbury. Erected at the char...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Conduit in Lothbury
Erected at the charges of the City in 1546, Sir Martin Bowes being Mayor. Water was brought from spr...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Conduit upon Cornhill
In Cornhill opposite the north end of Change Alley and the eastern side of the Royal Exchange.
Show...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Conduit without Cripplegate
In Fore Street, not far from the east end of St. Giles' Church (S. 18, 303, 432).
Made in 1478 by t...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Bell system of control
·add. ·- ·see <<Cloche>>.
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system of the universe
See copernican system.
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Conduit at Aldgate Without
"A fair water conduit, hard without the Gate" (Aldgate), erected 1535 (Stow, ed. 1603, p. 129).
One...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Conduit at Fleet Bridge
A cistern or conduit for receipt of spring water made by the inhabitants of Fleet Street in 1478, bu...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Conduit at Holborn Cross
See Holborn Conduit.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Conduit at London Wall
In London Wall by Moorgate opposite the northern end of Coleman Street, erected 1517 at the charges ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Conduit in Colchurch Parish
See The Great Conduit.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Conduit in Fleet Street
At the south end of Shoe Lane, in Farringdon Ward Without (Leake, 1666), near the hostel of the Bish...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Conduit in Gracechurch Street
In Gracechurch Street at the west end of Jerusalem Alley (Leake, 1666).
Erected in 1491 by Thomas H...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Little Conduit in Westcheap
By St. Paul's Gate at the east end of the church of St. Michael le Quern. In Farringdon Ward Within ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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(St.) Thomas near the Conduit
See St. Thomas of Acon.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Three-torque system of control
·add. ·- Any system of rudders by which the pilot can exert a turning moment about each of the three...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Conduit by St. Nicholas Cole Abbey
On the north side of the church, in the wall thereof (S. 18). Made about 1583. £700 given by Barnard...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Conduit, St. Margaret, Fish Street Hill
Beneath the wall of the Church of St. Margaret in Briggestret, 1379 (Riley's Mem. 436).
No later me...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Little Conduit by the Stocks Market
Erected about 1500 (S. 18). In Walbrook Ward. Removed after the Fire 1666 (Strype, ed. 1720, I. i. 2...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Conduit by St. Mary Magdalen, Old Fish Street
Erected 1583 and castellated with stone for the receipt of Thames water, conveyed to it at the charg...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.