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		<title>POUND (law)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[POUND, in English -Law, means an enclosure, or which then was generally one in every parish, or at least every manor, ii Which stray cattle were put and detained until the damage done by them was paid for. Whenever a stranger&#8217;s or neighbor&#8217;s cattle trespass on another&#8217;s lands, the latter can seize them, am take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ANTIPHLOGISTIC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ANTIPHLOGISTIC (Gr. anti, against, and phlego, I burn), a term applied to remedies, and also to regimen, that are opposed to inflammation; such as blood-letting, purgatives, low diet, &#038;c.
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		<title>PACKFONG or PETONG</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PACKFO&#8217;NG, or PETO&#8217;NG, a Chinese alloy or white metal, consisting of arsenic and copper. It is formed by putting two parts of arsenic in a crucible with five parts of copper turnings, or finely divided copper; the arsenic and copper require to be placed in alternate layers, and the whole is covered with a layer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ROTATION OF CROPS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ROTATION OF CROPS. The plants like the animals of the farm differ much in their habits, and in the different sorts of food on which they subsist. The broad-leafed clovers, turnips, and mangold abstract from the air a large proportion of the materials of their growth; whilst the narrower-leafed grains and grasses, especially if their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SIEGE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SIEGE (Pr. a seat, a sitting down) is the sitting of au army before a hostile town or fortress with the intention of capturing it. With certain elements, the success of a siege is beyond doubt; the result being merely a question of time. These elements are : first, the force of the besiegers shall [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SOCIAL SCIENCE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SOCIAL SCIENCE, a name that has of late years been given to the study of all that relates to the social improvement of the community. A society, called &#8216;The National Association for the Promotion of Social Science,&#8217; was first organized at a meeting which was held under Lord Brougham&#8217;s auspices in July 1857, to consider [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SOCIALISM</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SOCIALISM, the name given to a class of opinions opposed to the present organization of society, and which seeks to introduce a new distribution of property and labor, in which organized cooperation rather than competition should be the dominating principle, under the conviction that the happiness of the race, and especially of the classes without [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SOCAGE or SOCCAGE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SOCAGE, or SOCCAGE (originally hlaford-socn, seeking a lord; whence we have also soc, a right, of holding a court), a tenure of lands in England, of which the characteristic feature is, that the service is fixed and determinate in quality, thereby differing both from knight-service and from villeinage. It was originally peculiar to the Anglo-Danish [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PAINS AND PENALTIES</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PAINS AND PENALTIES. When a person has committed some crime of peculiar enormity, and for which no adequate punishment is provided by the ordinary law, the mode of proceeding is by introducing a bill of pains and penalties, the object of which, therefore, is to inflict a punishment of an extraordinary and anomalous kind. These [...]]]></description>
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		<title>REBUS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[RE&#8217;BUS, an enigmatical representation of a name or thing by using pictorial devices for letters, syllables, or parts of words. The term probably originates from the device speaking to the beholder non verbus sed rebus. Devices of this kind, allusive to the bearer&#8217;s name, were exceedingly common in the middle ages, particularly in England. In [...]]]></description>
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