- Black Bear
Black Bear - Beans
Take Beanes, the rinde or the upper skin being pul'd off, bruise them, and mingle them with the white of an Egg, and make it stick to the temples, it keepeth back humours flowing to the Eyes. To dissolve the Stone; which is one of the Physitians greatest secrets. Take a peck of green Beane cods, well cleaved, and without dew or rain, and two good handfulls of Saxifrage, lay the same into a Still, one row of Bean cods, another of Saxifrage, and so Distill another quart of water after this manner, and then Distill another proportion of Bean codds alone, and use to drink oft these two Waters; if the Patient be most troubled with heat of the Reins, then it is good to use the Bean codd water stilled alone more often, and the other upon comming downe of the sharp gravell or stone. - Bashful lady
- Ballista - Caesar covered his landing in Britain with fire from catapults and ballistas.
The ballista had horizontal arms like a bow. The arms were set in rope; a cord, fastened to the arms like a bowstring, fired arrows, darts, and stones. Like a modern field gun, the ballista shot low and directly toward the enemy. - Assyrian inscription
- Assurbanipal at the chase.
- Assasination at Ford's Theatre
- Asiatic Cithara
- Argynnis Aphrodite
- Argonaut
- Arenicola piscatorium
- Archangel Blue Cat
Archangel Blue Cat - Aprecocks
To dry Apricocks. Take them when they be ripe, stone them, and pare off their rindes very thin, then take halfe as much Sugar as they weigh, finely beaten, and lay them with that Sugar into a silver or earthen dish, laying first a lay of Sugar, and then of Fruit, and let them stand so all night, and in the morning the Sugar will be all melted, then put them into a Skillet, and boyle them apace, scumming them well, and as soon as they grow tender take them off from the fire, and let them stand two dayes in the Syrupe, then take them out, and lay them on a fine plate, and so dry them in a Stove. - Antennæ of Goniodes
- Anou or Dagon
- Anglo-Saxon dress
A somewhat remarkable feature of Anglo-Saxon dress of the eighth century was the long super-tunic with long sleeves, worn in travelling or during cold weather. The sleeves not only cover the hands, but reach considerably below the tips of the fingers. - Anglo Saxon Retainer
- Ancient Egyptian Cithara
- Anatifa lævis
- An Armed Cutter
An Armed Cutter - Adrift on an ice-floe
Adrift on an ice-floe DeLong caught in the ice-pack, was carried past its northern end, thus proving it to be an island, indeed, but making the discovery at heavy cost. Winter in the pack was attended with severe hardships and grave perils. Under the influence of the ocean currents and the tides, the ice was continually breaking up and shifting, and each time the ship was in imminent danger of being crushed. In his journal DeLong tries to describe the terrifying clamor of Page 209a shifting pack. "I know of no sound on shore that can be compared with it," he writes. "A rumble, a shriek, a groan, and the crash of a falling house all combined, might serve to convey an idea of the noise with which this motion of the ice-floe is accompanied." - Abraham Lincolns home in Springfield
- Abraham Lincoln (1)
- Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln - a white Persian - Muff
a white Persian - Muff - A vanishing type on the lakes
A vanishing type on the lakes - A Positive Organ
- A Pink
A pink was rigged like a schooner, but without a bowsprit or jib. - A deckload of cotton
A deckload of cotton - 'Tiger'
'Tiger' - 'The old Lady' - Silver Tabby
'The old Lady' - Silver Tabby - 'The Colonel' - White Persian
'The Colonel' - White Persian - 'Sylvie'
'Sylvie' - 'Fez' - Persian
'Fez' - Persian - 'Dinah'
'Dinah'