Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . Philostratus.)Herodotus rejected the yarn, as also the statementrepeated by Strabo, that the ears of some of theseIndians were like winnowing-fans, and that theywra|)ped themselves in them to .sleep. The Chinese invented the folding parasol or um-brella. Their modern dates from 1820, and theirpresent form is said to have been devised by theDuchess of Rutlan
Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . Philostratus.)Herodotus rejected the yarn, as also the statementrepeated by Strabo, that the ears of some of theseIndians were like winnowing-fans, and that theywra|)ped themselves in them to .sleep. The Chinese invented the folding parasol or um-brella. Their modern dates from 1820, and theirpresent form is said to have been devised by theDuchess of Rutland. The Chinese pa]ier-parasols,called , are now largely exported. The giftof a parasol is said to be a mark of kingly favor inChina. Artaxerxes gave to Entimus, the Gortinian, a couch withtilver feet, and cushions for it, and a flowered tent surmounted?with a canopy, and a silver chain, and a irilt parasol, and vesselsof gold and silver, and 100 girls and 100 boys, etc. — .\th^- VMCS. Para-ton-nerre. (French.) A lightning-con-ductor. See LlGHTNING-ARHESTER ; LlGHTNlXO-iiiin. Parbuck-le. A double sling a made of a singlerope, for hoisting or lowering a cask or gun. A means for raising or lowering (b). The bight of.
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