Chambers's encyclopædia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . tled, Physico-Mechanical Experiments on various Subjects; touch-inrj Lif/ht and Electricity producible on the Attritionof Bodies. He is perhaps best known for hisimprovement of the earlier air-pumps of Boyle,Papin, and Hooke (a subject fully discussed inWilsons Reli(jio Cliemici, pp. 215—218), and forbeing the first who used glass in the electricalmachine. HAWKWEED {Hieraciayn), a genus of plants ofthe natural order ConipositcE, sub-order Cic/<o? species are annual, or more generally perennialplants, some -with leafless
Chambers's encyclopædia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . tled, Physico-Mechanical Experiments on various Subjects; touch-inrj Lif/ht and Electricity producible on the Attritionof Bodies. He is perhaps best known for hisimprovement of the earlier air-pumps of Boyle,Papin, and Hooke (a subject fully discussed inWilsons Reli(jio Cliemici, pp. 215—218), and forbeing the first who used glass in the electricalmachine. HAWKWEED {Hieraciayn), a genus of plants ofthe natural order ConipositcE, sub-order Cic/<o? species are annual, or more generally perennialplants, some -with leafless scapes, one-flowered ormany-flowered, and some mth leafy stems; theleaves, stems, and involucres in many species beinghairy. They are very numerous, natives of thetemperate and colder regions of the northern hemi-sphere, particularly abounding in Europe. A nimi-ber are natives of Britain, and some of them are270 very common plants. The flowers are generallyyellow, but the Orange Hawkweed (H. aurantiacum),a native of the south of Europe, and doubtful native. Orange Hawkweed {Hieraclum aurantiacwni), of Britain, is often cidtivated in gardens for its richorange flowers. It is a perennial, about two feethigh. HAWSE, the situation of the cables in front ofa ships bow, M^hen she is moored with two anchorsout forward—one on the starboard, the other onthe port bow. The term is also used to denote anysmaU distance ahead of a ship, or between her bowand the anchors at which she rides; as, for instance,
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