The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. . , «. [< F. rliapsodomancie = Sp. Pg. rapsodomancia, < Gr. pai/urfof, a rhapsodist (see rhapsode), + fiavreia, divination.] Di-vination by means of verses. There were various methods of practising this rhapso-domancy. Sometimes they wrote several verses or sen-tences of a poet on so many pieces of wood, paper, or thelike, shook them together in an urn, and drew out one. .. n. [= F. Ithee, < L. Mhea, < , Rhea (see def. ]).] 1. In anc. mi/th.,
The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. . , «. [< F. rliapsodomancie = Sp. Pg. rapsodomancia, < Gr. pai/urfof, a rhapsodist (see rhapsode), + fiavreia, divination.] Di-vination by means of verses. There were various methods of practising this rhapso-domancy. Sometimes they wrote several verses or sen-tences of a poet on so many pieces of wood, paper, or thelike, shook them together in an urn, and drew out one. .. n. [= F. Ithee, < L. Mhea, < , Rhea (see def. ]).] 1. In anc. mi/th., adaughter of Uranus and Ge, or Heaven andEarth, wife and sister of Kronos, anil motherof various divinities. However intimate the connection, however inextricablethe confusion between the Great Mother and Jtliea, evendown to hate days the memory remained that they werenot in origin one and the same. Harrison and Verrall, Ancient Athens, p. 51. 2. [NIj.] In ornith.: (a) The only genus ofliheids; the only -American genus of living ra-tite birds; the only three-toed ostriches. Is the common American ostrich, avestruz, or. :^^*=::^ South Ostrich americuna). nandu. R. darieini is a second very distinct species, some-times placed in another geims, Pterocnemis, owing to theextensive feathering of the legs. R. viacrorhyncha is athird species, which is closely related to the first. (J) [7. f.] An American ostrich.—3. The fifth sat-ellite of (reii), n. [-Also rheea; E. Ind.] Theramie-plant or -fiber. . Sometimes they cast dice on a table on which verses Rheae (ree), n. pL [NL., pi. of Phea^, 2.] Awere written, and that on which the die lodged contain- superfamilv group, liy Newton made an order,ed the prediction. A third manner was by opening a book, of extant ratite birds incliidinu-otiIv the Phfiand pitching on some verse at first sight. This method , fxraiu latue u rus, inciuamg onl.\ tne J{nei-they particularly called the Sortes Pianesti
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