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CASIMIR III ., called " THE See also:GREAT," See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Poland (1310-r370), the son of See also:Wladislaus Lokietek, king of Poland, and Jadwiga, princess of See also:Kalisch, was See also:born at Kowal in Kujavia in 1310. Casimir belongs to that remarkable See also:group of See also:late See also:medieval sovereigns who may be called the fathers of See also:modern See also:diplomacy, inasmuch as they relegated warfare to its proper See also:place as the See also:instrument of politics, and preferred the See also:council-chamber to the See also:battle-See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field. He was educated at the See also:court of See also:Charles See also:Robert of See also:Hungary, who had married Casimir's beautiful See also:sister See also:Elizabeth, and who gave his See also:brother-in-See also:law an excellent See also:education under See also:Italian masters. In his youth Casimir was considered frivolous and licentious; while his sudden See also:flight from the field of Plowce, the See also:scene of his See also:father's great victory over the See also:Teutonic knights, argued but poorly for his See also:personal courage. When, therefore, he ascended the See also:Polish See also:throne in 1333, the future of his See also:country, which then consisted of little more than the lately reunited provinces of Great and Little Poland, seemed dark indeed; especially as she was still at See also:war with the Teutonic See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
Order and with See also:John of See also:Luxemburg, king of Bohemia, who claimed the See also:crown of Poland also. Fortunately Casimir was a See also:man of penetrating See also:genius. His father had been a See also:hero who
Anacardium occidentale, Cashew See also:Nut plant, belonging to the
nat. ord. Anacardiaceae.
i. See also:Branch (reduced), bearing See also:flowers and See also:fruit. The fruit-stalks are enlarged in a See also:pear-like See also:form, bearing the nut (the true fruit) at their See also:apex. See also:Flower See also:expanded.
Stamen and See also:pistil, with the calyx; one fertile stamen longer than the others.
4. Stamen separated.
5. Nut constituting the fruit.
6. Nut opened longitudinally.
7. See also:Seed separated from the
nut.
8. Cotyledons opened to show the radicle a, and the plumule.
2. 3.
the name of cashew See also:apple. By See also:fermentation it yields an alcoholic beverage, from which a spirit for drinking is distilled in the See also:West Indies and See also:Brazil. The See also:stem of the See also:- TREE (0. Eng. treo, treow, cf. Dan. tree, Swed. Odd, tree, trd, timber; allied forms are found in Russ. drevo, Gr. opus, oak, and 36pv, spear, Welsh derw, Irish darog, oak, and Skr. dare, wood)
- TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM (1853- )
tree yields a See also:- GUM (Fr. gomme, Lat. gommi, Gr. Kµµ1, possibly a Coptic word; distinguish " gum," the fleshy covering of the base of a tooth, in O. Eng. gbma, palate, cf. Ger. Gaumen, roof of the mouth; the ultimate origin is probably the root gha, to open wide, seen in
gum analogous to gum arabic.
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