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secret society. Their toasts, about which there is no concealment, indicate the spirit of the Orangemen. The commonest form is " the glorious, pious and immortal memory of the See also:

GREAT

great and. See also:

GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good King William, who saved us from popery, See also:

SLAVERY

slavery, knavery, See also:

brass See also:

MONEY

money and wooden shoes," with See also:

GROTESQUE

grotesque or truculent additions according to the orator's See also:

TASTE (from Lat. taxare, to touch sharply; tangere, to touch)

taste. The brass money refers to See also:

James II.'s See also:

FINANCE

finance, and the wooden shoes to his See also:

French See also:

ALLIES, THOMAS WILLIAM (1813-1903)

allies. The final words are often " a fig for the See also:

bishop of See also:

Cork," in allusion to Dr See also:

Peter See also:

Browne, who, in 1715, wrote cogently against the practice of toasting the dead. Orangemen are fond of beating drums and flaunting flags with the See also:

LEGEND (through the French from the med. Lat. legenda, things to be read, from legere, to read)

legend " no surrender," in allusion to See also:

Londonderry. Orangeism, is essentially See also:

POLITICAL

political. Its See also:

ORIGINAL

original See also:

OBJECT

object was the See also:

MAINTENANCE (Fr. maintenance, from maintenir, to maintain, support, Lat. manu tenere, to hold in the hand)

maintenance of See also:

PROTESTANT

Protestant ascendancy, and that spirit still survives. The first See also:

REGULAR

regular lodges were founded in 1795, but the See also:

SYSTEM

system existed earlier.

The See also:

Brunswick clubs, founded to oppose See also:

CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

Catholic emancipation, were sprigs from the original Orange See also:

tree. The orange See also:

FLOWERS, ARTIFICIAL

flowers of the Lilium bulbiferum are worn in Ulster on the 1st and 12th See also:

JULY

July, the anniversaries of the See also:

BOYNE

Boyne and See also:

AUGHRIM, or AGHRIM

Aughrim. Another great See also:

day is the 5th of See also:

NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November, when William III. landed in Torbay. ORANG-UTAN (" See also:

man of the See also:

woods "), the See also:

MALAY

Malay name of the See also:

GIANT (O.E. geant, through Fr. giant, O.Fr. gaiant, jaiant, jeant, med. pop. Lat. gagante—cf. Ital. gigante—by assimilation from gigantem, ace. of Lat. gigas, Gr. yiyas)

giant red man-like See also:

APE (Old Eng. ape; Dutch aap; Old Ger. a ffo; Welsh epa; Old Bohemian op; a word of uncertain origin, possibly an imitation of the animal's chatter)

ape of See also:

BORNEO

Borneo and See also:

SUMATRA

Sumatra, known to the See also:

DYAKS, or DAYAKS

Dyaks as the mias, and to most naturalists as Simia satyrus. The red, or brownish-red, See also:

COLOUR (Lat. color, connected with celare, to hide, the root meaning, therefore, being that of a covering)

colour of the See also:

long and coarse See also:

HAIR (a word common to Teutonic languages)

hair at once distinguishes the orang-utan from the See also:

AFRICAN

African apes; a further point of distinction being the excessive length of the arms, which are of such proportions that the See also:

animal when in the upright posture (which it seldom voluntarily assumes) can See also:

REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest on its See also:

bent knuckles. Very characteristic of the old See also:

MALES

males, which may stand as much as 51 ft. in height, is the lateral expansion of the cheeks, owing to a See also:

KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind of warty growth, thus producing an extraordinarily broad and flattened type of See also:

FACE (from Lat. fades, derived either from facere, to make, or from a root fa-, meaning " appear "; cf. Gr. cbatvstv)

face. Such an expansion is however by no means characteristic of all the males of the See also:

SPECIES

species, and is apparently a feature of racial value. Another peculiarity of the males is the presence of a huge See also:

THROAT (O. Eng. protu, prote or }Prota, possibly from preotan, to press, whence threat, or, with loss of initial s, connected with strut, to swell)

throat-See also:

sac or pouch on the front of the throat and See also:

CHEST (Gr. Kiarl, Lat. cista, O. Eng. cist, test, &c.)

chest, which may extend even to the See also:

ARM (a common Teutonic word; the Indo-European root is ar, to join or fit; cf. the Lat. armus, shoulder, and the plural word arma, weapons, Gr. apphs, joint, and the reduplicated apapilKSV, to join)

arm-pits; although See also:

PRESENT

present in See also:

FEMALES

females, it does not reach nearly the same dimensions in that See also:

SEX (Lat. sexes; possibly connected with secure, to cut)

sex. More than See also:

HALF

half-a-dozen See also:

SEPARATE

separate races of orang-utan are recognized in Borneo, where, however, they do not appear to be restricted to separate localities. In Sumatra the Deli and Langkat See also:

DISTRICT

district is inhabited by S. satyrus deliensis and Abong by S. s. abongensis. In Borneo the red ape inhabits the swampy See also:

FOREST

forest-See also:

TRACT (from Lat. tractare, to treat of a matter, through Provencal tractat and Ital. trattato)

tract at the See also:

FOOT

foot of the mountains. In confinement these apes (of which adult specimens have been exhibited in See also:

CALCUTTA

Calcutta) appear very slow and deliberate in their movements; but in their native forests they See also:

SWING, DAVID (1830-1894)

swing themselves from bough to bough and from tree to tree as fast as a man can walk on the ground beneath.

They construct platforms of boughs in the trees, which are used as sleeping-places, and apparently occupied for several nights in See also:

SUCCESSION (Lat. successio, from succedere, to follow after)

succession. See also:

JACK

Jack-See also:

FRUIT (through the French from the Lat. fructus; frui, to enjoy)

fruit or See also:

DURIAN (Malay, duri, a thorn)

durian, the tough spiny hide of which is torn open with their strong fingers, forms the See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief -See also:

food of orang-utans, which also consume the luscious mangustin and other fruits.

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