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A Japanese singing and dancing girl.

is sometimes added to make it whiter and harder. It is essentially identical with the Chinese alloy packfong. It was formerly much used for tableware, knife handles, frames, cases, bearings of machinery, etc., but is now largely superseded by other white alloys. -- German steel (Metal.), a metal made from bog iron or…

plant of the genus Aralia, the root of which is highly valued as a medicine among the Chinese. The Chinese plant (Aralia Schinseng) has become so rare that the American (A. quinquefolia) has largely taken its place, and its root is now an article of export from America to China. The root, when dry, is of a yellowish w…

A Japanese game, played on a checkerboard, in which the object of the game is to be the first in placing five pieces, or men, in a row in any direction.

Chinese maritime customs.

A Chinese weight ( 1/10 catty) equivalent to 1 1/3 oz. or 37.801 g.

so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.

Steel hardened by the addition of other elements, as manganese, phosphorus, or (usually) carbon.

Native sulphide of manganese a reddish brown or brownish black mineral.

A mineral of a yellowish color, consisting chiefly of silica, glucina, manganese, and iron, with a little sulphur.

ony, a coarse, composite herb of Europe (Eupatorium cannabinum), much like the American boneset. -- Hemp nettle, a plant of the genus Galeopsis (G. Tetrahit), belonging to the Mint family. -- Indian hemp. See under Indian, a. -- Manila hemp, the fiber of Musa textilis. -- Sisal hemp, the fiber of Agave sisalana, of…

In Chinese literature, one of the sixty-four figures formed of six parallel lines (continuous or broken), forming the basis of the Yih King, or "Book of Changes." S. W. Williams.

r spies upon, another; app. esp. to the members of certain alleged societies among the Chinese. [U. S.]

ed by a common passage and used for business or storage. Hong merchant, one of the few Chinese merchants who, previous to the treaty of 1842, formed a guild which had the exclusive privilege of trading with foreigners.

ion having charge of the revenue derived from trade and navigation. [China] Hoppo men, Chinese customhouse officers.

The flesh of horses. The Chinese eat horseflesh at this day. Bacon.

eral of brownish black color, occurring in columnar or foliated masses. It is native manganese tungstate.

arent, siliceous fibres twisted together like the strands of a color. The stem of the Japanese species (H. Sieboldii), called glass-rope, has long been in use as an ornament. See Glass-rope.

, hyposulphuric acid. Hyposulphuric acid, an acid, H2S2O6, obtained by the action of manganese dioxide on sulphur dioxide, and known only in a watery solution and in its salts; -- called also dithionic acid. See Dithionic.

me extraneous substance formed on minerals. [R.] A thin crust or illinition of black manganese. Kirwan.