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[92] [Fauler Heinz.] Or Athanor, a chemical stove, which works on for a long time without poking. [Corresponding to our air-tight stove. Athanor, from the Greek, undying?—Tr.]
[93] The translator had to resort to the Scotch to help him get this pun into English.
[94] Ezek. xiii. 18: "Woe to the women that sew pillows to all arm-holes, and make kerchiefs upon the head of every stature, to hunt souls!"—Tr.
[95] According to Lempriere.
[96] Sanhedrim, c. 2, Misch. 3.
[97] Cic. ad Quirit. post redit, c. 3.
[98] His sect represented Christ's journey to hell as having released all the wicked from that region, but not Abraham, Enoch, the prophets, &c.—Tertul. adv. Marcion.
[99] A title given to black colors.
[100] The Corinthian, who was hidden from his enemies in a chest of cedar, ivory, and gold, richly adorned with figures in relief, and at last expelled the usurpers and mounted the throne.—Tr.
[101] The line which is drawn from the aphelion to the perihelion, the two apsides, or the nearest and farthest points of a planet's distance from the sun.
[102] A child coming into the world face foremost cannot afterward bend its head forward.—The Mother of a Family, Vol. V.
[103] The name of the Invalid Hospital in Copenhagen.
[104] In Darwin's Zoönomy, page 529, the case is adduced of a man who did this before spectators. In Paris another did the same by swallowing air.
[105] In Vienna there was an Institute which made new sealing-wax out of old, and endowed poor persons with the proceeds.
[106] Such was the tasteless name by which Basedow was going to baptize a daughter, in memory of the appearing of an elementary work by subscription. See Schlichtegroll's Necrology.
[107] Wehestande, a parody of Ehestande, wedded state.
[108] An issue.
[109] A name given in some places to the consumption.
[110] A micrometer consists of fine threads stretched across in the telescope, which serve to measure the smallest distance.
[111] The transit-instrument, or culminatory, observes when a star has reached the highest point in its course.
[112] Autarchs; for monarchs or sole-rulers are etymologically distinguished from self-rulers.
[113] Ghosts of the dead.—Tr.
[114] Does he allude to the frightful white form, in my "vision of annihilation"?
[115] A phrase applied to the form of a dying man. [Properly a distemper which gives one a deathly look. See Bailey's Dictionary.—Tr.]
[116] The lapis infernalis, or silver cautery.—Tr.
[117] Frederick's Honor.
[118] Linen cloths smeared with aromatic ointment, anciently placed on the heads of children just born or baptized.—Tr.
[119] An allusion to a well-known instrument of the Inquisition.—Tr.
