Worsted - Worsted Worsted is the name of a yarn and cloth usually made from wool. The name derives from the village of Worstead [1] in Norfolk, England. The village became, along with North Walsham and Aylsham, a centre for the manufacture of yarn and cloth, after weavers from Flanders arrived in Norfolk in the 12th century. The yarn is well twisted and spun of long staple wool (though nowadays also medium and short fibres are used). The wool is combed so that the fibres lie parallel. The cloth has a hard, smooth texture, usually whipcord, gabardine or serge, and the usual weave is a twill weave. Worsted is also used for carpets, garments, hosiery and gloves. Contrast woolen.
Indulf of Scotland - way for an unguarded creek or bay into which they might run their galleys and let loose their ravaging hordes like a flock of vultures upon the land. The coast bristled with defenders ready to grapple with the foe should he dare to land and throw him back into the waves. The invaders put their helms about and bore away to the Danish shore. It was a feint. After vanishing in the blue, they suddenly reappeared. Finding the coast unguarded, they landed unopposed in Banffshire near Cullen. Brief time was given them to pillage and slay. Indulf soon came up with them and the two armies were installed in combat. The Danes were worsted and driven to their ships and hoisting sail, this time in earnest, they made off to their.
History of Ottoman Egypt - countenance that thou art possessed of justice and goodness. Mehemet Ali seemed to hesitate, and then complied, and was at once invested. On this, a bloody struggle began between the two pashas. Khorshld, being informed of the insurrection, immediately prepared to stand a siege in. the citadel. Two chiefs of the Albanians joined his party, but many of his soldiers deserted. Mehemet Alis great strength lay in the devotion of the citizens of Cairo, who looked on him as a deliverer from their afflictions; and great numbers armed themselves, advising constantly with Mehemet Ali, having the sayyid Omar and the sheiks at their head, and guarding the town at night. On the 19th of the same month Mehemet Ali began to besiege Khorshld. After the siege had continued many days, Khorshld.
Gregoras Nicephorus - same lines. When Andronicus was dethroned (1328) by his grandson Andronicus III, Gregoras shared his downfall and retired into private life. Attacked by Barlaam, the famous monk of Calabria, he was with difficulty persuaded to come forward and meet him in a war of words, in which Barlaam was worsted. This greatly enhanced his reputation and brought him a large number of pupils. Gregoras remained loyal to the elder Andronicus to the last, but after his death he succeeded in gaining the favour of his grandson, by whom he was appointed to conduct the unsuccessful negotiations (for a union of the Greek and Latin churches) with the ambassadors of Pope John XXII (1333). Gregoras subsequently took an important part in the Hesychast controversy, in which he violently opposed Gregorius Palamas, the.
Eel - other weight being attached thereto, and the other end pegged into the bank, or tied to a branch of a tree, or to a bunch of weeds on the water side. Sniggling is a plan successfully adopted for catching eels in the daytime, when they creep into holes in the bank or woodwork, or under stones, or logs of wood. It is practiced by baiting a small hook or stout needle bound to the line for half of its length only with a worm, and presenting it at the entrance of the hole, or at the edge of the stone or log by the aid of a bent rod; the eel takes the bait, and the angler holds the line taut until his prey, gradually relaxing its adhesion to the shelter,.
Aberdeenshire - the shire, and pupils have long been in the habit of going directly from the schools to the university. The native Scots are long-headed, shrewd, careful, canny, active, persistent, but reserved and blunt, and without demonstrative enthusiasm. They have a physiognomy distinct from the rest of the Scottish people, and have a quick, sharp, rather angry accent. The local Scots dialect appears broad, and rich in diminutives, and is noted for the use of e for o or u, f for wh, d for th, etc. So recently as 1830 Gaelic provided the fireside language of almost every family in Braemar, but now it is little used. History The country later forming the shires of Aberdeen and Banff once served as home to the northern Picts, whom Ptolemy called Taixall, dubbing.
Act of Parliament - House, and is a further opportunity to amend the bill. Third reading: A debate on the final text of the bill, as amended. Very rarely do debates occur during this stage. Passage: The Bill is then sent to the other House (to the Senate, if it originated in the House of Commons; to the Commons, if it is a Senate Bill), which may amend it. If the other House amends the Bill, the Bill and amendments are sent back to the original House for a further stage. Consideration of Senate/Commons Amendments: The House in which the bill originated considers the amendments made in the other House. It may agree to them, amend them, propose other amendments in lieu or reject them. If each House insists on disagreeing with the other, the.
Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg - judicial rights which aroused considerable irritation among neighbouring rulers. In 1457 he arranged a marriage between his eldest son John, and Margaret, daughter of William III, landgrave of Thuringia, who inherited the claims upon Hungary and Bohemia of her mother, a granddaughter of the emperor Sigismund. The attempt to secure these thrones for the Hohenzollerns through this marriage failed, and a similar fate befell Albert's efforts to revive in his own favour the disused title of duke of Franconia. The sharp dissensions which existed among the princes over the question of reform culminated in open warfare in 1460, when Albert was confronted with a league under the leadership of the Count Palatine, Frederick I, and Louis IX, duke of Bavaria-Landshut. Worsted in this struggle, which was concluded in 1462, Albert made.
Aylsham - Saxon thane called Aegel around 500 AD. The town is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Elesham and Ailesham, said to be derived from Aegel's Ham, with a population of about 1,000. Until the 15th century, the linen and worsted industry was important here, as well as in North Walsham and Worstead, and 'Aylsham Web' or 'cloth of Aylsham' was supplied to the royal palaces of Edward II and III. John of Gaunt was Lord of the manor from 1372 and Aylsham became the principal town of the Duchy of Lancaster. Although John of Gaunt probably never came to Aylsham the townspeople enjoyed many privileges, including exemption from jury service outside the manor and payment of certain taxes. In 1519 Henry VIII granted a market on Saturdays and an.
Battle of Rocroi - arranged with two lines of infantry in the centre, squadrons of cavalry on each wing, with a thin line of artillery at the front. The Spanish army was similarly arranged, but with its infantry in their traditional tercios. The battle began at dawn: the French infantry was worsted by the Spanish, and the cavalry on the French left was also ineffective. But the calvary on the French right wing, under the command of Gassion, routed the Spanish cavalry opposite, and Condé was able to follow this up by a huge cavalry encirclement around the entire Spanish rear. The tercios. stuck in the middle, were unable to break out and were mown down by the French artillery. ..
Cloth - artificial fibres, in many varying strengths and degrees of durability, from the finest gossamer fabrics to sturdy canvas sailcloths. The relative thickness of fibres in cloth is measured in deniers. Different types of fabric include felt, satin, calico, worsted and denim. The natural fibres used include cotton, wool, flax, and hemp; common artificial fibres are polyester and rayon. See also: textile.
Claudius Salmasius - declined to suppress it. In November 1649 appeared the work by which Salmasius is best remembered, his Defensio regia pro Carolo I. His advice had already been sought on English and Scottish affairs, and, inclining to Presbyterianism or a modified Episcopacy, he had written against the Independents. It does not appear by whose influence he was induced to undertake the Defensio regia, but Charles II defrayed the expense of printing, and presented the author with £100. The first edition was anonymous, but the author was universally known. A French translation which speedily appeared under the name of Claude Le Gros was the work of Salmasius himself. This celebrated work, in our day principally famous for the reply it provoked from John Milton, even in its own time added little to the.
Covenanter - Warriston, to revive the National Covenant of 1581. Additional matter intended to suit the document to the special circumstances of the time was added, and the covenant was adopted and signed by a large gathering in Greyfriars churchyard, Edinburgh, on the 28th of February 1638, after which copies were sent throughout the country for additional signatures. The subscribers engaged by oath to maintain religion in the state in which it existed in 1580, and to reject all innovations introduced since that time, while professed expressions of loyalty to the king were added. The General Assembly of 1638 was composed of ardent Covenanters, and in 1640 the covenant was adopted by the Scots parliament, and its subscription was required from all citizens. Before this date the Covenanters were usually referred to as.
Cottingley - the home of the fairies will still be there when you recount the tales to your own children! Since the early days, the village of Cottingley has grown to over 4,500 (1991 Census figure 4,649) and is well supported by local bus routes to the major local towns such as Bingley and Shipley as well as the Cities of Leeds and Bradford and over to Keighley. Unlike nearby Saltaire which grew to support the Industrial Revolution under Sir Titus Salt, Cottingley never had a major local industry besides the tannery at Cottingley Mill which underwent a number of transformations after it became a worsted mill. In actual fact, managers from Saltaire did settle in Cottingley after seeing its beautiful location. Families are well catered for with local services and The Parade.
Skirt and dress - At its simplest, a skirt can be a draped garment made out of a single piece of material, but most skirts are tailored, with gores, pleats, or panels, of light to mid-weight fabrics, such as denim, jersey, worsted, or poplin. Some medieval upper-class women wore skirts over 3 metres in diameter at the bottom. At the other extreme, the miniskirts of the 1960s were minimal garments that might not even cover the groin fully. A dress is a garment consisting of a skirt with a bodice attached. Skirts and dresses of thin or clingy fabrics are worn with slips to make the material of the skirt drape better. In Europe and America skirts and dresses can be worn by females of all ages when they are not wearing pants. A skirt.
Spinning Jenny - and the poor weavers were delivered from the bondage in which they had lain from the insolence of spinners. Nevertheless the usefulness of the jenny was of a restricted kind. It did not make the rovings, which had still to be spun on the ordinary wheel, and to be supplied to the jenny for conversion into yarn. Above all, the yarn spun by the jenny was fit only for weft, and unless a yarn hard enough for warp had been produced in other ways afterwards, there would have been no cotton manufacture strictly so called. But the revolution which the spinning jenny produced in the manufacture as it then existed was, of course, immense. Hargreaves is supposed to have invented the jenny about 1764, and certainly by 1767 he had so.
Stefan Czarniecki - an active part in all the subsequent wars with the Cossacks and received more disfiguring wounds than any other commander. When Charles X of Sweden invaded Poland in 1655, Czarniecki distinguished himself by his heroic defence of Cracow, which he only surrendered under the most honourable conditions. His energy and ability as a leader of guerillas hampered Charles X at every step, and though frequently worsted he from time to time inflicted serious defeats upon the Swedes, notably at Jaroslaw and at Kozienice in 1656. Under his direction the popular rising against the invader ultimately proved triumphant. It was he who brought King John Casimir back from exile and enabled him to regain his lost kingdom. It was against his advice that the great battle of Warsaw was fought, and his.
Peloponnesian War - an outbreak of plague (possibly typhus) wiped out roughly one quarter of the Athenian population, including Pericles and his sons. After the death of Pericles, his successor, Cleon, began fortifying posts around the Peloponnese, and began raiding along its coasts. One of these posts was at Pylos, where the course of the first war was decided. Cleon won a great victory at the Battle of Pylos and the related Battle of Sphacteria in 425 BC, where he captured between 300 and 400 Spartan hoplites. The Spartans, with many of their men taken prisoner, began to press for peace; but the Athenians were now more resolute. Brasidas, a Spartan general, raised an army of allies and helots and went for one of the sources of Athenian power, capturing the Athenian colony of.
Plush - pile the same as fustian or velvet. Originally the pile of plush consisted of mohair or worsted yarn, but now silk by itself or with a cotton backing is used for plush, the distinction from velvet being found in the longer and less dense pile of plush. The material is largely used for upholstery and furniture purposes, and is also much employed in dress and millinery. Modern plush is commonly manufacutred from synthetic fibres such as polyester. Small stuffed animals made from plush fabric, such as teddy bears, are known as plushies. Initial article taken from a 1911 encyclopedia.
Oakworth Hall - Haworth. The Hall is a grade II listed building and is subject to a Preservation Order. The History of the Hall 1066 Mentioned in the Doomsday Book as the Manor of Oakworth. It was given by William the Conqueror to Gilbert Tyson a Norman Knight who came across to England and fought alongside King William at the Battle of Hastings. 1366 Property of the de Vaux family who were probably decendants of the Tyson family. The de Vaux families' main seat was Vaxhall (Vaux Hall, in South East London. They had large properties in Northern England from South Yorkshire up to Hadrian's Wall. Thomas de Vaux was Chancellor of Richard I during the Crusade to the Holy Land. 1598 Alvery Copley, the last member of the de Vaux family, died and.
