[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.