Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Vol. 2: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge; Beaugency to Cataract (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

William And Robert Chambers

 
9780666190635: Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Vol. 2: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge; Beaugency to Cataract (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Chambers's Encyclopaedia<br/><br/>Bedeguar (persian and Arabic bdddwar, literally 'wind-brought sometimes explained as made up of Persian bad, wind,' and Arabic ward, rose a remarkable Gall of roundish sha e, but covered with shaggy branched processes, li e those familiar in the moss-rose, often found on the branches of various species of rose, particularly of the sweet-brier, upon which account it is some times called sweet-brier sponge. Although of course sharing the astringent properties of galls in general, it has long ceased to be of any medicinal repute....

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