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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 4 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1 4 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 2 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 2 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 2 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition. 2 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10 2 0 Browse Search
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ver, extensively employed during the Middle Ages, and was in use as late as the sixteenth century, when attempts were made to improve it by attaching a pistol to the handle. a, battle-axe from Dr. Abbott's collection of Egyptian antiquities in New York; made of bronze, firmly bound to its original handle by means of slender interlaced thongs of leather. It was found at Thebes. The other figures represent battle-axes, more or less rude, of the times known as the Roman period and the Middle Ages. Battle-dore. 1. (Glass-making.) A flat wooden paddle, used in flatting glass while still plastic, as in making the flat bottoms of decanters, etc. 2. An instrument of play, having a handle and a flat surface, or palm, formed of a hoop, and stretched parchment covers. It is used in playing shuttlecock. Bat′tle-ment. （Architecture.) An open or interrupted parapet on the roof of a building. A parapet with embrasures. Bauge. （Fabric.) A French fabric made with th<