The Imperial Dictionary: English Technological and Scientific (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Imperial Dictionary: English Technological and Scientific<br><br>Pythagoras. Indies South Africa and elsewhere. Allaria the monkey-pot tree. Pythag''orize v. I. To speculate They sometimes attain a length of after the manner of Pythagoras. Thirty feet. They are not venomous pyth''ian a. [from Pythia the priestess of Apollo.] Pertaining to the priestess of Apollo who delivered oracles. - Pythian games one of the four great national festivals of Greece celebrated every fifth year in honour of Apollo near Delphi.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.