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Physiology: Going Their Separate Ways

Going Their Separate WaysAnatomy and PhysiologyCardiovascular and Lymphatic CirculationVessels To and FroHere, There, EverywhereGoing Their Separate WaysOh, the Pressure!Drainage System The most…

Owen, Robert Dale

(Encyclopedia) Owen, Robert Dale, 1801–77, American social reformer, b. Scotland; son of Robert Owen. He studied at his father's New Lanark school and in Switzerland. In 1825 he went to New Harmony,…

conscience

(Encyclopedia) conscience, sense of moral awareness or of right and wrong. The concept has been variously explained by moralists and philosophers. In the history of ethics, the conscience has been…

nonintercourse

(Encyclopedia) nonintercourse, in international law, refusal of a state to engage in diplomatic or commercial relations with another state. It is a hostile act of retaliation for some wrong and is…

Way of the Gun

Director/Writer:Christopher McQuarrieArtesian Entertainment; 120 minutes; RRelease:9/00Cast:Ryan Phillippe, Benicio Del Toro, Juliette Lewis Way of the Gun opens with a strong, idiosyncratic…

Brewer's: Wrong End of the Stick

(You have got hold of the). You have quite misapprehended the matter; you have got the wrong sow by the ear. There is another form of this phrase which…

Brewer's: Wrong Side of the Blanket

(The). (See Blanket.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Wrong Side of the ClothWrong End of the Stick A B C D E F G H I…

Brewer's: Wrong Side of the Cloth

(That is the). The inferior aspect. In French, l'envers du drap. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Wrong Sow by the…

Brewer's: Wrong Sow by the Ear

(You have the). You have made a mistake in choice, come to the wrong shop or box; or misapprehended the subject. Pigs are caught by the ear. (See Sow…