SERGY NIKOLAEVICH See also:

• GLINKA, FEDOR NIKOLAEVICH (1788-1849)
• GLINKA, MICHAEL IVANOVICH (1803-18s7)
• GLINKA, S
• SERGY NIKOLAEVICH GLINKA (1774-1847)

GLINKA (1774-1847)  , See also:

• RUSSIAN

Russian author, the See also:

• ELDER (0. Eng. ellarn; Ger. Holunder; Fr. sureau)
• ELDER (Gr. 1rpev(3iTepos)

elder See also:

• BROTHER

brother of Fedor N . See also:

• GLINKA, FEDOR NIKOLAEVICH (1788-1849)
• GLINKA, MICHAEL IVANOVICH (1803-18s7)
• GLINKA, S
• GLINKA, SERGY NIKOLAEVICH (1774-1847)

Glinka, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• SMOLENSK

Smolensk in 1774 . In 1796 he entered the Russian See also:

• ARMY
• ARMY (from Fr. armee, Lat. armata)

army, but after three years' service retired with the See also:

• RANK (O.Fr. rant or rent, mod. rang, generally connected with the O.E. and O.H.G. bring, a ring)

rank of See also:

• MAJOR
• MAJOR (Lat. for " greater ")
• MAJOR (or MAIR), JOHN (1470-1550)

major . He afterwards employed himself in the See also:

• EDUCATION

education of youth and in See also:

• LITERARY

literary pursuits, first in the See also:

• UKRAINE (" frontier ")

Ukraine, and subsequently at See also:

• MOSCOW (Russian Moskva)
• MOSCOW, (Russian Moskva)

Moscow, where he died in 1847 . His poems are spirited and patriotic; he wrote also several dramatic pieces,; and translated See also:

• YOUNG
• YOUNG, A
• YOUNG, ARTHUR (1741-1820)
• YOUNG, BRIGHAM (1801-1877)
• YOUNG, CHARLES MAYNE (1777–1856)
• YOUNG, EDWARD (1683–1765)
• YOUNG, JAMES (1811-1883)
• YOUNG, THOMAS (1773-1829)

Young's See also:

• NIGHT

Night Thoughts . Among his numerous See also:

• PROSE

prose See also:

• WORKS

works the most important from an See also:

• HISTORICAL

historical point of view are: Russkoe Chtenie (Russian See also:

• READING

Reading : Historical Memorials of See also:

• RUSSIA
• RUSSIA (Rossiya)

Russia in the 28th and zgth Centuries) (2 vols., 1845) ; Istoriya Rossii, &c . (See also:

• HISTORY

History of Russia for the use of Youth) (to vols., 1817-1819, 2nd ed . 1822, 3rd ed . 1824); Istoriya Armyan, &c . (History of the See also:

• MIGRATION

Migration of the Armenians of Azerbijan from See also:

• TURKEY

Turkey to Russia) (1831); and his contributions to the Russky Vyestnik (Russian Messenger), a monthly periodical, edited by him from 1808 to 1820 . GLOBE-See also:

• FISH (O. Eng. fist, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch visch, Ger. Fisch, Goth. fisks, cognate with the Lat. piscis)
• FISH, HAMILTON (1808-1893)

FISH, or See also:

• SEA (in O. Eng. sae, a common Teutonic word; cf. Ger. See, Dutch Zee, &c.; the ultimate source is uncertain)
• SEA, COMMAND OF THE

SEA-See also:

• HEDGEHOG, or URCHIN

HEDGEHOG, the names by which some sea-fishes are known, which have the remarkable See also:

• FACULTY (through the French, from the Lat. facultas, ability to do anything, from facilis, easy, facere, to do; another form of the word in Lat. facilitas, facility, ease, keeps the original meaning)

faculty of inflating their stomachs with See also:

• AIR (from an Indo-European root meaning " breathe," " blow ")
• AIR, or ASBEN

air . They belong to the families Diodontidae and Tetrodontidae .

Their jaws resemble the See also:

• SHARP, GRANVILLE (1735-1813)
• SHARP, JAMES (1618-1679)
• SHARP, JOHN (1645-1714)
• SHARP, RICHARD (1759-1835)
• SHARP, WILLIAM (1749-1824)
• SHARP, WILLIAM (1856-1905)

sharp See also:

• BEAK (early forms beke and becke, from Fr. bec, late Lat. beccus, supposed to be a Gaulish word; the Celtic bec and beq, however, are taken from the English)

beak of a See also:

• PARROT (according to Skeat, from Fr. Perrot or Pies-rot, the diminutive of the proper name Pierrel)

parrot, the bones and See also:

• TEETH (O.E. Eel); plural of tooth, O.E. top)

teeth being coalesced into one See also:

• MASS (O.E. maesse; Fr. messe; Ger. Messe; Ital. messa; from eccl. Lat. missa)
• MASS, IN

mass with a sharp edge . In the Diodonts there is no mesial See also:

• DIVISION (from Lat. dividere, to break up into parts, separate)

division of the jaws, whilst in the Tetrodonts such a division exists, so that they appear to have two teeth above and two below . By means of these jaws they are able to break off branches of See also:

• CORALS (KoRAis), ADAMANTIOS [in French, DIAMANT CORAY] (1748–1833)

corals, and to masticate other hard substances on which they feed . Usually they are of a See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short, thick, cylindrical shape, with powerful fins (fig . O., Their See also:

• BODY

body is covered with thick skin, without scales, but provided with variously formed spines, the See also:

• SIZE

size and extent of which vary in the different See also:

• SPECIES

species . When they inflate their capacious stomachs with air, they assume a globular. See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form, and the spines protrude, forming a more or less formidable defensive See also:

• ARMOUR, PHILIP DANFORTH (1832-1901)

armour (fig . 2) . A fish thus blown out deleterious qualities to other fish . They are most numerous between the tropics and in the seas contiguous to them, but a few species live in large See also:

• RIVERS
• RIVERS, ANTHONY WOODVILLE, or WYDEVILLE, 2ND EARL (c. 1442—1483)
• RIVERS, EARL
• RIVERS, RICHARD SAVAGE, 4TH EARL (c. 1660—1712)

rivers, as, for instance, the Tetrodon fahaka, a fish well known to all travellers on the See also:

• NILE
• NILE, BATTLE OF THE
• NILE, SOBAT

Nile . Nearly too different species are known .