STUCCO 



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STURGEON 



a surfacing for the exterior of buildings. That 

 used for inside decorating is a fine plaster com- 

 posed of gypsum and glue water or of pulver- 

 ized white marble and fine sand, gypsum and 

 water. It lends itself readily to polishing and 

 finishing and gives beautiful effects. Imitation 

 marble is a form of stucco. Stucco was em- 

 ployed quite generally by the Greeks and Ro- 

 mans as a decorative medium, and they often 



position buildings is known as staff (which 

 see). 



STURGEON, stur'jun, a group of large fish 

 inhabiting fresh waters and seas of the north 

 temperate zone, caught for their flesh, which is 

 usually smoked, and for their eggs, which are 

 used in the preparation of caviar (which see). 

 From the bladder of the Russian sturgeon a 

 superior quality of isinglass is obtained. These 



Robert Bruce 

 1306-1329 



Genealogical Table of the Stuarts 



See article STUART, page 5594. 



David II 

 1329-1370 



Margaret married Walter Allan 



High Steward of Scotland 



(called Walter Stewart) 



Robert II First of Stuart line 

 1370-1390 



Combined three kingdoms, 



England, Scotland and 



Ireland, under one ruler 



First Stuart King of England 



III of Orange 



who became 



William III of 



England 



shaped it while plastic to form designs in relief. 

 Exterior stucco is much coarser and contains a 

 considerable amount of cement. It is now used 

 very extensively as a surfacing material for 

 modern, houses, both for bungalows and for 

 large and pretentious homes. It has the ad- 

 vantages of being durable and attractive, and 

 it is much less expensive than stone. A cheap 

 form of plaster used in the construction of ex- 



fish have slender, elongated bodies covered 

 with rows of bony plates. There is a long 

 snout, beneath which is a small, toothless mouth 

 with thick, sucking lips. The head, like the 

 body, is well protected with plates. A single 

 dorsal fin grows on the back, and the tail is 

 forked, the lower lobe being usually shorter 

 than the upper. Most of these fish migrate 

 from salt water into streams in the spawning 



