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WEDGWOOD WARE 



NOAH WEBSTER 

 He gave to America 



the 

 Diction- 



Dictionary of the English Language, in the 

 preparation of which he spent a year in Europe. 

 It was an enormous task that Webster under- 

 took, since the first edition included twelve 

 thousand words and forty thousand definitions 

 that had never 

 appeared in any 

 similar publica- 

 tion. The first 

 edition was fin- 

 ished in 1828, and 

 in 1840 a second 

 edition was pub- 

 lished. In its 

 rd and 



enlarged form, 

 Webster's Inter- 

 national Diction- 

 ary is still a 



standard au- original Webster's 

 thority. Webster ary> 



moved to Amherst, Mass., in 1812, and while 

 living there helped to found Amherst College. 

 Ten years later he moved to New Haven, Conn., 

 where he died. See DICTIONARY. 



WEBSTER, MASS., a town in the south- 

 central part of the state, in Worcester County, 

 i miles southwest of Worcester, thirty- 

 nine miles northwest of Providence, R. I., and 

 fifty-nine miles southwest of Boston. It is on 

 the French River, and is served by the New 

 York, New Haven & Hartford and the Boston 

 A Albany railroads and by interurban lines. 

 The town, which includes several villages, cov- 

 ers an area of more than thirteen square miles. 

 Webster has large mills, run by the power of 

 the river, which manufacture textiles, shoes, 

 tobacco products, machinery and tools. The 

 city was named for Daniel Webster. It was 

 incorporated in 1832. Population in 1910, 11,- 

 509; in 1916, 13,210 (Federal estimate). 



WEBSTER - ASHBURTON TREATY, a 

 d by Daniel Webster and Lord 

 uler Baring Ashburton, representing the 

 i States and England, respectively. It 

 was signed in Washington in August, 1842, and 

 fixed the boundary line between Canada and 

 the state of Maine. The United States got 

 A. Inh- of the disputed land, but Eng- 

 land got the better military frontier. Provi- 

 for endme ding were included in 



the eighth and ninth articles, and the extradi- 

 tion of criminals was agreed on in th< 

 The treaty settled a long-standing and 

 dispute between England and the United 



See map of the Maine boundary claims, page 

 3607. 



WEDGE, wedj, a word derived from the old 

 English, meaning a moss of metal, is applied 

 to a combination of two inclined planes which 

 form a block broad at one end and inclined to 

 a thin edge at the other. It is used largely to 



A WEDGE 

 At the left, one of the uses to which it is put. 



split logs and rocks. When driven with a mal- 

 let into a cut or fissure the wedge exerts a great 

 pressure in a small space. It is an instance 

 where friction is an advantage, since the fric- 

 tion is great enough to hold the wedge in place 

 in spite of the pressure. 



In meteorology the term denotes a narrow, 

 high-pressure belt between two cyclonic whirls. 



WEDGWOOD, wej' wood, WARE, the name 

 given the beautiful, high-grade ware produced 

 by England's most famous potter, Josiah Wedg- 

 wood. At first he made experiments with the 

 popular cream-colored earthenware of the pe- 



SPECIMENS OF WEDGWOOD WARE 



Tho clishos are light blue In color, with figures 

 in white cameo. 



riod, and these efforts resulted in the creation 

 of a new kind of pot ten- which he called 

 m honor of Queen Charlotte, wife of 

 George III. This was made in various shades 

 of cream, saffron and straw, and was used for 

 dinner and dessert services and for tea and 

 coffee sets. The most important classes which 

 followed were Egyptian black, or basaltcs, used 

 for medallion vases, busts, seals and 



similar objects; red ware, or Russo antico, used 

 for cameo reliefs; white semi porcelain, or line 

 stoneware, distinguished for its smooth sun 

 variegated ware, showing a combination of 

 many different colors; and jasper, representing 



