mildew (mildu)

[Early mod. E. also mel dewe; IMG:content-0619.png:[merged small][merged small][ocr errors] Powdery Mildew, magnified. 1. Erysiphe communis , upon the epidermis of the leaf of Lupinus perennis, a, the sporocarp and mycelium; b, conidia bearing hypha c, an ascus, containing eight ascospores. mildew 3760 militancy Modena Italian Miles. Reggio Genoa. Lombardy German Miles. Meters. German Miles -continued. 1593 Hanover 1569 Saxony 1488 Brunswick 1785 Baden 2226 Austria IMG:content-0620.png:[blocks in formation] Meters. 7419 7419 2058.1292 IMG:content-0621.png:[blocks in formation] militou, MHG. miltou, G. mehlthau = Sw. mjöl dagg = Dan. meldug -the form mele-, D. meel-, etc., simulating melu, etc., = E. meall ), honeydew, milisc, mylisc, milsc, mylsc, melsc, honeyed, sweet, mellow, = Icel. milska, a honeyed drink), + deaw, dew. The first element Naples is disputed, the word having early perished in Rome independent use; but no other explanation than Tuscany. that here given is plausible.] 1. A minute Sicily parasitic fungus which frequently appears on the leaves, stems, and various other parts of plants or other decaying organic substances as a white frost-like down, or in spots or with various discolorations. The name is more properly restricted to the Erysipheæ, or powdery mildews, and the Per ono sporeæ, or downy mildews. The Uredineæ, of which Puccinia gram in is, the corn mildew of England, is the type, are more properly rusts. (See rust, Uredine a.) The mildews are among the most destructive fungi known. Pero nospora viticola is the very destructive American downy mildew of the grape, and Uncinula amp elops i dis, of which the so-called Oidium Tuckeri is the conidial form, is the powdery mildew of the grape. Phytophthora infestans is the downy mildew of the potato, causing the disease known as potato rot. Erysiphe communis is a very IMG:content-0622.png:[blocks in formation] Shak., W. T., iv. 2 (song). He had ridden five Staff ords hire miles . Robin Hoods Birth (Child's Ballads, V. 349), Geographical or nautical mile, a mile variously defined as: (1) the mean length of a minute of latitude = 6,082.66 feet; (2) the length of a minute of the meridian corresponding to the radius of curvature of the particular latitude, varying from 6,045.95 feet at the equator to 6,107.85 feet at poles; and the length of a minute the equator = 6,087.15 feet. To remove all uncertainty, the United States Coast Survey has adopted the value of the nautical mile as equal to one sixtieth part of the length of a degree on the great circle of a sphere whose surface is equal to the surface of the earth. This value gives one nautical mile = 6,080.27 feet, which is nearly the of the Admiralty knot (6,080 feet) adopted by the British Hydrographic Office. - Three-mile limit, belt, or zone (also called the marine belt ), in international law, that part of the margin of the high seas which is within the jurisdiction of the nation po e ing the coast, originally determined by the circumstance that, at the time this limit became generally recognized, a marine league approximated fairly to the distance at which cannon on the shore would serve to command the water. 1 Whart. Dig. Int. Law, 114, § 32.