Many names for pubs that appear nonsensical may have come from corruptions of old slogans or phrases, such as " The Bag o ' Nails " ( Bacchanals ), " The Goat and Compasses " ( God Encompasseth Us ), " The Cat and the Fiddle " ( Caton Fidèle ) and " The Bull and Bush ", which purportedly celebrates the victory of Henry VIII at " Boulogne Bouche " or Boulogne-sur-Mer Harbour.

Compasses on sailboats may have additional lubber lines at forty-five degrees from the centerline.

* Compasses: A compass ( or mariner's compass ) is a magnetized pointer free to align itself with a magnetic field, most commonly Earth's magnetic field.

Compasses can measure not just azimuth ( i. e. degrees to magnetic north ), but also altitude ( degrees above the horizon ), since the magnetic field curves into the Earth at different angles at different latitudes.

Compasses are usually made of metal, and consist of two parts connected by a hinge which can be adjusted.

After 1564, when Plantin set up again in a new shop at the sign of De Gulden Passer (" The Golden Compasses ") the printers mark of the House of Plantin, which often appeared in a vignette on the title page of books from the press, depicts a compass, angels, and the motto Labore et Constancia (" By Labor and Constancy ") which epitomizes the life of the publisher.

The red cross of the above form, in Scandinavia known as a St_George % 27s_Cross # St_George. 27s_Cross_in_Sweden | St George's cross, is a commonly used symbol for Freemasonry in the Swedish Rite, alongside the internationally otherwise more common Square and Compasses | square and compasses.

Compasses of the style commonly used for hiking usually include a " baseplate " marked with a bezel that includes a graduated scale of degrees along with the four cardinal directions.

Compasses can be used for mathematics, drafting, navigation, and other purposes.

The village developed along what is now Hornsey High Street, and in the seventeenth century it was bisected by the New River that crossed the village in three places: first at the end of Nightingale Lane, secondly from behind the Three Compasses and lastly, as it does now, at the bottom of Tottenham Lane.

It also is inscribed with the Square and Compasses of the Freemasons, along with a listing of the two Grand Lodges of Freemasonry in Colorado.

The Masonic Square and Compasses.

It goes through Bayston Hill, passing the Compasses Inn.

Statue with Square and Compasses | initiatic purposes on the campus of Alameda in LisbonInstituto Superior Técnico ( IST ) was created in 1911 from the division of the Industrial and Commercial Institute of Lisbon.

The Compasses Inn, next to the A49 road ( England ) | A49, is one of three pubs in Bayston Hill.

Within the village are three public houses, The Three Fishes, the Compasses Inn and The Beeches.

* Goat and Compasses: Believed by some to be a corrupted version of the phrase " God encompasseth us ", but more likely to be based on the arms of the Worshipful Company of Cordwainers.

* Compasses, Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire, dates from the 17th Century.

The Square and Compasses, a large Masonic symbol built of concrete, was added to the memorial in 1999.

Although twin sidewalks used to run directly up the eastern slope of Shooter's Hill toward the memorial's front steps, these were partially replaced by curving cement paths and a large Square and Compasses ( the Masonic symbol ) in a landscaped setting.

Compasses are used to determine the direction of true North.

In addition, they have been converted to Zen Buddhism, with its glorification of all that is `` natural '' and mysteriously alive, the sense that everything in the world is flowing.

I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

Again the student of evolutionary biology will find a fascinating, if to our minds grotesque, anticipation of the theory of chance variations and the natural elimination of the unfit in Lucretius, who in turn seems to have borrowed the concept from the philosopher Empedocles.

Graceful as his fencing and dancing lessons had taught him to be in addition to the natural grace of his slight, wiry frame, he cut enough of a figure to have evoked a nickname in the college, to which he himself referred in Prolusion 6::

The consequences, of course, have been dreadful: reckless expansion has led to overpopulation, pollution of the earth and depletion of its natural resources.

Under this program, property sales specialists in the Small Business Administration regional offices help small business concerns to locate Federal property for sale and insure that small firms have the opportunity to bid competitively for surplus personal and real property and certain natural resources, including timber from the national forests.

These registries are sponsored by 18 national medical, dental, and veterinary societies and have as their mission the assembling of selected cases of interest to military medicine and of establishing through the mechanism of follow-up of living patients the natural history of various diseases of military-medical importance.

The spectacular upsurge in pleasure boating is markedly evident, expectedly, in the areas where boats have always been found: the natural lakes, rivers, and along the nation's coastline.

It encompasses in its expanse areas where the natural beauty encourages a vacation of quiet contemplation, on the one hand, to places where entertainment and spectacles of all sorts have been provided for the tourist with camera.

If your pool is located on or near sloping ground, it may have natural drainage which is certainly more desirable than to be faced with the annual expense and labor of first pumping out the water and then scooping out all the debris.

Some agents have been shown to be much more toxic or infectious to experimental animals when exposed to aerosols of optimum particle size than by the natural portal.

On the other hand, the women class members appeared to reach a far greater understanding than have women members in other sections that it is more natural for males as a group to view sex as sex rather than always associating it with love as most women seem to do.

-- The results of microanalysis of tektites ( natural glasses of unknown origin ) for gallium and germanium have shown that these glasses are probably produced from terrestrial ( or less likely from lunar ) matter by impact of a celestial body.

Furthermore, the thin film dynodes appear to have a natural diameter limitation wherever a mesh support cannot be tolerated.

but why did the Old Chinese postulate five elements, when the Ancient Near East -- which may have initiated the idea that natural elements exerted influence in human life and activities -- recognized only four??

`` You seem to have read so much, you have a natural gift for words '', he added, trying to flatter her vanity.

Generally, the social sciences have attempted to develop scientific methods to understand social phenomena in a generalizable way, although usually with methods distinct from those of the natural sciences.

They have two main commercial sources: crude oil and natural gas.

She is also the only one in Poirot's universe to have noted that " It ’ s not natural for five or six people to be on the spot when B is murdered and all have a motive for killing B.

Astronomy, history, linguistics, and the natural sciences are among the myriad fields that have benefited from the activities of amateurs.

He may have died from natural causes, though there were unconfirmed rumors that his wife Livia poisoned him.

Therefore each pearl, natural or cultured, will have its own unique collage of colours.

According to Tylor, animism often includes " an idea of pervading life and will in nature "; i. e., a belief that natural objects other than humans have souls.