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Ismaelian
Ismaelian Is`ma*e"li*an, Ismaelite Is"ma*el*ite, n. (Eccl.) One of a sect of Mohammedans who favored the pretensions of the family of Mohammed ben Ismael, of the house Ali.
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Wart hog Wart" hog` (Zo["o]l.) Either one of two species of large, savage African wild hogs of the genus Phacoch[oe]rus. These animals have a pair of large, rough, fleshy tubercles behind the tusks and second pair behind the eyes. The tusks are large and strong, and both pairs curve upward. The body is scantily covered with bristles, but there is long dorsal mane. The South African species (Phacoch[oe]rus [AE]thiopicus) is the best known. Called also vlacke vark. The second species (P. [AE]liani) is native of the coasts of the Red Sea.

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- Aelian or Aeli**** may refer to: Aeli**** Tacticus, 2nd-century Gr**** military writer in Rome Casperius Aeli**** (13–98 AD), Praetorian Prefect, executed...
- Gr**** transliteration Kláudios Ailianós; c. 175 – c. 235 AD), commonly Aelian (/ˈiːliən/), born at Praeneste, was a Roman author and teacher of rhetoric...
- Τακτικός; fl. 2nd century AD), also known as Aelian (/ˈiːliən/), was a Gr**** military writer who lived in Rome. Aelian's military treatise in fifty-three chapters...
- sibling). He was described as a young boy of stunning beauty. According to Aelian, although Nerites was never mentioned by epic poets such as Homer and Hesiod...
- love, or drowned. She was drowned. Aelian says that Phaon was killed by a man whom he was cuckolding. Aside from Aelian, Phaon's story is told by Ovid and...
- history by various writers, including Ctesias, Strabo, Pliny the Younger, Aelian, and Cosmas Indicopleustes. The Bible also describes an animal, the re'em...
- Ponte Sant'Angelo, originally the Aelian Bridge or Pons Aelius, is a Roman bridge in Rome, Italy, completed in 134 AD by Roman Emperor Hadrian (Publius...
- flaming pigs were recorded by the Gr**** military writer Polyaenus and by Aelian. Both writers reported that Antigonus II Gonatas' siege of Megara in 266...
- (Τάρανδος). It was also mentioned in Pliny's History of the Animals (Tarandus), Aelian's De Natura Animalium (Tarandos), Solinus (Parandrus) and Caesar, appearing...
- filled with honey, which was in turn placed in a gold casket. According to Aelian, a seer called Aristander foretold that the land where Alexander was laid...