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1 | A-B | 6 | null | Normal | 2,481 | 3,393 | ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA.VOLUME the FIRST. | ||
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1 | A-B | 8 | null | Title | 2,481 | 3,393 | \—-—■ r -dk$fltKJgkEncyclopcedia Britannica;Jama ok, a CfrH&'f /prtJDICTIONARYO FARTS and SCIENCES,C/O VI PILED UPON A NEW PLAN.IN WHICHThe diferent Sciences and Arts are digefted intodiftindl Treatifes or Syftems;AND. The \irious Technical Terms, - are explained as they occurin the order of the Alphabet.ILLUS... | ||
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1 | A-B | 10 | null | Normal | 2,481 | 3,393 | PREFACEUTILITY ought to be the principal intention of every publication.Wherever this intention does not plainly appear, neither the booksnor their authors have the finalleft claim to the approbation of mankind.To diffufe the knowledge of Science, is the profefled defign of the fol¬lowing work. What methods, it may be ... | ||
1 | A-B | 11 | null | Normal | 2,481 | 3,393 | vi PREFACE.Th e Editors, though fully fenfible of the propriety of adopting theprefent plan, were not aware of the length of time neceffary for the ex¬ecution, but engaged to begin the publication too early. However, bythe remonflrances of the Compilers, the publication was delayed for twelvemonths. Still time was want... | ||
1 | A-B | 12 | null | Normal | 2,481 | 3,393 | LIST of A U T H O R S, &c.Albini tabulae- anatomica,Alfton’s Tirocinium botanieum.--—EfTay on the fexes of plants.Bacon’s fylva fy lvarum.Balk, Laurentii, Adolpho-Fredericianum,in Amocn. Acad.Balfour’s philofophical effays.Barrow’s dictionary of arts andfciences.Bertfmud fur l’art de conduire et de re-gler les pend... | ||
1 | A-B | 13 | null | Normal | 2,456 | 3,337 | LIST of A U T H O R S, - &c.vijiHome on bl aching.Jack’s conic feCtions.JohnJloni hijloria naturalis.Jortin de plantis tinttoriis, in Arrian.Acad.Lord Kaims’s elements of criticifm.-abridgment of the ftatutes.Langley’s builder’s afllftant.Lee’s botany,Lewis’s dilpenlatory,Linnai Jyflema nature.-Amamitates academica... | ||
1 | A-B | 14 | null | Normal | 2,456 | 3,337 | Encyclopaedia Britannica;Or, A NEW and COMPLETEDICTIONARYO FARTS and SCIENCES.A BABAA A, the name of feveral rivers in different partsof the world, viz. i. of one in Solagne, inFrance; 2. of on? in French Flanders; 3. ofthree in Switzerland; 4. of five in the LowCountries; 5. of five in Weftphalia; 6. ofone in Livonia.... | ||
1 | A-B | 15 | null | Normal | 2,456 | 3,337 | ABA ( 2 ) ABBfome ornament, as a rofe or other flower. Scammozziufes abacus for a concave moulding on the capital ofthe Tufcan pedeftal; and Palladio calls the plinth a-bove the echinus, or boultin, in the Tufcan and Doricorders, by the fame name. See plate I. fig. i. andArchitecture.Abacus is alfo the name of an ancie... | ||
1 | A-B | 16 | null | Normal | 2,456 | 3,337 | ABB C 3 )forming the fpiritual-fundlions; but in the 12 th centurythere were abefles in Spain who gave benedictions, andconfefi’ed people of both fexes.ABBEVILLE, a large city of Piccardy in France, ly¬ing 90 miles north of Paris, in 50. 7. N. lat. and2. o. E. long.ABBEY, a religious houfe, governed by an abbot, wherep... | ||
1 | A-B | 17 | null | Normal | 2,456 | 3,337 | A B R. ( 4 ) A IB 1fake of their monadery, were made denifofts of allEngland (London excepted) by King John.ABERDEEN, the name of two cities in Scotland, tail¬ed the Old and New Tuvins, fituated on the GermanOcean, in i 45. W. Ion. and 57. 1I. N. lat.The old town lies about a mile to the north of thenew, at the mouth o... | ||
1 | A-B | 18 | null | Normal | 2,456 | 3,337 | A B L (5being often condemned to the mines, baniihroent, andfometiines capitally.ABIGEATUS, cr Abactus, among phyficians, Cg^nif:cs a mifearriage effected by art.ABIG1ES, a term in the Roman law, applied to onewho had been guilty of the crime Ab i g e at; which fee.ABILITY, a term in law, denoting a power of doing cer¬... | ||
1 | A-B | 19 | null | Normal | 2,456 | 3,337 | A B R (6ABRASA, in furgery, ulcers, where the Ikin is fo ten¬der and lax as to render them fubjed to abrafion.ABRASION, in medicine, tire corroding of any part byacrid humours or medicines.ABRAUM, an obfolete name of a certain fpecies of clay,called by fome authors Adamic earth, on account ofits red colour.ABRASAX, or ... | ||
1 | A-B | 20 | null | Normal | 2,456 | 3,337 | A B R (** eftablilh a belief ia its being actually reverfed: If“ his teftimony be confirmed by a few others of the“ fame character, we cannot with-hold our afi’ent to“ the truth of it. Now, though the operations of na-“ ture are governed by uniform laws, and though we“ have not the teftimony of our fenfes in favour of ... | ||
1 | A-B | 21 | null | Normal | 2,456 | 3,337 | A B S (8ABSORBENT medicines, teftaceous powders, as chalk,crabs-eyes, <bc. which are taken inwardly tor dryingup or abforbingvny acrid or redundant humours inthe ftomach or inteftines, They are likewife appliedoutwardly to ulcers or fores with the fame intention.Absorbent veffels, in anatomy, a name given promif-cuo... | ||
1 | A-B | 22 | null | Normal | 2,456 | 3,337 | A C A (9extent than it is at prefent, becaufe ferenJ provinceshave revolted, and the Turks have made encroach¬ments to the eaft. The kftd is fertile in many places,and the air is very hot, except in the rainy ieafon,and then it is very temperate. For four months in theyear, greater rains fall there than perhaps in any ... | ||
1 | A-B | 23 | null | Normal | 2,456 | 3,337 | A C A < xo ) A C Athan thofe which were inculcated by the old academyof Socrates and Plato, and the fceptical notions whichwere propagated by Arcefilas, Carneades, and the o-ther difciples of the fucceeding academics.ACADEMY, in antiquity, a garden or villa, fituatedwithin a mile of Athens, where Plato' and his... | ||
1 | A-B | 24 | null | Normal | 2,456 | 3,337 | A C A ( n ) A C Amatters, who meet once a-month ; and two of the aca-demifts teach by turns the art of dancing, ancient andmodern.The French have alfo academies in mod of theirgreat cities, as, the Academy of Sciences at Mont¬pelier, that of the Lanternifts at Thouloufe; befidesothers at Nifmes, Arles, Angiers, Lyons, ... | ||
1 | A-B | 25 | null | Normal | 2,456 | 3,337 | A C A ( rACANTHINE, any thing refembling or belonging tothe herb acanthus. Acanthine garments, among theancients, are faici to be made of the down cf thiilles;others think, they were garments embroidered in imi¬tation of the acanthus.ACANTHI UM, in botany, the trivial name of a fpe-cies of onopordum. See Onopokdum.ACAN... | ||
1 | A-B | 26 | null | Normal | 2,456 | 3,337 | ACC (i•body. It inhabits the potatoes of Surinam. 23. Thegymnopterorum, is reddiffi, with two fcarlet fpots oneach fide. It inhabits bees, fee. 24. The coleop-tratorum, is reddiffi, with a white anus. It inhabitsthe fcarabaeus. 25. The rupeftris, is ycllowiffi, witha double coloured line on the back. It is a native ofE... | ||
1 | A-B | 27 | null | Normal | 2,456 | 3,337 | ACC ( 14 ) ACCAccent, in mufic, is a certain modulation of founds toexprefs a pailion, whether by the voice or iiiftruments.See Music.ACCENTER, in mufic, one of the three fingers in atrio, viz. the perfon who fings the higheit part. SeeTrio.ACCEPTANCE, in Scots law, denotes either a per-fon’s adhibiting his fubfcriptio... | ||
1 | A-B | 28 | null | Normal | 2,456 | 3,337 | ACC ( :ten in fortification ufe it for the lahu of a rampart.ACCLOYED, in farriery, fignifies pricked. Thus ahorfe’s foot pricked in (hoeing, is laid to be accloyed.ACCOL.A, among the Romans, fignified that a perfonlived near fome place.ACCOLADE, in antiquity, one of the forms of con¬ferring knighthood, in which the pr... | ||
1 | A-B | 29 | null | Normal | 2,456 | 3,337 | JACC ( 16 ) ACEACCOUNTANT-GENERAL, a new officer in thecourt of Chancery appointed by a<ft of parliament toreceive all moneys lodged in court inftead of the ma¬ilers, and convey the fame to the bank of England forfecurity.ACCOUNTING-HOUSE, counting-houfe, or compt-ing-houfe, is a houfe, or office, fet apart by a mer... | ||
1 | A-B | 30 | null | Normal | 2,551 | 3,337 | J3!Site I. | ||
1 | A-B | 31 | null | Normal | 2,521 | 3,337 | 1*1 ate IIV//. 1. A CHILMJA X CXBILTS O./foyi/’t Sanf// 4/u'r/1AC01^ITLTMrYR F.NA1C’ IIMyw//f | ||
1 | A-B | 32 | null | Normal | 2,521 | 3,337 | A C H( 17 )C Hnotes a Roman meafure, both for IrquiU. and drythings, equal to a cyathus and a haJf.ACETABULUM, in anatomy, a cavity in any bone forreceiving the protuberant head of another, and therebyforming that fpecies of articulation called enarthrdfis.See Anatomy, Part I.Acetabulum, in botany, the trivial name of ... | ||
1 | A-B | 33 | 18 | 68 | Normal | 2,466 | 3,328 | A Cl ( 18ACHLAR, a river in America, called Jr axis by theancients.ACHLIS. See Machlis,ACHLYS, in medicine, a dimnefs of fight, arifing fromany fear remaining after an ulcer in the cornea. Itis alfo ufed for the diforder called a fuffufton of theuterus.ACHMETSCHET, a town of the peninfula of theCrimea, the refidence of... | |
1 | A-B | 34 | 19 | null | Normal | 2,466 | 3,328 | AGORoman church, viz. the religious of the holy facra-ment, who keep up a perpetual adoration, fome oneor other of them praying before the holy facrament,day and night.ACOLASTRE, a fmall river of France in the Nivernois.ACOLCHICHI, in ornythology, a barbarous name ofthe phoenicopterus, a bird of the order of grails. Se... | |
1 | A-B | 35 | 20 | null | Normal | 2,466 | 3,328 | A C 11ACQUEST, or Acquist, inlaw, figuifies goods gotby purcliafe or donation. See Conquest.ACQUI, a town of Italy, in the Dutchy of Montfer-rat, with a bilhop’s fee, and commodious baths. Itwas taken by the Spaniards in 1745, and retaken,bythe Piedmontefe in 1746; but after this, it was takenagain and difmantled by th... | |
1 | A-B | 36 | 21 | null | Normal | 2,466 | 3,328 | a c r, ( 2ACRTFQLIUM, in botany, a lharp Or prickly leaf,ACRIMONY, that quality in bodies which rendersthem acrid to t-hc tafte.ACRIVIOLA, in botany, a fynonime of a fpecies oftropssolum or Indian crefs. See Trop^eolum.ACRO AM ATTIC, or Acroatic, in general, denotesa thing fubliine, profound, or abftrufe. Ariflotle’sle... | |
1 | A-B | 37 | 22 | 70 | Normal | 2,466 | 3,328 | ACT ( 22games inftituted by Auguftus, in memory of his vic¬tory over Marc Anthony at Adtium, held every fifthyear, and celebrated in honour of Apollo, fince calledAftiur. Hence Adtian years, an sera commencingfrom the battle of Adtium, called the Mr a of Au-• guflus.ACTION, in a general fenfe. See Act.Action, in mechan... | |
1 | A-B | 38 | null | Normal | 2,466 | 3,328 | ADAACULEATUS, in ichthyology, a fynonitne of the ga-flerodeus or flickle-back. See Gasterosteus.ACULEI, the prickles of animals or of plants.ACULEOSA, in botany, a fynonime of the gorteriaciliaris and the roella ciliata. See Gorteria, Ro-ella.ACULER, in the menage, is ufed for the motion of ahorfe, when, in working upo... | ||
1 | A-B | 39 | null | Normal | 2,466 | 3,328 | A D D (y-th day of it, the Jews keep a fait for the death ofMofes; on the 13 th, they have the fall of Efther;and on the 14th, they celebrate the feafl: of Purim,for their deliverance from Hainan's confpiracy,AD ARCE, a kind of concreted falts found on reeds andother vegetables, and applied by the ancients as a re... | ||
1 | A-B | 40 | null | Normal | 2,526 | 3,378 | Plate JIL, | ||
1 | A-B | 41 | null | Normal | 2,466 | 3,328 | .i • ■:. .nil -ilia | ||
1 | A-B | 42 | null | Normal | 2,466 | 3,328 | A D E (2 5 ) ADIwheat, tnillet, frankincenfe, and pepper. Their reli¬gion is the Mahometan.Ad el-fijb, an obfolete name of the falmo albula, be¬longing to the order of abdominales. . See Sal mo.ADEL-ODAGAM, in botany, a fynonime ofthejufli-cia bivalvis. See Justicia. .ADELIA, in botany, a genus of the dieccia monadel-p... | ||
1 | A-B | 43 | null | Normal | 2,431 | 3,328 | ADM ( 2<its rife S. of the lake Glace, among the Alps, runs S.by Trent, then E. by Verona in the territory of Ve¬nice, and falls into the gulph of Venice, N. of themouth of the Po.ADJOURNMENT; the word imports putting offfomething to another day or time..ADIPOSE, a term ufed by anatomifts for any cell,membrane, &... | ||
1 | A-B | 44 | null | Normal | 2,431 | 3,328 | ADOAdmiral is alfo an appellation given to the moft con-fiderable (hip of a fleet of merchant-men, or of theveflels employed in the cod-fi(hery of Newfoundland.This lad has the privilege of chufing what place hepleafcs on the fhore to dry his fi(h ; gives proper or¬ders, and appoints the fifhing places to thofe who com... | ||
1 | A-B | 45 | null | Normal | 2,431 | 3,328 | A D V ( 28 ) A D VADRA, in geography, a fea-port town of Spain, in thekingdom of Granada, 37 miles^, S. E. of Granada,and 12 S. W. of Almeria, 1. 10. W; long. 36. o. lat.ADRACANTH. See Tragacanth.ADRACHNE, in botany, an obfolete name of a fpeciesof arbutus. See Arbutus.ADRAMMELECH, in antiquity, or mythology, adeity wo... | ||
1 | A-B | 46 | null | Normal | 2,431 | 3,328 | A D V ( 29 ) JE G lupon a very extenfive plan, fuggefted by that learnedand eminent lawyer Sir George M'Kenzie of Rofe-haugh, advocate to King Charles II. and King JamesVII. who enriched it with many valuable books. Ithas been daily increafing fince that time, and now con¬tains not only the bell collection of law-... | ||
1 | A-B | 47 | null | Normal | 2,431 | 3,328 | iE O N ( go ) A E Rpiter, given him on account of his having been fuckled Aon, among the Platonifts, was ufed to denote any vir-by a goat.AGLEFINUS, or Haddock, in ichthyology, a fpe ¬cies of the gadus. See Gadus.AGOCEPHALUS, in ornithology, an oblolete nameof a fpecie3 of tringa. See Tringa.AGOCERAS, in botany, an obf... | ||
1 | A-B | 48 | null | Normal | 2,431 | 3,328 | M S TERRA, a fmall town of Portugal, in the province ofEftramadura, fituated upon the river Zatas.AERESCHOT, a town of the Dutch Netherlands, fi¬tuated in Brabant, about fifteen miles eaflwaTd ofMechlin.ERUGINOUS, in ornithology, the trivial name of afpecies of falco. See Falco.Eruginous, an epithet given to fuch thing... |
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