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kp-eb0710-063601-2235 | GRACES, Gratiae, Charites, in the heathen theology, were fabulous deities, three in number, who attended on Venus. Their names were, Aglaia, Thalia, and Euphrosyne; or, according to some authors, Pasithea, Euphrosyne, and Aegiale. They were supposed by some to be the daughters of Jupiter and Eurynome, and by others to ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-063701-2248 | GRAEVIUS, the Latinized form of GRAEFE, John George,- one of the most learned and laborious writers of his time, was born at Naumburg, in Saxony, on the 29th of January 1632. He began his studies in the gymnasium of Pforta, and completed them at the university of Leipsic, under Rivinus and Strauch. Graevius was led to ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-063702-2248 | GRAFTING, or Engrafting, in Gardening, is the taking a shoot from one tree, and inserting it into another, in such a manner that both may unite closely and become one tree. By the ancient writers on husbandry and gardening, this operation is called incision, to distinguish it from inoculation or budding, which they cal... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-063703-2248 | GRAHAM, James, Marquis of Montrose, a man celebrated by one party as a hero comparable to the greatest of antiquity, and branded by another as a renegade and a traitor. His name, his exploits, and his character belong properly to history (see the article Britain) ; but he deserves notice here as one who occupied his in... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-063801-2261 | GRAMINA, Grasses, one of the seven tribes or natural families, into which all vegetables are distributed by Linnaeus in his Philosophia Rotanica. They are defined to be plants which have very simple leaves, a jointed stem, a husky calyx termed gluma, and a single seed. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-063802-2261 | GRAMMAR.
Grammar is the art of speaking or writing any language with correctness and propriety; and the purpose of language is to communicate our thoughts.
Grammar, considered as an art, necessarily supposes the previous existence of language; and as its design is to teach any language to those who are ignorant of it... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-068301-2846 | GRAMMATICAL ABSTRACT, Exhibiting a Systematic View of Words, as they are commonly arranged into distinct Classes, with the Subdivisions under each Class.
All language is composed of words, each of which may be defined, a sound significant of some idea or relation. These words may be arranged into four general division... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-070301-3106 | GRAMMARIAN, one who is skilled in or teaches grammar. Anciently the name grammarian was a title of honour in literature and erudition, being given to persons accounted learned in any art or faculty whatsoever. But it is otherwise now, being frequently used as a term of reproach, to signify a dry plodding person, employ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-070302-3106 | GRAMPIANS, a mountain chain in Scotland, so called from two Celtic terms, grans and bein, signifying “rugged mountains.” It runs from east to west almost the whole breadth of the kingdom. See Scotland. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-070303-3106 | GRANADA, a portion of Andalusia, in Spain, being one of those four districts denominated kingdoms, into which that rich province is divided. It is bounded on the west by Seville, on the north by Jaen and Murcia, on the east by Murcia, and on the south by the Mediterranean Sea. Its extent is 805 square leagues, and the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-070501-3132 | GRANADIER, or Grenadier, originally a soldier armed with a sword, a firelock, a bayonet, and a pouch full of hand grenades; whence the name. Grenadiers now differ from the rest of the battalion only in their superior size and stature, and in certain distinctive peculiarities of uniform. They are always composed of the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-070502-3132 | GRANADO, or Grenade (so called from being filled with grains of powder, as a pomegranate is with kernels), is, in war, a hollow ball or shell of iron or other metal, of about [7:10:706]two inches and a half diameter, which being filled with fine powder, is set on fire by means of a small fuse made of well-seasoned beec... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-070601-3145 | GRANARD, a borough, market, fair, and post town, in the county of Longford, and province of Leinster, situated fifty-two miles from Dublin, and about sixteen north-east of Longford. Here is a remarkable hill or mount, called the Moat of Granard, supposed to be artificial, and the site of a Danish castle or fort, which ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-070602-3145 | GRANARY, a building to lay up or store corn in, especially that which is designed to be kept for a considerable time.
Sir Henry Wotton recommends that a granary should be made to look towards the north, because that quarter is the coolest and most temperate. Mr Worlidge observes, that the best granaries are built of b... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-070701-3158 | GRANATE, or Granite, a species of mineral belonging to the siliceous genus. See Mineralogy. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-070702-3158 | GRAND, a term rather French than English, though used on many occasions in our language. It has the same import with great, being formed from the Latin grandis. In this sense we say, the grand-master of an order, as the grand-master of Malta and of the free-masons; the grand-signior and the grand-visier; grandfather, g... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-070703-3158 | GRANDEE is a term applied to a lord of the first rank or highest quality. In Spain the name grandees is used absolutely to denote the great lords of the court, to whom the king has granted permission to remain covered in his presence. There are some grandees for life only, who are made by the king’s saying simply, “Be ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-070704-3158 | GRANDEUR and Sublimity. These terms have a double import, commonly signifying the quality or circumstance in objects by which the emotions of grandeur and sublimity are produced, and sometimes also the emotions themselves.
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kp-eb0710-071001-3197 | GRANGE, an ancient term for a barn or place in which to lay up and thrash corn. The word is formed from the Latin granea or granum, grain or corn. Hence also granger or grangier, a grange-keeper or farmer. Grange is also used, in a more extensive sense, to signify a whole farm, with all the appendages of stables for ho... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-071002-3197 | GRANGER, James, a well-known biographer, who has himself been left without any memorial. The time and place of his birth, and the condition of his parents, are equally unknown. He studied, however, at Christ Church, Oxford, which he probabty left without taking a degree; and having entered into holy orders, was present... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-071101-3210 | GRANI, in our ancient writers, moustaches or whiskers of a beard. The word seems to have been formed from the ancient British or Irish greann, a beard. It is stated as a reason why the cup is refused to the laity, Quia barbati, et prolixos habent granos, dum poculum inter epulas sumunt, prius liquore pilos injiciunt, q... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-071102-3210 | GRANICUS, a small river near the Hellespont, in Asia Minor, remarkable for the first victory gained by Alexander the Great over the armies of Darius. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-071103-3210 | GRANITE, one of the primitive rocks. See Mineralogy. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-071104-3210 | GRANIT l’LLO, or Granitel, a name given by some mineralogists to a particular species or variety of granite, which sometimes contains hornblende. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-071105-3210 | GRANIVOROUS, an appellation given to animals which feed on corn or seeds, and which are principally of the bird kind. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-071106-3210 | GRANT, in Law, a conveyance in writing of such things as cannot pass or be conveyed by word only.
Grant, Francis, an eminent Scottish lawyer and judge, known in the latter capacity under the title of Lord Cullen, was descended from a younger branch of the family of the Grants of Grant, and was born about the year 1660... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-071107-3210 | GRANTHAM, a borough-town of the county of Lincoln, in the liberties of Grantham Soke, and parts of Kesteven. It is on the great north road, distant from London 112 miles, on the river Witham, in a healthy and fertile district. It is a corporate town, with a mayor and aiderman, and returns two members to parliament. The... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-071108-3210 | GRANVILLE, George, Lord Lansdowne, was descended from a very ancient family, derived from Rollo the first duke of Normandy. At the age of eleven he was sent to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he remained five years; but at thirteen he was admitted to the degree of master of arts, having, before he was twelve, spoken ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-071109-3210 | GRANULATED, something which has undergone granulation, or has been reduced to grains. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-071110-3210 | GRANULATION, ip Chemistry, an operation by which metallic substances are reduced into small grains, for the purpose of facilitating their combination with other substances. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-071111-3210 | GRAPE, the fruit of the vine. See Vine and Wine. G rape- Shot, in artillery, is a combination of small shot, put into a thick canvass bag, and corded strongly together, so as to form a kind of cylinder, the diameter of which is equal to that of the ball adapted to the cannon. The number of shot in a bag varies accordin... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-071201-3223 | GRAPHOMETER, a mathematical instrument,otherwise called a semicircle, the use of which is to observe any angle, the vertex of which is at the centre of the instrument in any plane (though it is most commonly horizontal, or nearly so), and to find how many degrees it contains. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-071202-3223 | GRAPNEL, or Grafling, a sort of small anchor, fitted with four or five flukes or claws, and commonly used to ride a boat or other small vessel.
Fire-GRΛPPLrNθ, an instrument nearly resembling the former, but differing in the construction of its flukes, which are furnished with strong barbs at their points. These machi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-071203-3223 | GRASS, in Botany, a plant having simple leaves, a stem generally jointed and tubular, a husky calyx called gluma, and the seed single. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-071204-3223 | GRASSE, La, an arrondissement of the department of the Var, in France, extending over 506 square miles. It is divided into seven cantons, and sixty-three communes, and contains 56,818 inhabitants. The capita) is a city of the same name, situated on the declivity of a hill, in a district which abounds in citrons, orange... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 43 39' 19" N 6 50' 40" E | GRASSE |
kp-eb0710-071205-3223 | GRATES for Fires are composed of ribs of iron placed at small distances from one another, so that the air may have sufficient access to the fuel, and the accumulation of the ashes, which would choke the fire, may be prevented. Grates seem peculiarly adapted to the use of pitcoal, which requires a greater quantity of ai... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-071206-3223 | GRATIAN, the son of Valentinian the First by his first wife, was declared Augustus by his father at the city of Amiens in 365, and succeeded him in 367. This prince was equally extolled for his wit, eloquence, modesty, chastity, and zeal against heretics. He associated Theodosius with him in the empire, and advanced th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-071207-3223 | GRATINGS, in a ship, are small edges of sawed plank, framed one into another like a lattice or prison grate, placed on the upper deck, between the main-mast and fore-mast, and serving as a defence in a close f⅛ht, as well as contributing to the convenience of the ship’s company. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-071208-3223 | GRATITUDE, a virtue disposing the mind to an inward sense and outward acknowledgment of benefits received. See Moral Philosophy. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-071209-3223 | GRATIUS, Faliscus, a Roman poet, the contemporary of Ovid, and from his name probably a slave or freedman, but respecting whose life we have no particulars. A poem of his on hunting has been preserved, entitled Cynegeti-eon, in 540 hexameters; but its conclusion has been lost. The language is pure, and worthy of the ag... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-071210-3223 | GRATTAN, Henry, an illustrious Irish orator and statesman, was born at Dublin in the year 1750. His father followed the profession of barrister, and, though not remarkable for shining qualities, was industrious and prudent. Being a Protestant, the corporation of Dublin extended to him its patronage, in consequence of w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-071401-3249 | GRATZ, a circle of the Austrian province of Steyermark. It extends over 2134 square miles, and contains six cities, thirty market-towns, 976 villages, with 56,362 houses, and 286,442 inhabitants. The capital, of the same name, is also the capital of the province. It stands on the river Mur, in a valley of great fertili... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-071402-3249 | GRAUDENZ, a city of the province of West Prussia, and government of Dantzic. It is strongly fortified, and stands on the Vistula, where there is a bridge of boats. It contains 575 houses, and, including the military in the citadel, 7572 inhabitants. It has establishments of various kinds of a charitable nature and for ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-071403-3249 | GRAUNT, John, the author of Observations on the Bills of Mortality, and the founder of Political Arithmetic, was born at London on the 24th of April 1620, bred up in all the strictness of puritan principles, and, being designed for trade, received no more education than was barely necessary for that purpose. At an earl... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-071501-3262 | GRAVE, in Grammar, a species of accent opposed to acute. The grave accent is expressed thus('); and shows that the voice is to be depressed, and the syllable over which it is placed to be pronounced in a low deep tone.
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kp-eb0710-071502-3262 | GRAVER, in the art of engraving, α tool by which all the lines, scratches, and shades are cut in copper, &c. See Engraving. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-071503-3262 | GRAVESANDE, William Jacob, was descended of an ancient and honourable family, and born at Delft, in Holland, on the 27th of September 1688. The name of his family was properly Storm van s’Gravesande. He studied the civil law at Leyden; but the mathematics, for which he had evinced an early inclination, were his favouri... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-071504-3262 | GRAVESEND, a market-town of the county of Kent, in the hundred of Toltingtrough, of the lathe of Ayleslòrd, twenty-three miles from London. It is situated on the south bank of the river Thames, from which the principal street ascends up a gentle hill. It depends chiefly on the ships which resort to the port of London, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-071505-3262 | GRAVINA, John Vincent, one of the most distinguished men of letters that the kingdom of Naples ever produced, was born at Rogiano, a small town near Cosenza, in Calabria-Ulteriore, on the 20th of January 1664. His parents, who, [7:10:716]by their station and their fortune, held the first rank in the place, neglected nö... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-071701-3288 | GRAVITATION, in Natural Philosophy, signifies either the force by which bodies are pressed towards the surface of the earth, or the manifest effect of that force; in which last sense the word has the same signification with weight or heaviness. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-071702-3288 | GRAVITY, Specific, denotes the weight belonging to an equal bulk of every different substance. Thus the exact weight of a cubic inch of gold, compared with a cubic inch of water, tin, lead, or any other substance, is called its specific gravity. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-071703-3288 | GRAY, or Grey, a mixed colour partaking of the two extremes of black and white. See Dyeing. Gray, Lady Jane. See Grey. Gray, Thomas, an eminent English poet, was the youngest and only surviving son of Philip Gray, a citizen and money-scrivener of London, and was born in Cornhill, on the 20th of December 1716. He was ed... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-071901-3314 | GRAZALEMA, a city of Spain, in the province of Granada. It is a romantic place, of Moorish building, partly on the side and partly on the summit of a lofty hill in the Sierra de Ronda, and contains 5000 inhabitants, who are occupied in making coarse woollens. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-071902-3314 | GREAT, a term of comparison, denoting that one thing has more extension than some other to which it is referred. Thus we say, a great space, a great distance, a great figure, a great body, and the like.
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kp-eb0710-071903-3314 | GREAVES, John, an eminent mathematician and antiquary, was the eldest son of John Greaves, rector of Cole-more, near Alresford in Hampshire, and born in 1602. He was educated at Baliol College, Oxford, from which he removed to Merton. He was afterwards, on the ground of merit, chosen professor of geometry in Gresham Co... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-072001-3327 | GREECE.
Greece and its inhabitants, after a long period of oblivion, have at length become objects of profound and general interest to the most enlightened nations of Europe. It was singular, indeed, that whilst classical scholars were immersed in the study of its poets, orators, and historians, the country that gave ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-075501-3782 | GREEN, one of the original prismatic colours exhibited by the refraction of the rays of light.
• Green- Cloth, a board or court of justice held in the counting-house of the king’s household, composed of the lord steward and officers under him, who sit daily. To this court is committed the charge and superintendence of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-075502-3782 | GREENLAND, or Groenland, an immense island lying to the north-east of North America, and for the most part comprehended within the arctic circle. Formerly it was supposed to form part of the continent of America, but the discoveries of recent navigators have proved its entire separation from that country by the Arctic ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-076201-3873 | GREENOCK, a sea-port town of Scotland, in the shire of Renfrew. It is beautifully situated on the south bank of the Frith of Clyde, about twenty-two miles below Glasgow, in latitude 55° 57' 2* N. and longitude 4° 45' 30" W. In front of the town there is a fine and extensive bay, formerly known by the name of the Bay of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-076401-3899 | GREENWICH, a market town of the county of Kent, in the hundred of Blackheath, within the lathe of Sutton, and five miles from London. It is situated on the south bank of the Thames, and extends along the shore of it. Though extensive, it is a single parish, but has two churches, and several places of worship for the va... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-076501-3912 | GREGARIOUS, amongst zoologists, a term applied to such animals as do not live solitary, but associate in herds. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-076502-3912 | GREGORIAN Calendar, that which shows the new and full moon, with the time of Easter, and the moveable feasts depending thereon, by means of epacts, disposed through the several months of the Gregorian year. See Chronology. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-076503-3912 | GREGORY, surnamed the Great, born at Rome, was descended of an illustrious patrician family, and the son of the senator Gordian. He discovered such abilities in the exercise of the senatorial employments, that Justin the younger appointed him prefect of Rome, and Pelasgius II. sent him as nuncio to Constantinople, to d... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-077101-3990 | GREIFFENHAGEN, a circle of the Prussian province of Pomerania, and.government of Stettin. It extends over 241 square miles, and comprehends three towns and thirty-four villages, with 19,840 inhabitants. The capital is a city of that name, situated on a branch of the river Oder. It contains 4150 inhabitants, depending c... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-077102-3990 | GREIFSWALDE, a city of Prussia, capital of a circle of the same name, in the province of Pomerania. It is situated on an arm of the sea, is fortified, and has pleasant public walks. It is the seat of a university, well endowed, but not much frequented by students. It contains 808 houses, and 7970 inhabitants, who are e... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-077103-3990 | GREISBACH, a bailiwick of the circle of the Lower Danube, in the kingdom of Bavaria, extending over 308 square miles. It contains four market-towns, 146 villages, and 660 hamlets, with 27,870 inhabitants. It is one of the best cultivated districts in the kingdom. The chief town, of the same name, contains only 840 inha... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-077104-3990 | GREIZ, a city, the capital of the principality of Reuss, of the elder branch. It is surrounded with walls, and contains 566 houses, with 6195 inhabitants. The palace of the prince is on a hill adjoining the city, with a fine ornamental garden and orangery. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-077105-3990 | GRENADA, an island in the West Indies, situated between the parallels of 12. 20. and 11. 58. N. lat., and 61. 20. and 61. 35. W. long. It was discovered in the year 1498, by Christopher Columbus, who found it possessed by a numerous and warlike people, from whom, however, the Spaniards were attracted by the nobler priz... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-077201-4003 | GRENAILLE, a name given by the French writers to a preparation of copper, which the Chinese use as a red colour in some of their finest china, particularly for that colour which is called oil red or red in oil. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-077202-4003 | GRENOBLE, an arrondissement of the department of the Isère, in France, extending over 1320 square miles. It is divided into twenty cantons, and 217 communes, and contains 177,690 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name, situated near the Rachet Mountains, on a beautiful plain, ’ which is watered by the ri... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-077203-4003 | GRENVILLE, the Right Honourable William Wyndham, Lord, one of the most distinguished statesmen of his time, was born on the 25th of October 1759. He was the third son of the Right Honourable George Grenville, prime minister of England in 1763, 1764, and 1765, and of Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Wyndham, baronet, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-077501-4042 | GRESHAM, Sir Thomas, an opulent merchant of London, descended from an ancient and honourable family of Norfolk, was born in 1519. He was, as his father had been before him, appointed king’s agent at Antwerp, [7:10:776]and in 1551 he removed to that city with his family. This employment was suspended on the accession of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-077601-4055 | GREVILLE, Fulke, Lord Brooke, a poet and miscellaneous writer, was born in the year 1554, and descended from the noble families of Beauchamps of Powick and Willoughby de Brooke. In company with his cousin Sir Philip Sidney, he began his education at a school in Shrewsbury; whence he went to Oxford, where he remained fo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-077602-4055 | GREVIUS. See Gbaevius. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-077603-4055 | GREW, Neiiemiah, the first vegetable anatomist and physiologist of this country, was born at Coventry about the year 1628. He was educated as a Presbyterian; and on the change of the national form of religion, at the restoration of Charles Il., he was sent to study at some foreign university, where he took his degree o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-077604-4055 | GREY, Lady Jane, an illustrious and unfortunate lady, descended of the blood-royal of England by both parents, was the eldest daughter of Henry Grey marquis of Dorset, and Frances, daughter of Charles Brandon Lord Suffolk, by Mary, dowager of Louis XII. king of France, and youngest daughter of Henry VII. king of Englan... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-077701-4068 | GRIERSON, Constantia, one of the most learned women on record, though she died in 1733, at the early age of twenty-seven, was the daughter of poor parents resident in the county of Kelkenny, in Ireland. She was an excellent Greek and Latin scholar, and understood history, divinity, philosophy, and mathematics. She prov... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-077702-4068 | GRIFFON, or Grjfpin (Gryphus, l’ftrψ), in the natural history of the ancients, the name of an imaginary bird of prey, of the eagle species, represented with four legs, wings, and a beak; the upper part resembling an eagle, and the lower a lion. This animal, which was supposed to watch over gold mines and hidden treasur... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-077703-4068 | GRIMALDI, Francisco, an eminent painter, generally known by the appellation of Bolognese, was born at Bologna in 1606, where he became a disciple of Annibal Caracci, and proved an honour to that illustrious master. From the school of Annibal he went to ∞mplete his studies at Rome, and improved himself daily by copying ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-077704-4068 | GRIMMA, a bailiwick in the circle of Leipsic, in the kingdom of Saxony, containing five cities, ninety-three villages, and 18,460 inhabitants. The capital, of the same name, is a city situated on the Mulda, containing five churches, 560 houses, and 3500 inhabitants. Several manufactures are carried on, for cloth, flann... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-077705-4068 | GRIMSBY, Great, a borough-town of the county of Lincoln, of the hundred of Bradley, in the division of Lindsay, 171 miles from London, and thirty-six from Lincoln. It stands at the mouth of the river Humber, opposite to Hull. The harbour having been injured, the trade declined; but some recent improvements have produce... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-077706-4068 | GRINDELWALD, a town situated in one of the most picturesque valleys of the canton of Berne, in Switzerland. This valley is, however, 3100 feet above the level of the sea, but is surrounded by the lofty Wetterhorn, Schrech-horn, and Grindelwald Mountains. It contains 5000 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-077707-4068 | GRINDING, or Trituration, the act of breaking or comminuting a solid body, and reducing it into powder.
Grinding is also used to indicate the rubbing or wearing off the irregular parts of the surface of a body, and reducing it to the destined figure, whatever that may be.
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kp-eb0710-077801-4081 | GRINSTEAD, East, a borough-town and extensive parish of the county of Sussex, in the hundred of Rushmonden and rape of Pevensey, twenty-nine miles from London. It is situated on an eminence, and its tower is a prominent object to a large extent of country. It was a burgage tenure borough, and returned two members to pa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-077802-4081 | GRIPES, in Medicine, a colic or painful disorder of the lower belly, occasioned by irritating matters, or by wind in the intestines. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-077803-4081 | GRISGRIS, a superstition very prevalent amongst the negroes in the interior parts of Africa. The grisgris, according to Le Maire, are certain Arabic characters mixed with magical figures drawn by the marabouts or priests upon paper. Labat affirms that they are nothing else than scraps of the Koran in Arabic; but this i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-077804-4081 | GRISONS, one of the cantons of Switzerland, called by the inhabitants Graubundten. It has been composed out of three confederacies, called the League of God’s House, the League of the Ten Bailiwicks, and the Grey League. These, with some other small portions, had long continued independent states, until 1798, when, aft... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-077901-4094 | GRIST, in country affairs, denotes corn ground, or ready for grinding. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-077902-4094 | GRIT, or Gritstone, a kind of stone which is used for building, and for millstones or grindstones, and sometimes for filtrating water. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-077903-4094 | GROAT, an English money of account, equal to fourpence. Other nations, as the Dutch, Poles, Saxons, Bohemians, and French, have likewise their groats, groots, grochen, gros, and the like. In the Saxon times, no silver coin bigger than a penny was struck in England, nor after the Conquest, till the reign of Edward III.,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-077904-4094 | GROCERS were anciently such persons as engrossed all merchandise that was vendible; but now they are incorporated, form one of the companies of the city of London, and deal in sugar, foreign fruits, spices, and other articles. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-077905-4094 | GRODNO, one of the provinces of West Russia, formerly a part of Lithuania. It is bounded on the north by Wilna, on the east by Minsk, on the south by Volhynia, on the south-west by Poland, and on the west by Bialystock. It extends over 11,792 square miles, and is divided into eight circles, containing 108 towns and 936... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-077906-4094 | GROENLAND, or Greenland. See Greenland. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-077907-4094 | GROGRAM, a kind of stuff made of silk and mohair. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-077908-4094 | GROIN, that part of the abdomen next the thigh.
Groin, amongst builders, is the angular curve formed by the intersection of two semicylinders or arches, and is either regular or irregular. A regular groin is when the intersecting arches, whether semicircular or semielliptical, are of the same diameters and heights. An... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-077909-4094 | GROLL, or Groenloo, a town of the Netherlands, in the circle of Zutphen, and province of Guelderland. It stands on the river Slink, and is strongly fortified as a frontier town on the side of Westphalia. It contains 2100 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-077910-4094 | GRONENBACH, a bailiwick of the circle of the Upper Danube, in the kingdom of Bavaria, extending over 125 square miles. It contains three market-towns, fifty-two villages, and 155 detached agricultural establishments, and 11,492 inhabitants. It is a poor district, mostly covered with woods. The capital, of the same name... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-077911-4094 | GRONINGEN, one of the provinces of the Netherlands. It is bounded on the north by the German Ocean, on the east by the mouth of the Ems, the Dollart, arid the kingdom of Hanover, on the south by the province of Drenthe, and on the west by that of Friesland. Il extends over 806 square miles, and contains 159,321 inhabit... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-077912-4094 | GRONOVIUS, the Latinized form of Gronov, John Frederick, a learned scholar and critic, was born at Hamburg on the 10th of September 1611. His father, who was councillor to the Duke of Holstein, having been appointed syndic or town-clerk of Bremen, carried his son to that city, where he went through his early studies wi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0710-078001-4107 | GROOM, a name particularly applied to several superior officers belonging to the king’s household, as groom of the chamber, groom of the stole.
Groom is more particularly used for a servant appointed to attend on horses in the stable. The word is formed from the Flemish gram, a boy. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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