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GROOTE EYLANDT, a large island on the north coast of New Holland, and on the western shore of the Gulf of Carpentaria. It was so called by the Dutch navigators who first visited this gulf, and is about sixty miles from north to south. It is generally barren and unproductive on the coast; but towards the interior is cov...
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GROOTE EYLANDT
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GROOVE, amongst miners, is the shaft or pit sunk into the earth, sometimes in the vein, and sometimes not. Groove, amongst joiners, the channel made by their plough in the edge of a moulding, style, or rail, to put their panels in, in wainscotting.
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GROOVE
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GROSE, Francis, born about the year 1731, was the son of Francis Grose, a jeweller of Richmond, by whom the coronation crown of George H. was filled up. Young Grose obtained an independent fortune by the death of his father, which happened in the year 1769. He was then paymaster and adjutant in the Surrey militia, but ...
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GROSE
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GROSS, amongst us, means twelve dozen . Gross H eight, is the weight 0 f merchandise and goods l’ i Ä . a h V n r ° 8s, a8 ∙ also ° , ' the ba S- cask > chest, &c. in which they are contamed; and out of this gross weight allowance is to be made for tare and tret. Gross, or Grossus, in our ancient law writers, denotes...
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GROSS
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GROSSASPERN, a town of Austria, in the province of the Lower Ens. It is situated on an arm of the Danube, and remarkable for the battle fought there on the 22d and 23d July 1809, which led to the capture of Vienna by the French. It contains DO houses, and 710 inhabitants.
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GROSSASPERN
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GROSSCHANAU, a town of the circle of Lausatia, in the kingdom of Saxony. It is situated on the Lousebach, and is one of the chief seats of the linen manufacture, especially for damask tablecloths and napkins. It is 1000 feet above the level of the sea. The population is 4600.
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GROSSCHANAU
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GROSSENHAIN, a bailiwick of the circle of Meisen, in the kingdom of Saxony. It contains two cities, two market-towns, and 229 villages, with 24,729 inhabitants. It is a fruitful district, but much of it is covered with forests. The capital, of the same name, is a city standing on the river Roder, which runs to the Elbe...
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GROSSENHAIN
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GROSSWARDEIN, a city of Hungary, in the circle of the Hither Theiss. It is strongly fortified, and is the seat of a bishop, and of the several civil and military boards of the circle. There is a Catholic ecclesiastical seminary, with ten professors, and several religious houses for both males and females. It contains 1...
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GROSSWARDEIN
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GROTESQUE, in sculpture and painting, something whimsical, extravagant, and monstrous, consisting either of things which are merely imaginary, and have no existence in nature, or of things so distorted as to excite surprise and ridicule. The name arises from the circumstance that figures of this kind were anciently muc...
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GROTESQUE
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GROTIUS, Hugo, one of the most illustrious characters of modern times, was born at Delft on the 10th of April 1583. His great-grandfather was Concille Cornets, a gentleman of Franche-Comté, who settled in Holland, and married Ermengard the only daughter of Diederik de Groot, a burgomaster of Delft. Her father stipulate...
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GROTIUS
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GROTTO ^ or Grotta, a large deep cavern or den in a mountain or rock. The word is Italian, grotto, formed, according to Menage, from the Latin crypta. Ducange observes, that grotta was used in the same sense in the corrupt Latin. The ancient anchorites retired into dens and grottoes, to apply themselves the more attent...
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GROTTO
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GROUND, in painting, the surface upon which the figures and other objects are represented. The ground is properly understood of such parts of the piece as have nothing painted on them, but retain the original colour upon which the other colours are applied to form the representations. A building is said to serve as a...
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GROUND
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GROUP, in painting and sculpture, is an assemblage of two or more figures of men, beasts, fruits, or the like, which have some apparent relation to each other. The word is formed of the Italian groppo, a knot. Groups, The, several groups of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, seen by Captain Cook in 1769, and extendin...
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GROUP
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GROUSE, or Growse, Moor-fowl, or Mοοr-game. See Ornithology.
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GROUSE
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GROUTHEAD, or Greathed, Robert, a learned bishop of Lincoln, was born at - Stow in Lincolnshire, or, according to others, at Stradbrook in Suffolk, towards the close of the twelfth century. His parents were so poor, that when a boy he was obliged to perform the meanest offices, and even to beg his bread, until the mayo...
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GROUTHEAD
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GROVE, in Gardening, a small wood impervious to the rays of the sun. Groves have in all ages been held in great veneration. The proseuchoe, and high places of the Jews, whither they resorted for the purposes of devotion, were probably situated in groves (see Joshua, xxiv. 26). The proseuchoe in Alexandria, mentioned by...
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GROVE
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GROWTH, the gradual increase of bulk and stature which takes place in animals or vegetables during a certain period. The increase of bulk in such bodies as have no life is called expansion, swelling, &c. The growth of animals, nay even of the human species, is subject to great variations. A remarkable instance of this...
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GROWTH
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GRUB, the English name of the hexapod worms, produced from the eggs of beetles, and which are at length transformed into winged insects of the same species with their parents.
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GRUB
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GRUBENHAGEN, a province called a principality of the kingdom of Hanover. It consists of three portions, the most westerly of which is surrounded by Brunswick and the province of Göttingen; the centre by the province of Hildesheim, by Brunswick, and the Prussian territory; and the eastern portion by Blankenburg and Brun...
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GRUBENHAGEN
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GRUNBERG, a city of Prussian Silesia, the capital of a circle of the same name. It is a fortified place, containing 1145 houses, and 9144 inhabitants. It is also a great manufacturing place for spinning cotton and linen, and for woollen cloths. In the neighbourhood are vineyards, which have been rapidly extending, and ...
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GRUNBERG
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GRUPPO, or Turned Shake, a musical grace, consisting in the alternate prolation of two tones in juxtaposition to each other, with a close on the note immediately beneath the lower of them.
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GRUPPO
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GRUS, in Antiquity, a dance performed yearly by the young Athenians around the temple of Apollo, on the day of the Delia. The motions and figures of this dance were intricate and various, some of them having been intended to express the windings of the labyrinth in which the Minotaur was killed by Theseus. Grus, in As...
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GRUS
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GRUTER, or Gruytere, Jan, in Latin Janus Gτu-terus, a celebrated philologist and antiquary, was born at Antwerp on the 3d of December 1560. His father was burgomaster of that city, but having been banished on account of religion, he retired into England with his wife, who was a native of that country. This lady, whose ...
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GRUTER
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GRY, a measure containing one tenth of a line. A line is one tenth of a digit, and a digit one tenth of afoot, and a philosophical foot one third of a pendulum whose diadromes or vibrations, in the latitude of forty-five degrees, are each equal to one second of time, or one sixtieth of a minute.
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GRY
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GUADALAXARA, a city of New Castille, in the kingdom of Spain, in latitude 40. 33. It is the capital of a department called Alcarria, and is situated near the head of the river Tajuna, which empties itself into the Tagus. It gives name to a province which is 163 leagues in extent, and contains a population of 157,338 so...
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GUADALAXARA
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GUADALCANAL, a town of Spain, in the province of Estremadura. It is the principal mining port of the kingdom. The silver mines have been worked by private companies, most of whom were foreigners. Μ. Vauquelin, a French chemist, discovered, in analysing some ore, that it contained one tenth of its weight in platina, a m...
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GUADALCANAL
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GUADALOUPE, an island in the West Indies, belonging to France, is situated in longitude 62. west, and latitude 16. 20. north. It consists properly of two islands, separated from each other by a narrow channel called Là Riviere Salée, which is navigable by vessels of fifty tons burden. The eastern island or division is ...
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GUADALOUPE
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GUADALQUIVIR, a Spanish river which rises in the Sierra Cazoria, runs for 255 miles through Jaen and Seville, and falls into the ocean near St Lucar. It is navigable for fifty-five miles above Seville. Its tributary streams are the Guadiana el Minor, Almudicl, Guadalbon, Guadiato, and Xenil.
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GUADALQUIVIR
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GUADALUPE, a low chain of mountains in Spain, which nowhere rise higher than 2307 feet. It begins at Tembleque in Toledo, under the name of the Sierra de Marchal, and ends in the Portuguese province of Estremadura, with the mountains of Espichel.
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GUADALUPE
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GUADARRAMA, a chain of Spanish mountains, which begins near Xalon and Tajuña, passes through Castille and Leon, and extends to the sea in the Portuguese province of Beira. One of its highest points is the Penaglada, which is 8502 feet above the level of the sea. Guadarrama, a Spanish river, which rises on a hill of th...
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GUADARRAMA
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GUADIANA, a river of Spain, which rises out of the earth in Mancha, in the Lagunen of Ruidera, runs twenty-five miles and a quarter north-west, and, after disappearing under the earth, rises to light again in Estremadura, runs through a part of Portugal, and falls into the ocean on the confines of Algarve, near Rebonde...
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GUADIANA
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GUADIN, a small city in the kingdom of Granada, in Andalusia, in Spain. It is situated on a river of the same name, which falls into the Guadalquivir. The surrounding country is productive of fruits, oil, and wine, and near it are the medicinal baths of Graena, much resorted to by invalids. There are manufactories here...
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GUADIN
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GUALIOR, a strong and very celebrated fortress of Hindustan, in the province of Agra, in a very elevated situation on a hill, one and a half mile in length, but in few places exceeding 300 yards in breadth. At the north end the sides are so steep as to be nearly perpendicular, and its height is 342 feet. It has several...
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GUALIOR
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GUAM, or Guahon, one of the Ladrone Islands, in the Eastern Seas. It is a large island, about 120 miles in circuit, high and shelving on each side, and fenced with steep rocks, against which the surf perpetually beats. [7:11:13]There is a harbour on the west side, in which there are several small bays. The climate is m...
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GUAM
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GUAMANGA, a town of Peru, in South America. It was founded by Pizarro, on the site of an Indian village of the same name, for the convenience of trade between Cuzco and Lima. It contains a splendid cathedral, two parochial churches, seven monasteries, three nunneries, and about 26,000 inhabitants. Long. 73. 57. W. Lat....
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12 56' S 73 57' W
GUAMANGA
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GUANAXUATO, a state, formerly an intendancy, of Mexico is bounded on the north by San Luis Potosi, on the east by Mexico on the south by Mechoacan, and on the north-west by Guadalaxara and Zacatecas. It lies wholly on the ridge of the Cordillera, and, according to Humboldt, its length from the Lake of Chapala to the no...
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GUANAXUATO
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GUANCA VELICA, a town of Peru, and capital of a jurisdiction of the same name. The district is bleak and cold, but famous for its mines of mercury. The town stands in a breach of the Andes, 12,308 feet above the ocean level. It is rich, but it has declined from its former opulence, and the population is now reduced to ...
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12 45' S 74 46' W
GUANCA VELICA
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GUARANTEE, or Warrantee, in Law, a term relative to warrant or warranter, and properly signifying him whom the warranter undertakes to indemnify or secure from damage. Guarantee is more frequently used for a warranter, or a person who undertakes and obliges himself to see a second person perform what he has stipulated...
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GUARANTEE
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GUARANTY, in matters of polity, the engagement of mediatorial or neutral states, by which they plight their faith that certain treaties shall be inviolably observed, or that they will make war against the aggressor.
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GUARANTY
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GUARD, in a general sense, signifies the defence or preservation of any thing; the act of observing what passes, in order to prevent surprise; or the care, precaution, and attention employed to prevent any thing from happening contrary to our intentions or inclinations. Guard, in fencing, implies a proper posture to d...
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GUARD
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GUARDA, a city of Portugal, in the province of Beira. It is situated near the head of the river Mondego, on one branch of the Sierra de Estrella. It is a very ancient place, and the old walls with turrets, and a castle, are still [7:11:15]in existence, though the city has retrograded towards decay. It has some manufact...
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GUARDA
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GUARDIA, a town of Spain, not far from Cedron, in the province of Toledo, with 3344 inhabitants. Guardia-Alferez, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of Naples, and in the Contado di Molise, with a bishop’s see. Long. 14. 56. E. Lat 4L 39. N.
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GUARDIA
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GUARDIAN, in Laus, a person who has the charge of anything; but it more commonly signifies one who has the custody and education of such persons as have not sufficient discretion to take care of themselves and their own affairs, as children and idiots. Guardian, or Warden, of the Cinque Ports, is an officer who has th...
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GUARDIAN
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GUARINI, Giovanni Battista, a celebrated Italian poet, was born at Ferrara, on the lθth of December 1537. He studied at the university of Padua, under the direction of his father, Alexander, to whom he owed the greater part of his acquisitions in knowledge, and more particularly his taste for poetry. Guarini succeeded ...
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GUARINI
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GUARNIX, a town of Spain, in the province of Old Castille. It is situated on the river Santander, and on its banks are founderies both for brass and iron cannon. In a dock-yard there are conveniences for repairing large ships; and some of the largest line-of-battle ships in the royal navy were built here.
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GUARNIX
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GUASTALLA, a duehyin Italy, between Modena and [7:11:16] •the Austrian province of Mantua. It is thirty-three square miles in extent, containing the city of the same name, and four small places, with 7200 inhabitants, who cultivate with great care and success wheat, barley, rice, maize, olives, and silk, and breed many...
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GUASTALLA
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GUATIMALA, or Guatemala, one of the new states into which the western world is divided. From the circumstance of its position, it has assumed the name of Central America. The constitution is modelled upon that of North America. This republic comprehends that portion of territory which stretches from the southern extrem...
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GUATIMALA
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GUAYAQUIL, an important department of that portion of the South American continent which until recently was designated Colombia; but since the separation of that republic into three different states, Guayaquil, it is presumed, belongs now to that part of Colombia which has resumed the name of New Grenada. It extends al...
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GUAYAQUIL
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GUAYRA, a district of the province of La Plata, in South America, having Brazil on the east, and Paraguay on the west.
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GUAYRA
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GUBBIO, or Eugubio, a town of the delegation of Urbino, in the papal dominions, in Italy, at the foot of the Apennines, containing 4000 inhabitants, who conduct manufactories of woollen and silk, and of wax bleaching.
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GUBBIO
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GUBEN, a city of Prussia, the capital of the circle of the same name, in the province of Frankfort. It stands on the river Neisse, which is navigable to the Oder, is surrounded with walls, and contains 850 houses, and 7960 inhabitants, who carry on various manufactures in woollen [7:11:21] and linen goods, and other co...
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GUBEN
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GUBI, a town of Hindustan, in the rajah of Mysore’s territories. It is a mean looking place, and dirty; but it carries on a considerable trade, and many of the inhabitants are prosperous. Here is held one of the greatest weekly fairs in the country. It is said to have been founded 400 years ago, by the Polygars, who we...
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GUBI
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GUDARAH, a district of Hindustan, in the Gujerat province, situated about the 23d degree of north latitude. It is mountainous and woody. The principal towns are Gundarah and Lunawara. The chief river is the Mahy.
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GUDARAH
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GUDGEON, a species of cyprinus. See Ichthyology.
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GUDGEON
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GUEBRES, or Gabres. See Gabres.
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GUEBRES
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GUELPHS, or Guelfs, a celebrated faction in Italy, antagonists of the Ghibelins. See Ghibelins. The Guelphs and Ghibelins filled Italy with blood and carnage for many years. The Guelphs stood for the pope, against the emperor; the Ghibelins for the emperor against the pope. The rise of the Guelphs is referred by some ...
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GUELPHS
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GUERANDE, a city of France, in the department of the Lower Seine, and, next to Nantes, the largest of the department. It is situated on the sea-shore, on the declivity of a hill covered with vineyards, is surrounded with fortifications, and contains 7250 inhabitants, who carry on manufactures of linen and of cotton. Ne...
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GUERANDE
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GUERCINO. See Barbieri.
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GUERCINO
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GUERICKE, Otto, or Oruo, a German philosopher of considerable eminence, was born in 1602, and died at Hamburg in 1686. In conjunction with Torricelli, Pascal, and Boyle, he contributed much towards the explanation of the properties of air. He was counsellor to the elector of Brandenburg, and burgomaster of Magdeburg; b...
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GUERICKE
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GUERNSEY, an island belonging to Great Britain, on the coast of France, being only twenty-five miles from Cape La Hogue, and thirty-five from Cherbourg, whereas it is nearly sixty from Portland, the nearest point in England, and 104 from Southampton, whence the packets usually sail. The south side of the island is hill...
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GUERNSEY
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GUETARIA, a town of Spain, in lat. 43.18. 30. N., in the province of Guipuscoa, with a port in the Bay of Biscay[7:11:22]. It is remarkable as the birthplace of a celebrated navigator, Don Juan Sebastian del Cano, whose statue is in the principal square. It contains 300 families.
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GUETARIA
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GUGAH, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Sinde, and district of Tatta. It stands on a hill, and is bounded on two sides by a rivulet. In the surrounding country there are some large trees, and the soil is remarkably fertile. The town has not much trade, but is well supplied with provisions. The country is low, an...
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GUGAH
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GUIANA, or Guyana, a large district of South America, in which the British, the Dutch, and the French, have considerable settlements. This name was formerly given to the whole of that vast tract of country which lies between the great rivers Orinoco and Amazons, but the extent of the country distinguished by the name o...
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GUIANA
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GUIBERT, Jacques-Antoine-Hippolite, Count de, a well-known writer on tactics, was born at Montauban, on the 12th of November 1743. Before he had completed his fourteenth year, he accompanied to Germany his father, who acted as major-general to the army commanded by Marshal de Broglie, and he served, either as captain i...
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GUIBERT
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GUICCIARDINI, Francisco, a celebrated Italian historian, was born at Florence in 1482, being descended of a family which still subsists in that city. His ancestors had held the most distinguished offices in the Florentine republic. Simon Zanuccio Guicciardini was gonfalonier of justice in 1302; his grandfather, an able...
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GUICCIARDINI
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GUIDES, in military language, are usually the country people in the neighbourhood of an encampment, who give the army intelligence concerning the country, the state of the roads, and the probable route of the enemy.
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GUIDES
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GUIDI, Alexander, an eminent Italian poet, born at Pavia in 1650. Having a desire to see Rome, he repaired to that city, where he attracted the notice of Queen Christina of Sweden, who retained him at her court; he also obtained a considerable benefice from Pope Innocent XI. and a pension from the Duke of Parma. Having...
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GUIDI
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GUIDO Aretin. See Aretin. Guido Rem, an illustrious Italian painter, born at Bologna in 1595. In his early years he was the disciple of Denis Calvert, a Flemish master of good reputation; but afterwards entered himself in the school of the Caracci. He first imitated LudovicoCaracci, but fixed at last on a peculiar styl...
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GUIDO
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GUIDON, a sort of flag or standard borne by the king’s life-guard; being broad at one extremity, almost pointed at the other, and slit or divided into two parts. The guidon is the ensign or flag of a troop of horse-guards. Guidon also denotes the officer who bears the guidon. The guidon is in the horse-guards what the...
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GUIDON
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GUIGLIANO, a city of the province of Terra di Lavore, in the kingdom of Naples, containing 7956 inhabitants.
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GUIGLIANO
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GUIGNAN, the most easterly of the Philippine Islands, situated about eighteen miles off the south-eastern extremity of the island of Samar.
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GUIGNAN
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GUIGNES, Joseph de, a learned orientalist, born at Pontoise on the 19th of October 1721, was, in 1736, placed under the celebrated Fourmont by his cousin Μ. le Vaillant, professor in the university. Being endowed with the happiest dispositions, and directed by an able master, he, in a short time, acquired a knowledge o...
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GUIGNES
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GUILD (from the Saxon guildane, to pay), signifies a fraternity or company, because every one was gildare, that is, to pay something towards the charge and support of the company. As to the original of these guilds or companies, it was a law amongst the Saxons, that every freeman of fourteen years of age should find su...
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GUILD
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GUILDFORD, a market-town of the county of Surrey, in the hundred of Woking, thirty miles from London. It is situated on the acclivity of a hill, at the foot of which the navigable river Wye runs. It is composed of three parishes, St Mary, St Nicholas, and Trinity, each of which has its respective church. One of the anc...
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GUILDFORD
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GUILLIM, John, of Welsh extraction, was born in Herefordshire about, the year 1565. Having completed his education at Brazen-nose College, Oxford, he became a member of the College of Arms in London; and he was made rouge-croix pursuivant, in which post he died in 1621. He published, in 1610, a work entitled the Displa...
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GUILLIM
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GUILLOTINE, the name of an instrument for beheading persons condemned to death, so called after the persor who suggested the employment of it, Joseph Ignace Guillotin, a physician of Paris. Elected a member of the states [7:11:29]general, Guillotin conducted himself with moderation in the National Assembly, occupying h...
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GUILLOTINE
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GUIMARAS, one of the Philippine Islands, about thirty miles in circumference, covered with trees, and producing a quantity of sarsaparilla. Long. 122. 30. E. Lat. 40. 45. N.
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GUIMARAS
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GUIMARAENS, a town of Portugal, on the small river Ave, in the province of Entre-Duero-e-Minho. It is distinguished by its manufactures of linens, from which they produce damask table-linen and napkins of very beautiful descriptions, and make the best of their sewing thread. It has also fabrics of swords and cutlery, w...
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GUIMARAENS
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GUINEA, the name assigned to a large tract of country on the west coast of Africa, commencing at Cape Mesurado, in 10° 45' west longitude, and terminating with the river Lagos, in about 5° east longitude. Limits different from these are occasionally assigned to Guinea, but the above are those adopted by the best geogra...
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GUINEA
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GUIPUZCOA, oneof those three provinces in the northeast part of Spain distinguished by the name of Provincias Vascongadas, and the easternmost of the three. It is bounded by France on the east, where the Bidasoa separates the two kingdoms; on the north it is on the seacoast of the Bay of Biscay; its eastern boundary is...
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GUIPUZCOA
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GUISBOROUGH. See Gisborough.
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GUISBOROUGH
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GUISE, Henry, of Lorrain, duke of Guise, eldest son of François of Lorrain, duke of Guise, memorable in the history of France as a gallant officer, but an imperious, turbulent, seditious subject, who placed himself at the head of an armed force, and called his rebel band The League. The plan was formed by the cardinal,...
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GUISE
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GUITAR, Guitarra, a musical instrument of the stringed kind, with five double rows of strings, of which those made of brass are in the middle, except it be for the burden, an octave lower than the fourth. This instrument was first used in Spain and by the Italians. In the former country it is still greatly in vogue. Th...
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GUITAR
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GUJERAT, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Lahore, in the Seik territories, 60 miles north-north-west from the city of Lahore. Long. 73. 25. E. Lat. 32. 35. N. Gujerat, Gajrat, or Guzerat, a very large province of Hindustan, situated principally between the twenty-first and twenty-fourth degrees of north latitud...
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32 35' N 73 25' E
GUJERAT
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GUJUNDERGUR, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Bejapoor, capital of a district of the same name, which is situated principally between the 15th and 16th degrees of north latitude. It is sixty miles east by north from Darwar. Long. 75. 56. E. Lat. 15. 45. N.
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15 45' N 75 56' E
GUJUNDERGUR
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GOLDENSTAEDT, John Anthony, physician and naturalist, was born at Riga on the 26th of April 1745, received the rudiments of his education in that town, and in 1763 was admitted into the medical college of Berlin. He completed his studies at Frankfort-upon-the-Oder, and in 1767 took the degree of doctor of physic in tha...
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GOLDENSTAEDT
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GULE of August, the day of St Peter ad vincula, which is celebrated on the first of August. It is called the pule of August, from the Latin gula, a throat, because one Quirinus, a tribune, having a daughter with a disease in her throat, went to Pope Alexander, the sixth in succession from St Peter, and desired of him t...
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GULE
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GULES, in Heraldry, a corruption of the French word gueles, which in this science signifies red, and is represented in engraving by perpendicular lines. See Heraldry.
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GULES
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GULF, or Gulph, a broad and capacious bay comprehended between two promontories, and sometimes taking the name of sea when it is very extensive, but particularly when it only communicates with the sea by means of a strait. The word comes from the French golfe, and that [7:11:34]again from the Italian golfo, which has t...
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GULF
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GULGUNDAH, a town of Hindustan, in the, Northern Circars, district of Vizagapatam, seventy miles west by south from Vizagapatam. Long. 82. 20. E. Lat. 17. 35. N.
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17 35' N 82 20' E
GULGUNDAH
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GUM (Gummi) is a concrete vegetable juice, of no particular smell or taste, but which becomes viscous and tenacious when moistened with water; totally dissolves in water into a liquid, more or less glutinous in proportion to the quantity of the gum; is not affected by vinous spirits or oils; burns in the fire to a blac...
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GUM
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GUMMIPOLLAM, a town of Hindustan, in the district of Gurrumcondah, a hundred and fifty miles west by north from Madras. Long. 78. 19. E. Lat. 13. ’ 46. N.
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GUMMIPOLLAM
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GUMBINNEN, a government or circle in the province of East Prussia, a part of which was taken from Lithuania, lt extends over 6512 square miles, and contains nineteen oities, thirteen market-towns, ninety-four parishes, and 2954 hamlets, with 46,882 dwellings. The inhabitants in 1817 amounted to 36,480, of whom 6370 wer...
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GUMBINNEN
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GUMS, in Anatomy, the hard fleshy substance in either aw, through which the teeth spring from the jaw-bone.
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GUMS
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GUN. The word gun includes most of the species of fire-arms; pistols and mortars being almost the only ones excepted from this denomination. They are divided into τreat and small guns; the former including what we commonly call cannon, ordnance, or artillery; the latter muskets, carabines, musketoons, blunderbusses, fo...
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GUN
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GUNDARA, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Gujerat, the capital of a district of the same name, tributary to the Mahrattas. Long. 73. 34. E. Lat. 22. 53. N.
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22 53' N 73 34' E
GUNDARA
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GUNDEZAMA River, a small river which, after a short course, falls into the Bay of Bengal at Montapilly, and forms the boundary between the Carnatic and the Guntoor Circar.
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GUNDEZAMA
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GUNDUCK, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Bejapoor, in a district of the same name, forty-seven miles east from Darwar. Long. 75. 42. E. Lat. 15. 27. N. It is also the name of a river, the source of which is said to be situated to the northward of Mooktenath, in the direction of Moostang, a place of note in Uppe...
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15 27' N 75 42' E
GUNDUCK
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GUNDGOLE, a town of Hindustan, in the Northern Circars, and district of Ellore, forty-eight miles north by east from Masulipatam. Long. 16. 20. E. Lat. 16. 49. N.
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16 49' N 16 20' E
GUNDGOLE
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GUNGAPATAM, a town of Hindustan, in the Carnatic, a hundred and eight miles north from Madras. Long. 79. 13. E. Lat. 14. 27. N.
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GUNGAPATAM